Humanize Your Leadership Style in 4 Steps
This process helps to serve your team member’s motivations and build trustworthy relationships based on the empathy and understanding of the human motivating forces.
Lead a team is a difficult task. Leadership requires a huge amount of skills, starting by managing oneself, having the right intentions or demonstrated knowledge relative to the job position we are developing. Understanding human motivation forces, empathizing and genuinely acting to serve our team member’s motivations will humanize our leadership style. In the next sections, we will explore a process that helped me in this humanizing process, understanding and serving my team's motivations as a driver to build mutual trust.
1 — Understand the motivations
Every one of us has a different life purpose, motivations, and goals that drive where we spend our time. Or at least should drive it if we want to have good mental health and be fulfilled with the life we are living. Motivations move humans to behave and put their time on specific jobs to do in their day to day tasks.
As a leader, one of the most critical tasks is to identify what are the motivations of our team members. Firstly to see if the motivations…
