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Teams don’t care about
emotion
Put heart and soul into

your team

In this global society in which we work, we tend to first learn about
such things as business operations, finance, marketing strategy, produc-
tions, customer service, and so on. That can mean that as managers we
sometimes neglect the fact that, at their very core, organizations are
about people and the relationships they develop in working together.
It’s the people and the teams they create that turn individual
employees into a community of people working together to achieve
individual and shared goals. And it’s because managers care about their
people that this actually becomes possible. There’s a saying that goes:
“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you
care.” Why? Because when you care about your employees, you create
an atmosphere where they care about you and about each other. It turns
on their motivation to perform well and to want to improve.
If you genuinely care about your employees and show them, you’ll
be meeting their basic need to be cared about. You’ll be motivating
them with heart and soul. And it’s that special feeling of reassurance
that will help them find greater motivation to work harder and smarter.
Inspire motivated teamwork: Making a difference and collaborating
with others to achieve a goal are two of the most powerful motivators
for accomplishing challenging work. Put these two things together
and you have the potential for a high-performing team. Do all you

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