There is a joke I always love to use when I train my new sales team, or when I want to help my associates get the picture of my project’s execution strategy.

-How can we eat an elephant?

-Bite after bite.

Management is all about well-organized and planned bite after bite procedure towards achieving the best results. A manager’s main concern should be to analyze his/her project , locate the parameters of critical importance to the project’s outcome, its sectors and sub-sectors and evaluate the total time needed for its completion.

Once completion-time is set, prioritization follows. In other words, which things have to be done first and which have to follow and at what sequence or synchronization. When actions get categorized and set in their own distinct time-frames the most important phase of all is to judge who can perform better than anyone else at which position, before role-sharing.

There are lots of books, seminars, conferences and articles on leadership management and on leadership’s major role in effective management strategies. Actually what a leader has to achieve is to “inspire” his team and make them share his vision making it part of their own personal vision , so they can exceed themselves and out-perform competitors attaining the ultimate degree of self-motivation.

To make your team see your vision , you must actually have one. If not, you should help yourself see where a perfect management overall should lead you. Then, having a private conversation with each and everyone of your team should try to filtrate the clues of their character that match better to a certain sector or sub-sector of your project’s realization.

Once you both agree that dealing with that sector is what would make your collaborator happier, you can then step forward motivating him/her using your vision and enthusiasm tailored to his/her particular dreams or goals, and incorporating the project’s realization results to his/her life in terms of financial gains etc.

After completing the cycle of private conversations and motivation, you can arrange a full-team meeting where all will have the opportunity to interact and visualize together the benefits of getting their things done as a team. It’s now your turn to motivate the team reinforcing their sense of togetherness and appealing to their instincts of competitiveness compared to their peers or antagonists.

You can stress the advantage of the leverage a well-blended and organized team has as opposed to a non motivated one. You can pay attention to each one’s special traits praising them in front of the whole team and cultivate stronger bonds and higher moral by announcing the very good impression or opinion one has for the other as it has been manifested to you on various random incidents.

When people come together for any reason, there’s nothing more important than positive psychology. You can count on that factor and make it work for your team and you. Results will be amazing.

Every person craves for recognition and praise. Be the non-conventional Manager who gets things done using the weapons of persuasion , recognition and praise instead of pushing stressing and pressing your team. There is something magic in smile and good positive attitude that tends to multiply results and create momentum that cant be tracked by conventional measures.

Perhaps it’s a sort of chemistry, perhaps is something that works on another spiritual influence level …but it works no matter how we name it. And it is a surefire way to eat the elephant.

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