Motivating and engaging teams in the new normal …is just like the old normal.

Key concepts;

The pandemic has brought forward the need to adopt 21st century leadership practices

Engagement and motivation relies on a sense of purpose, mastery and autonomy

Now is the time to equip your organisation with those capabilities

No one could have predicted what 2020 has brought upon us and there is much talk about the “new normal” and what that means for individuals and teams and how “work” gets done. The change in work environments, the need to focus and pivot to immediate concerns (i.e. Covid-19) and then the ongoing need to maintain operational efficiency and focus might seem somewhat alien to us, but they shouldn’t.

If you step back and take a look at the trends, the pandemic has actually in many was hastened the movement to distributed teams, fast-reacting organisations and goals that align to patient/people outcomes along with the operational efficiency needed to achieve those goals. These are all 21st century leadership best practices and health organisations worldwide are being forced to adopt them at speed, and I think that’s a good thing.

This recent HBR article talks about how to motivate and engage a team during the new normal and the basic needs essentially follow what Dan Pink has been talking about for over a decade — individuals and teams need purpose, autonomy and mastery.

The tools, frameworks and processes to motivate and engage your team haven’t changed, put more simply the new normal has forced organisations to move quicker to this state due to the challenges that come with a distributed workforce, the uncertainty a pandemic brings and the need to skill up so everyone can contribute using their own skill sets.

If you haven’t done an introspection to understand if you and your team are equipped to succeed then now is the time. Strategic planning sessions are typically coming up in the next few months across the healthcare sector and the need for a visible strategy, meaningful connections to individual work and autonomy across the organisation is more needed than ever. Sow the seeds now to reap the rewards throughout the year and far into the new normal.

CureVentus enables healthcare organisations to focus on patient outcomes. This is achieved by aligning teams to organisational objectives and equipping everyone with the ability to autonomously contribute to those objectives. To read more head over to the website.