What are effective Motivational Interviewing team building strategies for a shared vision and purpose?

2 How to create a shared vision and purpose?

Creating a shared vision and purpose can inspire your team to work together, overcome obstacles, and celebrate successes. To achieve this, you can use MI strategies such as asking team members to share their individual visions and purposes for their work. Reflect back to summarize the common themes, goals, and values that emerge. Invite your team to collaborate and draft a statement that is SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). Review and refine the statement with your team before communicating it regularly. Use the statement as a guide for your team's actions, decisions, and evaluations.

3 How to enhance team performance?

Team performance is the extent to which your team meets or exceeds its objectives, standards, and expectations. This can be influenced by factors like skills, roles, resources, communication, feedback, and recognition. To boost team performance, you can employ the following MI strategies. Ask your team to identify and share their individual and collective strengths, skills, and resources. Reflect back and summarize what you hear from them, emphasizing their assets and capabilities and how they complement each other. Invite your team to set and review their individual and collective goals using the SMART criteria while linking them to the team's vision and purpose. Provide regular and constructive feedback with affirmations praising their efforts and achievements while using open-ended questions and reflections to explore their challenges. Finally, recognize and reward your team's performance with tangible or intangible incentives such as bonuses, certificates, appreciation or opportunities for growth and development.

4 How to foster team cohesion?

Team cohesion is the degree to which team members feel connected, supported, and committed to each other and to the team's vision and purpose. To foster team cohesion, you can ask your team to express and share their individual and collective values, beliefs, and attitudes. You can also reflect back and summarize what you hear from your team members, highlighting similarities and differences. Additionally, invite your team to participate in various team-building activities, such as icebreakers or games. Furthermore, encourage your team to communicate frequently and effectively using various channels and modes. Finally, support your team's self-efficacy and autonomy by empowering them to make decisions and take actions with the necessary support and resources. Team cohesion can enhance performance, satisfaction, and well-being.

5 How to deal with team resistance?

Team resistance can be a hindrance to your team's progress and performance, and it can stem from fear, uncertainty, doubt, or disagreement. To address this issue, you can use MI strategies such as asking your team to explore and share their concerns, feelings, and perspectives. Reflect back and summarize what they say, expressing empathy and curiosity. Invite them to examine the pros and cons of change and status quo, affirming their strengths and abilities in the process. Finally, provide them with options, information, and resources that can help them overcome their barriers and achieve their goals.

6 Here’s what else to consider

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