What bigger picture?

Seeing past your immediate team will enable a wide variety of views for that bigger picture. For your product line, your company, and ultimately back to your team.

Aligning your team towards the bigger picture will only better help you and your team see where the company is heading.

When this view is vague or obscure, motivation and trust in your own leadership will be low if nominal at all. However matching ones personal development goals and objectives with the bigger company goals is very difficult so it must be broken down. Let’s try a safety product...

A hardware engineer designs a circuit, an acu, that will go into a vehicle supporting the safety systems. In designing this circuit he improved his CAD skills, analysis skills in ensuring all needed worst case conditions were met, communication skills in meeting with other engineers and management for reviews and other non engineering groups for cooperation. Learning the value of cost reductions, reliability and quality for example. All of these ultimately will contribute to a safer world, saving lives.

The employee’s overall growth and contribution will contribute to the company goal of preventing future crashes which in turn would mean saving lives. 

Seeing the connection from the workers up to the bigger almost ominous company goals creates connections. It connects the employee to the company and creates pride for both.   

When an employee has pride in their work it creates a satisfied employee which in turn improves overall team morale and happiness. 

This sense of satisfaction and happiness is memorable and appealing for both the team internally and externally. This can only lead to a better product and company.