{"id":16859,"date":"2019-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:00:00","slug":"how-not-to-motivate-your-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to Motivate Your Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <!-- .post-meta --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Getting a team working at the maximum of its potential is a manager&#x2019;s primary role and a very tough one. So it&#x2019;s not surprising that a lot of management literature talks about motivation tips and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/six-characteristics-of-high-performing-teams\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">creating high performing teams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Sometimes though it can be the things we do without thinking, rather than what we are not doing that is creating problems. Here we are going to look at how to motivate your team by addressing negative habits and cultures that could be dragging down performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg\" alt height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Public shows of discontent<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are many motivation tips for correctly showing concern at team or individual performance, which can escalate relevant to necessity. One practice on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/teams\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how to motivate your team<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which is never recommended however is calling out an individual in front of their peers. This is mean and embarrassing and likely to inspire discord rather than higher production. Similarly, attacking a whole team when it is only a few members who are not pulling their weight will also serve to demotivate everyone involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Micro-managing and over-reviewing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All managers can be prone to micro-managing at times, it&#x2019;s a nearly unavoidable result of having overall responsibility, you want to make sure everything is perfect. Problems arise, however, when this goes too far, and every piece of work gets put under the microscope. Not only does this waste your own time, but it also serves to undermine and demotivate your team, basically telling them, &#x201C;I don&#x2019;t trust that your work is up to the standards I expect&#x201D;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Guilt trips<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trying to get your team to work harder by announcing to them that you&#x2019;re pulling 16-hour days and you want them to pitch in smacks of begging for pity, rather than what it actually is, either an under-resourced project or a poorly managed one, neither of which are your team&#x2019;s fault. These guilt trips, where the manager plays the martyr, unfairly plays on the personal relationship between manager and staff, as well as trying to make the team feel guilty for only working eight hours a day, as set out in their contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content-cta\">\n<div id=\"content-cta-text\">Increase your business agility with Planview AdaptiveWork&#x2019;s project management software<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-cta-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/resource\/product-tour\/\">Take a Product Tour<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>Springing surprise changes to schedule<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it may seem that you&#x2019;re being flexible and adapting to challenges with speed, your team may not see sudden schedule changes in quite such a positive light. People plan their work, they get in the zone, they research and review information, <\/span><a href=\"\/project-schedule-overruns-how-to-prevent-delays-from-becoming-disasters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">so to suddenly shift direction and abruptly put them on something new <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">will pull them out of their rhythm. Not only does it affect their productivity it also decreases their overall comfort in a role, e.g. &#x201C;why spend time perfecting this task when I could be moved to a new team tomorrow&#x201D;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Dangling carrots<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Money motivates pretty much everyone to some degree or another and so it is a common motivational tactic for employers and managers. This is fine if it is part of a clear and balanced progression plan that has been worked out between the parties, where the team member knows what they have to do and what is expected of them. Unfortunately, many managers can use this in a negative way, such as &#x201C;If you pull that shift over the weekend it would be looked on favorably at your salary review&#x201D;, which portray their potential pay-rise as something which is dependent on doing favors, <\/span><a href=\"\/how-to-use-rewards-and-recognition-to-motivate-your-team\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which is never a good look for any manager.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"client-logo\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Siemens Energy\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/08\/siemens_energy-200x100.png\" alt=\"Siemens Energy\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"IIROC Success\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/07\/IIROC_logo-200x100.gif\" alt=\"IIROC Success\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Financial Services Institution\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/04\/FINANCIAL-SERVICES-IMG-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"Financial Services Institution\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"M Squared\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/03\/m-squared-logo-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"M Squared\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Aliancys Success\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/12\/aoc_aliancys-logo-800x400-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"Aliancys Success\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Bonfiglioli Success\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/11\/bonfiglioli_logo-800x400-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"Bonfiglioli Success\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a team working at the maximum of its potential is a manager&#x2019;s primary role and a very tough one. So it&#x2019;s not surprising that a lot of management literature talks about motivation tips and creating high performing teams. Sometimes though it can be the things we do without thinking, rather than what we are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pmo-project-management-organizations"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How NOT to Motivate Your Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are certain habits and cultures which can seem like the norm but are actually bringing your team down. Here\u2019s what to look out for.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How NOT to Motivate Your Team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are certain habits and cultures which can seem like the norm but are actually bringing your team down. Here\u2019s what to look out for.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planview Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Planview-Inc\/89422974772\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Team AdaptiveWork\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Planview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Planview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Team AdaptiveWork\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Team AdaptiveWork\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e307731bc782b0042d055366fc035e50\"},\"headline\":\"How NOT to Motivate Your Team\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\"},\"wordCount\":609,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Project Portfolio Management\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\",\"name\":\"How NOT to Motivate Your Team\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"There are certain habits and cultures which can seem like the norm but are actually bringing your team down. Here\u2019s what to look out for.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How NOT to Motivate Your Team\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/\",\"name\":\"Planview Blog\",\"description\":\"Leading the conversation on digital connected work\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Planview\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/planview-logo-black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/planview-logo-black.png\",\"width\":280,\"height\":66,\"caption\":\"Planview\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Planview-Inc\/89422974772\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/Planview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e307731bc782b0042d055366fc035e50\",\"name\":\"Team AdaptiveWork\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/author\/team-adaptivwork\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How NOT to Motivate Your Team","description":"There are certain habits and cultures which can seem like the norm but are actually bringing your team down. Here\u2019s what to look out for.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How NOT to Motivate Your Team","og_description":"There are certain habits and cultures which can seem like the norm but are actually bringing your team down. Here\u2019s what to look out for.","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/","og_site_name":"Planview Blog","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Planview-Inc\/89422974772","article_published_time":"2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Team AdaptiveWork","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Planview","twitter_site":"@Planview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Team AdaptiveWork","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/"},"author":{"name":"Team AdaptiveWork","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e307731bc782b0042d055366fc035e50"},"headline":"How NOT to Motivate Your Team","datePublished":"2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/"},"wordCount":609,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg","articleSection":["Project Portfolio Management"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/","name":"How NOT to Motivate Your Team","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg","datePublished":"2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00","description":"There are certain habits and cultures which can seem like the norm but are actually bringing your team down. Here\u2019s what to look out for.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/03\/march-3-1.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/how-not-to-motivate-your-team\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How NOT to Motivate Your Team"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/","name":"Planview Blog","description":"Leading the conversation on digital connected work","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#organization","name":"Planview","url":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/planview-logo-black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/planview-logo-black.png","width":280,"height":66,"caption":"Planview"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Planview-Inc\/89422974772","https:\/\/x.com\/Planview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e307731bc782b0042d055366fc035e50","name":"Team AdaptiveWork","url":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/author\/team-adaptivwork\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}