Jim Johnson, head coach at Contractor Coach Pro, shares how to inspire teams in family, sales, or business settings. He focuses on two core strategies: creating a clear vision and understanding what motivates each person individually.
Hi, I'm Jim Johnson, the head coach here at Contractor Coach Pro with this week's two minute drill. And this week we want to talk about inspiration and inspiring your team. Whether you're a father or a mother of your family, you need to inspire your family to do great things. Maybe you're a salesman, you can inspire the rest of your team around you, or you're a sales manager and you need to inspire that sales team, or you're an owner and you need to inspire, inspire your overall team. How do you go about doing that? It's one of those things I see as we coach our one on one clients that they struggle with this inspiration to get people to do things that might not have been something they would have normally done before. And so one of the best ways to do that is to come up with a vision. Like I have this vision that this is what things are going to be and you can paint that picture, grab everybody together, get them into a meeting and say, hey, I've got an idea. And this idea is this. And this is how we're going to get there, this is when we're going to get there, and this is what you can expect if we get there. So it's how are we going to do it, what are we going to do? It's how long is it going to take? And then what's in it for me? And that's what you have to remember to inspire a team. They have to understand what's in it for them. So whether it's a contest that you're going to run for a week and if they meet certain criteria, they're going to get this thing or it's a year long goal that you're after, that if you achieve this goal, not only do they earn their commissions, but this other cool thing is going to happen. It's going to change their lives. Sitting down with people and painting that picture with them individually is a great way to inspire people to sit down and say, who do you really want to be? How great do you want to be? We have a tendency to be blessed with gifts. We all have our own gifts. And if we take those gifts and we don't do anything with them, we're truthfully failing ourselves. And so we have a responsibility as human beings that when we're given these gifts, to take those gifts and then use them to their fullest, to take them and make them a part of who you are. Share them with the other people around you. And by sharing those and giving freely, you will get more return than you can ever expect. It's one of the things that made a big difference in my life is to realize that the more I give, the more I get return. Think about that as you start to inspire your team. So thank you for joining us with this week's two minute drill. If you like what you're seeing and you want to see more and get access to all of our two minute drills, go check out contractorcoachpro.com click on the join Free button, put in your information, it's just your name and your email. Super simple to do. And it'll give you access to all of our two minute drills. I believe there's over 80 of them. There's also all of our weekly huddles, which I believe there's somewhere in the 70 range of those. And then our training camp. There's over 220 hours of everything and anything you could ever imagine about selling more, marketing better, managing better, leading your team better and owning a business and getting better at what you do. So hopefully you like what you've seen here today and check us out a little bit. We'd love to see you at Contractor Coach Pro. Thank you for joining us for this week's two minute drill.
