Original source: Carson Heady
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If your team's performance is stalling, the transcript of the morning standup may be more diagnostic than the pipeline report. What leaders say — and celebrate — sets the ceiling.
Celebrating Small Wins, Not Criticising Shortfalls, Drove a Call Center Team's Best Day of the Month
During a struggling month at a call center managing 800 campaigns annually, Heady abandoned a pattern of public criticism and instead opened a morning standup with music, applause, and recognition of individual contributors doing well — without even deploying the team's most lucrative leads. The result was the best sales day of the month. The reality is, the environment shifted before a single variable in the pipeline did.
The principle scales beyond any one team. There is a direct correlation between the atmosphere a leader intentionally constructs and the output that follows — and accountability for that atmosphere sits entirely with the person at the top.
"We're not meant to be the hero. We're the hero makers. We exist to go out and find people that we can put into positions to win."
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