 Managers, put your team before yourself to gain rapid promotion. This may sound a little counter-intuitive, yet your performance is judged on your team's performance. Those managers who consistently get promoted put their teams before themselves because it is a very effective way to progress your management career quickly. Putting others before yourself is a brilliant way to inspire team members to reach for new heights. Secondly, to effortlessly gain respect and admiration from your team. And third, to have team members literally falling over themselves to help you achieve team goals. Great people managers know using timeless group and social rules, like reciprocity, increases team performance far more than using the power of their position. Employees will work far harder and far better when they want to, compared to being told to or forced to through fear. Team performance matters a lot to get on the fast track for promotion. Managers and leaders create the most value through their teams. The bigger your positive impact on team performance, the faster your promotion. Put your team before yourself to create the biggest positive impact you can and gain rapid promotion in the process. Effective managers that put their team before themselves are not looking to win popularity points, nor are they insecure and looking for an ego boost, nor are they soft on problem individuals, nor the problems the team faces. Putting the team before yourself is the most effective way of increasing team performance that I've seen employed after working in many world-class companies. Those that incorporate a team-first approach get promoted faster than those that don't. So let's talk more about how to put the team before yourself to be a very effective manager and leader. I'm covering firstly your attitudes communicated to all. Secondly, using power well puts you on the fast track for promotion. Third, focus on helping your team before pleasing your boss. And fourth, five ways to leverage your time. Put your team first and gain rapid promotion. When your team is outperforming their peers, it is a very compelling decision for bosses to add more people to your team. You gain rapid promotion because your team members and the team overall performs at a higher level than their peers. Use all the practical tips shared so you can start putting these concepts into practice quickly and get the benefits as quickly as possible. My name is Jess Coles, and if you're new here in Hanstock Training Shares, people management expertise, resources and courses teaching you how to build higher performing teams. I've included links to additional videos and resources in the description below, as well as the video timestamps, so do take a look at these. And if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. Cultivating a positive attitude towards your team is so important as a manager or leader to increase teams' performance. Your success as a manager or leader is dependent on those that work for you. Your management mindset has a big impact on team members' motivation and performance. How many teams do you know that don't like coming to work, fear their boss and still deliver amazing results? I haven't come across any. Your attitude towards the people you manage is communicated to all around you. As a leader, you are inescapably in the spotlight. Each team member is watching you, judging how you behave, the decisions you make and the actions you take and working out how this will impact them. We have all been practising these observation skills since birth. Whether consciously or unconsciously, we all know which leaders we trust and which ones we really don't. We know which leaders care about their staff and which ones don't. We know which ones are interested in us as individuals and which ones see us as a means to an end, or that managing is a necessary evil of their role. Reciprocity is an incredibly powerful group behaviour to tap into. The more time and effort you put into helping your team, supporting your team, training and coaching your team, removing problems that they're experiencing, guiding them and coordinating their activities, the more you'll be admired, trusted, appreciated and valued for what you bring to each of your team members. They all feel obliged to give back through working harder, learning to work better and being more team focused. Put your team before yourself and you tap into a brilliant way to serve your own interests and get rapid promotion. Next, we're going to talk about power. Using PowerWell puts you on the fast track for promotion. When you're asked to lead others, you are being given power. The power that comes with a job title and a position within an organisation. How you use this power defines how people will respond to you, how they will trust you and whether they will willingly follow you. Human culture is littered with stories. The villains of these stories use their power to serve themselves. They use power to gain more power, to gain personal wealth, to keep others down and to defend their privileged positions. The heroes of these stories use their powers to help others, to defend others, to make others' lives easier and better. Heroes don't use their power for personal gain. The heroes are remembered, respected, admired and celebrated. The villains really are. It takes a lot of courage to use power to put others first in our very competitive workplaces. You know, a very real fear is, if I help those around me to get ahead, to get better and to deliver more, won't it be harder for me to get ahead personally? In nearly all cases, a team outperforms a group of individuals. Use your power to help solve problems impacting the team. Protect the team from unhelpful requests, power plays and politics with your influence. Work to get the right resources in place for your team members to do a great job. Use your power to build a positive, enjoyable and results-focused environment to work in. Actively use your power to help everyone in the team be better. Putting your team before yourself in how you use your power is a brilliant way to encourage all your team members to follow your example. A key ingredient to create high-performing teams. The better your team performs, the faster you are promoted. Third, focus on helping your team before pleasing your boss. Your relationship with your boss is the most important relationship you have at work in terms of your personal and professional success and gaining rapid promotion. You're actively worked to make your relationship with your boss as positive as possible. Pleasing your boss is an important part of building a positive relationship and getting promoted. It is very easy to get sucked into focusing more time looking upwards and pleasing your boss rather than looking downwards to your team to increase their wellbeing and performance. If your team is not performing, is unhappy, has high staff attrition, is causing problems that impact into the wider business, et cetera, how pleased is your boss gonna be with you? Not very. Poor team performance will cause them a lot more headaches and undo all the good work you've put in to pleasing your boss. Focus on helping your team before pleasing your boss. It both are super important to gain rapid promotion. Great team performance will please your boss as well as a lot of the other managers in the business that have a say in your promotion. Keeping your boss happy and keeping your team happy and performing is a careful balancing act. Focus on helping your team before pleasing your boss. Work hard on both to get rapid promotion. Now I'm covering five ways to leverage your time, put your team first and gain rapid promotion. You only have so much time available to you, even if you work really long days. The more you can use your time to increase the productivity and performance of your team, the more value your efforts will create as a manager. Creating a 5% productivity game across the team is a lot more valuable than a 10% personal gain in productivity. The team will be a lot closer to reaching the goals and certainly creating a lot more value for the business. A very good reason to put your team before yourself in where you focus your time. Five key ways for any manager to leverage their time and gain rapid promotion as a result are, firstly set clear direction and goals for the team and each person within the team. Clear direction within a team creates a compounding effect with the effort put in by each team member. i.e. two plus two equals five in many cases. Clear direction massively reduces wasted effort as well. Also work within your team to plan out how the goals agreed are going to be reached. A clear path also saves the team a lot of time. Secondly, work on creating a team environment where team members trust each other, work to support and help each other, communicate openly and honestly. You're in short, work as a team and share success. And lead by example, praise and encourage positive behaviors, decisions and actions in the team and stop negative behaviors, decisions and actions quickly to encourage the right team environment. Third, actively look for and remove as many problems as possible that negatively impact the team. Think people, processes and systems. People problems, from communication, relationships, expectation management, behaviors, et cetera are the trickiest. Be diplomatic and handle the conflict quickly and neutrally. Fourth, get comfortable with saying no to lower value work and tasks so that you can focus your team on the most important tasks, activities and projects for business success. This will significantly improve your team's performance and you'll get rapid promotion much easier. Fifth, invest your time in looking for automation opportunities across the team. Hear from small Excel hacks through to software systems to replace repetitive tasks. Actively looking for opportunities to help your team become more productive is a great way of putting your team before yourself and significantly improves team performance. This is a great way to increase the value you add to the business and get rapid promotion. So in summary, as a manager put your team before yourself and you'll be serving your best interests alongside those of the team in the business, a true win, win, win. Leaders and managers add the most value to a business through improving the performance of their teams. Actively looking for ways to help your team is a great way to leverage your time and create greater amounts of value for the business. The more value you create, the faster you get promoted. To put your team before yourself, we have covered. Firstly, your attitude is communicated to all around you. Secondly, using power well puts you on the fast track for promotion for all the right reasons. Third, focus on helping your team before pleasing your boss. Fourth, five ways to leverage your time. Put your team first and gain rapid promotion. If you have any questions about managers, put your team before yourself and gain rapid promotion. Please leave them in the comment section below and I'll get back to you. Thanks very much for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.