{"id":167696,"date":"2025-09-05T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factorialhr.com\/blog\/factorial-play\/videos\/the-million-dollar-question-how-do-you-keep-yourself-and-your-team-motivated\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:12:23","slug":"how-do-you-keep-yourself-and-your-team-motivated","status":"publish","type":"factorial_video","link":"https:\/\/factorialhr.co.uk\/blog\/factorial-play\/videos\/how-do-you-keep-yourself-and-your-team-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"The million-dollar question: How do you keep yourself and your team motivated?"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_video_type":"highlight","_related_series":167174,"_related_episode":167176,"_related_season":0,"_video_source":"vimeo","_youtube_video_id":"","_vimeo_video_id":"1113215538","_speaker_id":167136,"_video_description":"Effective leadership hinges on understanding and motivating your team while maintaining alignment with company goals. Xavier Virgili emphasizes the importance of recognizing individual motivations and professional aspirations, advocating for strong communication and transparency in team dynamics. Leaders should foster an environment where team members can take risks, make decisions, and celebrate achievements, both big and small. To avoid demotivating staff, he suggests leaders reflect on three critical questions: what they excel at, what they are passionate about, and what sacrifices they are willing to make for their career goals. This approach not only strengthens team management and communication but also aligns with company values and career planning. According to Xavier Virgili, genuine self-reflection leads to sound decision-making and a motivated workforce. Don\u2019t miss more tips and insights on effective leadership in the full episode.","_video_transcription":"00:09 - Let's see what we have here. A compass.The million-dollar question.\n00:15 - How can you keep your team and yourself motivated without losing sight of your goals?\n00:22 - How do you keep the team motivated?It is extremely important to understand what motivates them, what is important to them,What are your professional goals?\n00:34 - What are your personal goals?How can you positively impact them?\n00:39 - And here's something my current boss does very well, which is ask a lot of questions to understand how your personal life links to your professional situation.\n00:53 - And there's another thing he does very well, which is trying to get ahead of himself to your needs.\n01:00 - And that, when you have a leader who tries to do this with you,it's crazy, because it's super, super, super cool.\n01:08 - That point of understanding people is important.And then, obviously, you have to give them management autonomy,leadership skills, ability to make mistakes, decision-making.\n01:17 - The worst thing you can do to motivate someone is to give them mixed signals,when decisions have already been made.\n01:23 - That kills any leader you have below you.And then there is the matter of creating an environment of transparency,openness, protection,where any topic can be discussed.\n01:37 - That makes the relationship flow in a way that it doesn't flow in other circumstances.\n01:43 - But if we talk about not losing sight of our goals, in the end,it's about achieving them.set goals that are ambitious enough to take people out of their comfort zone.\n01:58 - In other words, they cannot be objectives that can be maintained or feel comfortable reaching.\n02:04 - And at the same time, they can't be goals that are so crazy that they don't see the possibility or how to get there.\n02:13 - But if we're talking about keeping the team motivated, then the team has to be kept motivated.\n02:16 - Motivated, with a clear vision of where they are going.\n02:19 - You have to keep him motivated by celebrating victories.of the big ones and the small ones.\n02:25 - Let the team know that they are doing a good job.It's important.\n02:28 - For me, it's much more important to discuss how not to demotivate people.\n02:33 - And there's one thing I haven't told you, or that I haven't told you all, which is:There are things that I have kept to myself throughout my professional life,things that have happened to me that could have really discouraged people and I have them saved because someday I plan to write a book,which will be titled,\"How not to demotivate your team. 100 things you should avoid doing.\" In my life, there have been times when I wasn't sure about where to go or which way to go.\n03:00 - And for me, those three questions helped me the most.\n03:03 - The first question is: What are you good at?There's something you're in the top 1% of the world at, for sure.\n03:12 - The second thing is: what do you like?Are you passionate about it?\n03:16 - What is it that makes you wake up in the morning and say, \"Wow,I really love this\"?\n03:21 - And the third is: Where do you want to go?And that goes hand in hand with a second part of that question, which is:\"What are you willing to sacrifice?\" Or invest to get there?\" You have to answer them genuinely, and then every so often you have to start reflecting.\n03:40 - Asking yourself questions and answering them honestly allows you to make decisions.decisions without remorse.\n03:47 - For me, it's extremely important to be able to sleep peacefully every night with the decisions you make, and you can only do this if you are honest with yourself.\n03:58 - And if you tell people the truth, because if you don't,Having to remember lies every day is too complicated.\n04:03 - And these reflections are not just two-minute reflections.\n04:06 - It's not an action-reaction like the decisions you make every day.\n04:11 - You need to create a different context.Otherwise, it won't work.","_has_trailer":false,"_trailer_vimeo_id":""},"categories":[991,993],"factorial-categories":[],"class_list":["post-167696","factorial_video","type-factorial_video","status-publish","hentry","category-leadership-insights-en-gb","category-team-growth-en-gb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe million-dollar question: How do you keep yourself and your team motivated? | Factorial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover effective ways to boost your motivation and your team\u2019s while staying focused on your goals. 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