How can you show team members that you value and support them?

Valuing anyone starts with ‘listening’, whether it is a perspective, upcoming challenges or new ideas, even if you disagree listening and acknowledging plays an important role. When you make your team members feel that they are heard, they get the confidence and motivation to add more value. When it comes to support, it is important to recognise their contribution even when the desired result is not achieved, most importantly standing by them when things don’t go well and provide constructive feedback. Often we focus on results and not the situation and journey that goes along. Introspection and working together on lessons learnt sets the foundation of a winning team.

As humans, we all have a need to be acknowledged for our contributions. We need to be careful that the type of acknowledgement suits the individual. Some people like to be publicly acknowledged, while others prefer a simple acknowledgement from the individual involved.

I agree, also never belittle or mock their contributions (As long as they are doing their tasks competently and completely). Each person has different perspective and education. A true leader would show you how to do the job and help you with it.

In Startups your work is multidimensional where each day brings in a new challenge and your role may involve cruising through a lot of things on a single day.In such a setup it is important that your team supports you -I've encountered several instances where a supportive team environment significantly boosted productivity and morale. In one instance one of our Policy ‘iDC Cultivate’ which is an upskilling policy- was created after getting feedback from our people that they want to learn different skills. This showed genuine care for their growth and involving them directly in the decision making process boosted morale and as a result of which we got one of our highest scores of eNPS during that time.

Montrez votre appréciation en offrant régulièrement des retours positifs, en écoutant activement les idées et préoccupations, en investissant dans le développement professionnel, en fournissant un soutien lors des défis et en célébrant les réussites. Ces actions renforcent la confiance, créent un environnement de travail positif et démontrent un engagement envers le bien-être et la croissance de chaque membre de l'équipe.

Depending on who you work with paraphrasing is not the solution. It may come across as you not wanting to hear, what is being said, so you paraphrase into something quite different

And walk the talk. Be an active member in the employee resource groups. Learn, what minorities are actually up against! ... do not paraphrase that into your white-male-point-of-view

Making sure you model the behaviors you want to support- take vacation and PTO. Encourage healthy boundary setting. Make work fun. Be supportive and nurture trust.