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Building Your Team's Moral, Pride, and Spirit
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Building Your Team's Moral, Pride, and Spirit

by Gene Klann
March 2004
Beginner
28 pages
36m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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Key Point Summary

When morale, pride, and spirit are present within a team, productivity is high, relationships are strong, and it is actually fun to go to work. Without morale, pride, and spirit, the situation is very different. There will be dissatisfaction, lethargy, negativism, friction, and a lack of cooperation.

People have a variety of needs: physiological, safety, and social. The social needs generally have two components: the desire to be validated by others and the desire to be part of something that is greater than oneself. Building morale, pride, and spirit helps to meet these social needs.

Two components must be present to build morale, pride, and spirit. The first is an easily understood and routinely emphasized vision, mission, ...

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ISBN: 1882197860