How to build a healthy competition among your staff
How to build a healthy competition among your staff
Competition is instrumental in making good people or organizations better. Anyone conversant with the stories of Ronaldo and Messi or Android and iOS can relate, but there is a catch, it must be healthy. Teachers know how competition thrutched their students to chase their learning objectives and surpass their potentials. As a school owner or leader, you can harness the same energy to propel your educators to become better, which will also make the school team excel. To attain this, some conditions must be considered and rules that must be applied directly and indirectly to create such safe competition.
Set the goals and metrics right
Like any competition or game, there must be clear goals and actions plans or rules that the success of all participants. Of course, these goals must be relevant, attainable, and timed, but what is more important is the metrics. For instance, to identify the most punctual staff of the year [goal], you may choose to allocate points to whoever signs in first each day or to everyone that arrives at a class a minute before start time [metrics]. Explaining healthy competition goals and metrics formally to the teaching staff might not be compulsory but what is crucial is keeping such records tenable and presentable whenever required. As long as the goals are defined properly and the metrics are flawless, teachers would compete healthily and certainly celebrate winners.
Use clear, communal, and confidential incentives
Communicate the incentives that come with achieving a goal or excelling above others in completion in a clear manner to make it healthy. The concept of confidentiality in this is to ensure that such prizes are not given in a formal setting like the Olympics or Grammys. You may wish to use a scoreboard to show winners and runner-ups alongside their progress rate or send a report at intervals. Ensure you recognize the effort of everyone involved and put him or her in the spotlights instead of the winner(s) only. What might be more effective is giving rewards in secret because it encourages others not to be only motivated by the material proceeds but by the drive of being a winner. The healthy competition aims to make everyone better and not to identify the best fed.
Encourage and enforce mentoring
Through mentoring, winners and leaders in the profession can transfer their skills to other staff freely. A school should create a pathway for high-ranked teachers to work with other teachers to even or reduce the disparity in general proficiency. Healthy competition should not be about winning alone or self-attainment. It should be out collectivity and teamwork over time.
In addition, MDC can help you create good working conditions for your school staff that would lead to higher productivity through healthy collaborations and competitions.
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