3 Ways To Get Your Colleagues To Buy Into Your Idea

How do you get your team to buy in to your vision? Leadership lessons for entrepreneurs, managers and leads. - 7 minute read.

Are you a leader or aspiring to be one?

You can be the greatest manager in the world or you can be a top individual performer, but all your subject matter expertise or other skills won't do you a bit of good if you cannot get your team to buy in to your vision.

So what are the most effective ways to get buy-ins for your ideas?

Here are 6 quick and easy ways you can begin to change your life by regularly getting people to buy into your idea.

Tip #1 - Find Your Authentic Self.

Not knowing what is their authentic self is the biggest problem many people struggle with.

You need to discover your AUTHENTIC SELF and become comfortable with it.

If you yourself are NOT truly comfortable with your authentic self, why will anyone else be?

The process starts with Discovery, is consummated by Acceptance and ends with you "wearing" your authenticity in public, as if it was a piece of cloak.

Force yourself to chill. Go out and talk to any one. It could be in the street, in a bar or in your office. Imagine yourself to be in a movie. Only this time, you are not playing a random character, but instead you are playing yourself.

Bring out the creative side in yourself. Be aware of your feelings. And observe whether you are really being your true self and are still comfortable with it.

Note, this works best if there is somewhere some positivity in you. Otherwise, you may need to sprinkle some humor just like one adds a bit of salt and paper to a steak if it is too raw.

Whoever you are, the more comfortable you are with yourself, others will find you that much more persuasive and attractive.

It takes time, but as you become better in just unwinding and letting your authenticity express itself to others, you will soon find yourself attracting people who genuinely like you for who you really are.

Tip #2 - Simplify Your Vision.

There is a bit of science to this.

If your vision is clear and simple, it becomes more portable and easier for people to comprehend and have faith in it. This makes it effortless for them to share it and ultimately go viral.

And there is nothing in this world that is more powerful than a vision that becomes VIRAL !

This is how the Berlin Wall came tumbling down at the end of the last Cold War. Or for that matter, how the Beatles became famous. It all started with a vision !

But first, you need to simplify the vision to make it portable.

So that it can evolve into something viral.

But how do you simplify the vision? How do you turn it into something compelling and portable? What process can you use to do this consistently?

You have to hold the vision in your eyes.

Give it form.

Chisel away at it.

Prune it.

Distill the essence of it.

To make it much purer and stronger than before.

Until it goes on to inspire and persuade millions of people - YOUR TEAM TODAY AND YOUR FUTURE CUSTOMERS TOMORROW.

Tip #4 - Brainstorm Regularly.

The more you brainstorm with your colleagues, the more you give shape to your vision.

And the more your team see themselves as having contributed towards your vision, the more faith they will have in it. And when you have set up a process to do this regularly, you have taken the first steps towards building a GREAT team.

At the very least, you will have a cohesive team, creating a path towards something out on the horizon that excites. A team that is clear about where they are going. Clear about why they cannot stay where they are today. Clear about how you are going to lead them there.

If you are looking for a way to motivate and bond your team, take a look at our product, The Toot App. The Toot App offers all the tools you need to brainstorm with your team or alone by yourself OUT OF THE BOX.

The Toot App is a suite of 5 different brainstorming tools all rolled into one product, that will help you fix misalignments in vision.

What's great about the Toot App is that it does not offer only one way of brainstorming like all other SaaS products. Instead, it offers a suite of 5 different brainstorming tools all rolled into one product, that allow you to brainstorm with your team in 5 different ways.

And this is important because then you can map and visualize your vision and roadmap in 5 ways, looking at them from different angles.

Just like a painter does not use only one kind of brush to paint the canvas, as a creative you need several tools at your disposal.

Using the Toot App, you can hold the vision in your eyes, look at it, prune it, distill the essence of it, make it purer, stronger, give it a form, chisel away at your vision and make it more and more compelling.

And then you can use the same brainstorming tools to reverse engineer the roadmap, one that is practical and that your team is best suited for.

Tip #5 - Reinforce How Each Part Fits Into The Whole.

Remember that almost everyone in your team is only able to see a tiny portion of the business. Your main job as a leader is to communicate clearly how everything fits together in the whole scheme of things.

Be super clear in your briefs. You can use a physical whiteboard to brainstorm each other's thoughts. Or you can use a digital whiteboard, such as what The Toot App offers, to help you in remote or hybrid work environments. You can use the Toot App's WorkTable to list out action steps.

Tip #6 - Build A Tribe.

Invest in people despite uncertainty. The top performers never want to feel stuck. When they find that you are helping them grow, you will earn their gratitude and loyalty.

There is no more powerful a feeling in society than the sense of belonging to a Tribe.

If you would like to know more about how you can build a Rock Star team that will help you achieve your vision, you can try The Toot App.

The Toot App is an entirely new and exciting way to:

• create a compelling vision and a roadmap together with your team,

• build trust and belief in your journey together,

• lay the foundation of a strong company culture.

• and by doing all the above, build you a great team.

Its a new SaaS app that works on the cloud, and if you want a motivated workforce that is fully aligned with your vision and is 100% invested in your success without you needing to chase them around to get things done..... Then This Is For You.

Ask yourself this,

What is the value of having a vision that is SO compelling, that it becomes "viral", and goes on to inspire millions around the world.

It is PRICELESS.

So try The Toot App today and build a rock-star team.