Compelling Direction

According to Harvard Business Review, compelling direction implies the following:

Do you agree or disagree?

The foundation of every great team is a direction that energizes, orients, and engages its members. Teams cannot be inspired if they don’t know what they’re working toward and don’t have explicit goals. Those goals should be challenging (modest ones don’t motivate) but not so difficult that the team becomes dispirited. They also must be consequential: People have to care about achieving a goal, whether because they stand to gain extrinsic rewards, like recognition, pay, and promotions; or intrinsic rewards, such as satisfaction and a sense of meaning.

For more information, please read the article on the Harvard Business Review website: The Secrets of Great Teamwork

https://hbr.org/2016/06/the-secrets-of-great-teamwork