Leading a team or group of individuals can be a very difficult but great and rewarding experience. Being a team leader can range from a small group project at school or leading and managing a large group of colleagues in your career field. There is a lot of pressure put on the leader to make sure the team works in an effective and efficient manner and to make the right decisions at spur of the moment when necessary.
When it comes to assigning tasks for each individual member be sure to determine everyone’s strengths and weaknesses. If you assign someone a mathematical portion when their strength is technical writing, the results will most likely be less than desirable. One very important thing to avoid is placing blame on others. This can really demoralize a team and cause unsatisfactory results. This sounds very cliché but there is no I in team. When you are working with a team you are just that, a group of individuals working collaboratively to achieve an individual goal.
Overall, leading a team brings on great responsibility but can have an even greater reward when performing successful. It is important to be respectful of all members and work effective and efficiently as individuals and as a group.
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Chris,
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job effectively communicating what is needed to lead a team! I think this blog is very relevant to what we're doing in this project and it facilitates the understanding of the importance of working in and leading a team. Great Job!
Zarah
Chris,
ReplyDeleteYou have done an awesome job defining what a team leader's responsibilities are and what exactly a team is. I could not have said it better myself.
A team leader is the most important peice of the business puzzle. You have to be very discipline and dedicated to do a good job. Very nice job of explaining how important a leader is.
ReplyDeleteThanks this is going to help me to become a better leader. Nice job in explaining how important leadership skills are.
ReplyDeleteNice graphic and good examples. try and put a space between your paragraphs for more white space.
ReplyDeleteThis is very good. I like how it feels like you are actually talking to us and not like its coming out of a text book.
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