Leading a Team

To become a manager, you need to know how to lead a team, delegate, and be able to correct an employee.


What does leading a team mean?
Nowadays, managers face strong pressure from the company and from outside (clients, partners). Because of this, they will have:

• heavy responsibilities,
• important decisions to make, often impacting the credibility of the company they work for,
• to set objectives for their employees and themselves,
• in order to meet everyone's expectations.

To succeed in their mission, they will need a sense of performance for themselves and their team.

Everyone will need to work together to achieve the same increasingly high objectives in this difficult economic climate.


How to lead a team?
Leading a team daily requires effective personal organization to better collaborate as a team.

It also requires experience. A young person aged 25/30 will have more difficulty leading a team, because business schools haven't trained them concretely in leadership; they simply provide management models. Therefore, there is a disconnect with reality.

Good team leadership is based on exchange, listening, and dialogue. These are essential and unavoidable conditions for success.

However, these conditions will take into account: the company culture, its methods, and its habits.

To work in a calm atmosphere, a good manager should:

• keep spirits up,
• know how to manage conflicts to avoid confrontation.

The manager's main task will be to regularly check in with their employees.

• The meeting will be friendly and private.
• It will be an open discussion with an exchange of viewpoints.
• The meeting will also aim to give an overview of the situation.

Leading a team: knowing your teams
To effectively lead a team, it is essential to know it well, that is to say:

• Who belongs to the team?
• What is the seniority of the employees?
• What are their skill levels?
• What is their working method?
• How is the current team organized?

This analysis will allow you to:

• maintain direction while adapting, or
• implement a new organization within the department using creative techniques.

Leading a team: mistakes to avoid
To know how to lead a team, there are some mistakes to avoid, such as:

• divide and conquer: that is, using people who agree with you against those who disagree or have a different point of view than yours;
• being a tyrant: being perpetually dissatisfied, irritable, constantly "watching," or regularly criticizing an employee's work without understanding the details;
• being insincere or fickle: this is confusing, demotivating, and gradually destroys the climate of trust.

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Posted on April 12, 2013.