Mentality

Developing Your Team

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They say leadership is taught in school. I say, based in experience, not true at all. There are two kinds of people in this harsh world: the follower and the leader. A person running for Presidency may have the best credential there is plus good leadership skills can run a country and his future constituents. A person running for Presidency minus good leadership skills can bring chaos to a nation.

Leadership can come in different ways, different wrappings. One can be a leader for 12 million people and one can also be a leader of 15. You see, leadership is not measured on how many people you have. It is gauged on the yield of the team.  I never, by chance tried running for Presidency, however, I was once a leader and I want to share with you my joy, pain, downtime and victory on how we started developing a Team.

The “us” mentality. Never by chance use a superiority complex on your team. To be honest, a leader is synonymous to being the “servant”, “confidante”, “mother”, “big brother” ,”referee”, “the judge” . True to the cliché; “big command comes with big responsibility”. One has to balance everything, make sure that everything is in order, everything is running up and good and everybody is in good shape. After all, it’s not YOU but the teamwork that will matter at the end of the day.

Team player? Yes, what you need are team players not stars in your team. How mold your members to be players? The answer is simple: act as one. Play the game. Dive into everything there is to be done, immerse into the core mission of the team. Play hard. Take the lead. They will follow you. Trust me.

Fair is fair and be firm about it. Treat everyone in the team fairly. If one calls in sick, don’t panic. Remember you were part of a team before and you are dealing with people and they get sick too. Make it a point when you excuse one member of the team, you give the same favor to the rest of the team as well. Set rules and practice it.

Respect begets respect. Show everyone that you respect yourself and on whatever you to. If there’s respect, there is integrity in whatever aspect in the team. If you want your team member to respect you, show everyone that you respect them too.

[book id='1' /]Reward them. Pay back the team for a job well done. After all, your success depends on your team and theirs depend on you as well. I guess the core decree on how to develop a good team knows the cycle of a give and take relationship. Treat them a good meal. Buy them frappe or macchiato; organize a team building activity or a simple pat on the back will do.

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