There are many roles a leader must play when put in charge of a team. What leaders are not supposed to be is abusive. Some are purposely abusive while others are unaware that they are an abusive leader. Ask yourself, are you an abusive leader?
Conduct Annual Team Review
Each year leaders spend a good amount of time and effort to review individual performance of each one of their members. What leaders fail to do in addition to individual reviews is to conduct annual team review. If you’re not doing both, you may be missing out.
Burden of Autonomy
It is common for us to want full autonomy in our decision making. To have that range of autonomy is much more risky than we’re aware of. The burden of autonomy is heavy once you understand the impact and ramifications of the responsibility placed upon you.
Leaders Should Ask For Help
Asking for help isn’t easy. Especially when you’re a leader who’s expected to be providing help and support. There’s no bonus points for struggling alone. So good leaders should ask for help when genuinely needing it.
Building Team Confidence
As much as a team relies on their leaders, their leaders too, relies on the team. Therefore, the team’s ability to do the work with the leader is most important. And in order to work well, the team must be a confident team. The leader must be able to build the team’s confidence to be an effective unit.
Being A Confident Leader
Being a confident leader isn’t easy. There are times when we doubt ourselves and we are unsure what the right decision to make is. Leaders need to project confidence which is expected. But being a confident leader takes work.