What are the most important things to focus on when leading a team?
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1. Learn to talk with your employees, not at them.
2. Be clear in what you expect and give them the tools to do the job right.
3. Listen to creative ideas from everyone. The newest person on the team may have the best ideas.
4. Positive encouragement is alway appreciated
5. Check in often to avoid a conflict of your expectations and what is actually happening.
Hope this helps getting your leadership thought process on a roll!
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(1) Good Communication - informal ranks off meetings where people can communicate easily so that helps with issues.
(2) Increase Team Communication - I like the Yammer, things like that. The more information you have, the easier it is for you to focus in on good ideas. More companies should facilitate that. Especially in virtual settings. People, especially me, tend to feel alienated by digital boundaries. More communications breaks down those barriers and cross-pollenates the workforce.
(3) The most important thing to me to get your team to focus on is "execution" of ideas, although not blindly, and also not without a lot of team planning. Getting your team to focus in on the execution may help the team stay determined and realize what they are not doing.
Generally, I think this is why ideas and teams fail. They end up talking without the focus of execution.
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Hope this helps :)
Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but... there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you.
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M$Getting the big things, the important things, done takes sustained focus and the patience of a chopping block.
Talk with your team, find out what they need, and what the organization needs. Internalize their needs.Make them your own. Decide on the best and most important thing you could do. Tell your team at every turn what you are working towards.
Spend every free minute contemplating how to get it. Make it your hobby to plan your next step.
Avoid distractions at all costs. Delegate. Keep it simple, and remind yourself that you can have a choice between an urgent problem and the important one.
Focus. Make everything you do a step towards your goals. Your mind will find ways to sidestep obstacles if you constantly focus on what to do next.
If you could do anything what would it be?
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You should also try to make sure that everyone under your watch knows where to go with conflicts, and ideally how to solve the conflicts with maximum efficiency (such as disrupting as few people as possible).
Make sure that you assign people jobs that best involve their strengths.
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In order to be effective as a leader you must have the respect of your team and you must also respect each member of your team. Without either all of the other suggestions are meaningless.
The question is how you you get that respect and convey your respect. This can be done many ways (as is noted in some of the other responses). You must be able to listen to each idea presented and allow the idea to be explained, responded to, and discussed. The important point here is that you must keep everyone on topic and not let the discussion devolve.
An effective leader guides the team to a decision and does not impose any specific solution or influence how the goal is met.
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They need to always feel like they can come to you with a situation no matter what it is and talk about it with and find a solution that makes things better for everyone.
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Lots of leaderships courses and summer camps.
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First of all, listen to what they're telling you. This will help you tailor your communication to them to a style they can both understand and be more motivated by.
Secondly, using your knowledge of how your individual team members tick, communicate the overall goal to them. If you connect it to them so they make it their own, they're more likely to perform.
Third: Convey *real* respect. Too many people just pay lip service to it and equate it with mere politeness. It goes far beyond that. A real leader is willing to step aside and let people use their strengths and intelligence. A sham leader will talk a good game but insist on being in front of the team, micromanaging it, so that peoples' strengths are wasted. It is completely untrue that if you want anything done right you have to do it yourself!
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Several leadership block in the U.S. Army.
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/learning/2.htm
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=JLPFYFGbvsZGBtpxvJVTc1W...
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2. Clearly define the responsibilities of each person.
3. Hire/select the team members slowly.
4. Fire/remove the bad team members quickly.
5. Over communicate the mission and everyone's role. Seriously. Folks need to hear things over and over again so that they can repeat them in their sleep. (i.e. Mahalo's mission is "To help people find information they can trust." Ask anyone on staff that question and they will repeat it back to you instantly.
6. Be fair, listen to all sides, but make quick decisions. There is a time for debate, but after that time folks need to move quickly to accomplish their goals. There were a lot of debates over features to include in Mahalo Answers, when to launch and how the system would work (i.e. points, Mahalo Dollars, etc). we had many discussions, debates and fights over six weeks, but at the end of the day we made the best decision we could and MOVED ON. Too many folks get caught up in committee--that kills a company/project.
Hope this helps!
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2.Only a few things disrupt a team as much as a leader who is a misfit. No matter how talented, when you bring in managers who don’t share the values and vision of the people they lead, they end up incurring the resentment of the rank and file.
3.Only a few things disrupt a team as much as a leader who is a misfit. No matter how talented, when you bring in managers who don’t share the values and vision of the people they lead, they end up incurring the resentment of the rank and file.
4. A good manager should be a good decision maker and a problem solver. These qualities take on great significance because a manager is not only expected to resolve his own problems and conflicts, but also those working under him.
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