HACKS ON HOW TO BE A GOOD LEADER
Leading a team isn’t easy, either a team of experts or rookies, dealing with them is hard, but a good team leader greatest assets is to be able to identify and remove roadblocks to success. Once you can’t do that, you lead successfully.
There are some hacks for leaders and business owners here, if you are leading a hundred or thousands of peopl in a cooperations and tou have the urge to lead them Arofiyin, you have to adhere to the following tips on how to do so. Leadership comes with different qualities and those qualities are responsible for their successes or failure.
Incase you fine yourself in a business organization, remember you're leading all the employees under you, but you're not *managing* them all. You're managing your direct reports, which should be 5-7 individuals max. Focus on them. When you interact with the employees you don't manage directly, get to know them as people first, that'll be the most valuable information in leading them. Remembering everything you learn about them is hard, but doing so will make you a superhero.
If you're not going to empower the managers under you, you don't need them? If you see room for improvement, let the manager know and let them make the change on their teams and come to you with questions/concerns. This will save you SO much time. If you're the smartest person in any room - you're doing it wrong. As a leader, your job is bringing together the best people to get the job done - your skillset is identifying those people, not being one of them.
The quickest way to build loyalty with those you lead is to take all of the blame and none of the credit. Publicly share what you could have done to prevent mistakes made by your team. Privately, help them learn from those mistakes. Loudly promote their individual success. Get rid of "I" and "you" in your vocabulary and replace it with "We" as often as possible. This is one of the easiest tactics that has an incredible impact on how people view themselves as part of a team.
You *will* have to make decisions that are unfair and you *will* have to communicate decisions you disagree with. Guaranteed. The sooner you accept that and expect it, the better you'll deal with it when the time comes. What would you add? Or if you haven’t managed or been in a leadership position yet, what questions do you have?
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