Leading a team 1: Is it challenging? Why?

Officially becoming a team leader is interesting. You can read leadership qualities in books, journals, and articles. You can add value to your CV.

Operationally, winning the team and winning as a team is the practical aspect of leadership. Once you become a leader, your team can start believing in you for their future or it might happen vice-versa. The team start believing is much more challenging in terms of appreciation.

Especially, when you are a team leader or a department head in a small organization, you have to run the team and achieve the task with limited resources including skills, logistics and finance. Eventually, the trust you build with your team, will help the members to forget that everything comes through a hierarchy.

If an organization talks about the quality but drive the operations through quantity, gradually the processes will lose its balance. When the said team leader’s KPIs are full of quality but the organization demands quantity due to internal issues, this will be negatively affected on the organization. In the long run, the quality of the product will decrease.

However, the team leader will be on spotlight, asking “why”? The reasons and situations may be varied. But leaders should have so many correct answers to a single question, as a part of the never ending cycle of organizational demand, parallel to the leadership of the team.

Poornima Weerasinghe | 07.11. 2022 | #ThinkNew