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A team leader faces many challenges, but the greatest one is probably coordinating a team to achieve a set goal or objective. After all, every team is created for a purpose, and each one must succeed in meeting objectives. Usually, teams will need to answer to higher-ups, and the team leader will always find that the buck stops with him or her. Therefore, learning how to get the best out of a team is really the key to making things work. Other factors and challenges that may affect a team leader include budgets, schedules, project timelines, and complaints or bad relationships with underlings. Balancing a series of tasks and roles is really what being a leader is all about, so the most successful leaders will be a dynamic blend of diplomacy skills and very enthusiastic. Leaders know how to motivate "the troops", and they also know how to quiet down and relate one-to-one when that sort of approach is needed. The best way to become a better leader is to organize a project very carefully beforehand, select exactly the right team members, and then delegate like crazy. Delegation is very important - micromanaging is poor management ninety-nine per cent of the time, and the best managers do avoid this pitfall at all costs. Managers should be visionaries who deal with day to day issues, while also keeping their eyes on the prize. Achieving the goal is always the point.
Leading a team of your peers is a definite challenge, and it can put all of your leadership skills to the test. From setting goals to involving team members in decision making to create a climate of openness and honesty, you need to have it all – and more.
If you remember to put your team's needs first, and if you work very hard to protect their interests, you'll prove to them that you're committed to and passionate about their success. When you demonstrate that you believe in the value of their work, and when you're willing to work through any obstacles you encounter, your team will respect your integrity – and they'll want to work hard with you, and for you, to achieve results.
There could be many challenges if you are promoted from a team to lead that Team:
Main challenge is Collaboration,Delegation.The chances of failure as leader are minimised if you have remained a good,respected,efficient,proactive,colloborative and sensible team member who has been promoted as a result of his/her competence.
If we adopt following11 Principles of Colloborative Leadership;Success is guaranteed and you can lead a team confidently and successfully.
Colloboration:Threre are many practices which one can adopt in order to ensure colloboration from the team.
1.Passionate,Purpose and Vison:Colloborative leaders create an environment where people can unite behind a common purpose,vision and set of values.
2.Accept you are not in control:Colloborative leaders will see that team as a whole is in control lead without the safety of authority,position and hierarchy.
3.Be accessible flatten your enterprise structure:Have fewer levels of management and let many people feel comfortable and an open environ to report to you.
4.Lead Horizontally:Colloborative leadership is all about breaking down silos and building trust based cross functional realtionships.
5.Develop Leaders at all level:Colloborative Leaders will emphasize and create leaders within the team by identifying competence of each member and accordingly delegating jobs to them.
6.Build a Foundation of Trust:Trust is an essential of effective team work and colloboration.So when trust fails leaders fail.Maintain high degree of trust within the team.
7.Encourage Risk Taking:Encourage people to take Initiatives and it may involve in taking some amount of risk.
8.Lead with Questions:Info and knowledge can only be shared when you have the right technique of questioning the team so adhere to more open ended questions which will lead to acquire sufficient info.
9.Share Info broadly:Sharing info is the life blood which goes into making a well knit and cohesive team so do it sincerely.
10.Support Transparent Decision Making:Allow individuals to share views towards the decision making and emapthesize with team that it has influenced his/her decision making.
11.Encourage Constructive Conflict:Sharing of Diverse Perspective from team members will make it easier to arrive at a decison or result rather than squeezing the perspective from team.Difficult and diffrent ideas are hard since there could be conflicting ideas also bu encourage sharing of ideas.
Colloboration Leadership is all about leading scientifically not physically and if one is able to colloborate with the team then he will be able to Delegate jobs to team members as per their competencies and will end up with positive team and posotive results
Not Much if you are good with your team members then obviously you can make out your work and achieve the goal.
There will be high responsibility which may make you to be different from team members and that would certainely viewed as arrogant kind of a person by your team members in some situation.
But again it is your maturity and ability how well you sort out those differences.
if you are chosen as the Leader of the team for you have been a member. First of all, challange faced is the Sense of Equality & Delegation of Powers but it may proove BIG POSITIVE if you are respected among your co members of the Team and command on Communication . If you are able to tell each & every Team Member that behind every Successful Project its the Team Work and any one have to take the Responsibilty for Failure its YOU.
When you get promoted to be a leader of your peers, you prove that you are capable to lead this team and that you have well communication skills and focus on team building concept to keep the trustful relation with the team.
In the Islamic history, there is a young leader Osama Ibn Zaid who led many old people successfully.
