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Here are10 of the challenges I notice and have experience from managing teams.1- Collaborating is not the norm. If you think about it, education, applying for a job and getting picked to represent your country in sports are all competitive. There are winners and losers.2- Everyone has a view but not everyone is willing to take action or put in the effort to make the great idea a reality. It’s easier for some people to stand on the sidelines and criticise.3- Trust is really difficult to earn and even tougher to maintain.4- Hindsight is a great thing and people and the media are often always wise after the event.5- People tend to remember the few times you messed up rather than the99% of the time you did well.6- People want to have influence but are not always willing to take responsibility for the consequences.7- You rarely get the opportunity to hand pick your own team and more often than not you have to get by with what you inherit.8- You have to be willing to delegate, which brings with it risk and insecurity.9- People have short term memories and sometimes quickly forget what you have done for the team in the past.10- You are piggy in the middle. By that I mean you have subordinates who have expectations of you as well as superiors. It can feel like a no-win situation at times.
for me the challenging of managing a team are:
1) diversification : it can be diversification of culture or norms or traditions or language between team members which lead to different conflicting situations
2) Lack of Proper Communication between team members: Here in Saudia, English and arabic are the only source of communication in companies even for pakistanis, indians , philipinos as well...So, if one is not good in any of these language, he/she can communicate his/her message easily
3) Empowerment issues : Sometimes , it becomes difficult to delegate desicion making power in all team members equally
4) Lack of equal employment oppurtunities : sometimes team has to work in a group and some members start thinking their task is not as important as other in a same group and starts behaving negatively to ruin the performance and hardwork of other group members as well.
5 ) sence of responsibility : some people like to be a part of a team but don;t want to take any responsibility
6) Lack of trust on other team members
7) Thinking ones ownself : people , though working in a team, like to think about themselves and their benefits instead of thinking outside the box
8)Seniority complexes: senior people (with more expeirence and age) sometimes donot like to work under a person younger but experienced and talented then them.So, tackling such people becomes difficult at time.
9) Emotional disturbance of any team member : any team member suffering from any emotional disturbance can ruin the whole group's performance very easily
10)Red Tapism/ favouritism : Favourtisitm in a main challenge while a team leader has to confront while managing team as people like to make a group with their friends , no matter, how ineffiecient that person can be.
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Dear Maher,
do what you say and thats the biggest challange.
maintain good relationship with other team leaders.
encourage your team to speak their mind and try to be creative and embrace creativity.
when you implement new work system follow up your team execution till they fully understand the importance of it.
understand you team players well.
Best Regards,
Collaborating is not the norm.
Everyone has a view
Trust is really difficult to earn
Hindsight is a great thing
People tend to remember the few times you messed up.
People want to have influence.
You rarely get the opportunity to hand pick your own team.
You have to be willing to delegate.
People have short term memories.
You are piggy in the middle.
