Leading a Team
The next requirement for a leader, after they learned to lead themselves, is to develop a capacity to lead others. Leading others or any group of people with a common goal or purpose is obviously not the same as leading yourself. It requires significantly more skills and capabilities.
Just as you learned to create the conditions for your own fulfilment in Leading Self, you must now learn how to create the conditions for a group of people to find their individual and collective fulfilment. You not only need to give your team a sense of purpose, but you also need to enable them, individually and collectively, to achieve high levels of sustainable performance.
Your job as a team leader is to create an "all for one and one for all" team spirit. You will only be able to do this if you can create a climate of trust. If your team does not trust you to care for their needs and be there for them when they need you, you will never be able to create the level of internal cohesion required to create a high-performance team. In addition to trusting you, your team members will also need to trust each other.
You must also give your team a clear sense of purpose. Every person on your team needs to discover their own sense of purpose and have a clear line of sight between their personal purpose, the team’s purpose and the organization’s purpose.
The next requirement for a leader, after they learned to lead themselves, is to develop a capacity to lead others. Leading others or any group of people with a common goal or purpose is obviously not the same as leading yourself. It requires significantly more skills and capabilities.
Just as you learned to create the conditions for your own fulfilment in Leading Self, you must now learn how to create the conditions for a group of people to find their individual and collective fulfilment. You not only need to give your team a sense of purpose, but you also need to enable them, individually and collectively, to achieve high levels of sustainable performance.
Your job as a team leader is to create an "all for one and one for all" team spirit. You will only be able to do this if you can create a climate of trust. If your team does not trust you to care for their needs and be there for them when they need you, you will never be able to create the level of internal cohesion required to create a high-performance team. In addition to trusting you, your team members will also need to trust each other.
You must also give your team a clear sense of purpose. Every person on your team needs to discover their own sense of purpose and have a clear line of sight between their personal purpose, the team’s purpose and the organization’s purpose.
