A good question, which deserves the best answer I can give. Simply it's like this, being a team leader is like being a teacher, coach, counsellor and the person to kick some butt if its needed. Each role is different from the rest yet necessary for the role. As a teacher, you try and instil the relevant knowledge needed to utilise the persons stimuli, in order to set the foundation or groundwork needed on which the business is to be built.The coach, takes the task of putting that knowledge into play, strengthening the skills with techniques and strategies concerning how the building blocks are to be laid.
In all businesses, things happen that sometimes causes stress, anxiety and the feeling of despair. This is where you as a leader, really shine. By mentoring and counselling that person through his moment of trouble and help steer him back into the right direction.
So when do you set them free? You don't. They are your team for better or worse until they decide to opt out. Ah! But what about kicking them into shape? Again you don't. This will not achieve any thing good except resentment. When I used that term earlier, it was to see if you would continue to read to the end. This is where you really gain that special edge that keeps you at the top. When growing up the fear of a lashing kept me in line, ... Even though it never came, I didn't pursue it..... Get the picture?
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A good question, which deserves the best answer I can give. Simply it's like this, being a team leader is like being a teacher, coach, counsellor and the person to kick some butt if its needed. Each role is different from the rest yet necessary for the role. As a teacher, you try and instil the relevant knowledge needed to utilise the persons stimuli, in order to set the foundation or groundwork needed on which the business is to be built.The coach, takes the task of putting that knowledge into play, ...more
