If you are a team manager, you will be constantly looking for techniques and strategies that can make your group perform to its maximum potential. A team manager is only as good as their team is, and that is why you should be always involved with your team and make them work to their fullest capacity. But, you must have experienced the limitations. You must have observed that despite there being some good people in your team, you cannot extract good work from them. Why is this happening?
Probably this is because of your own limitations. In most cases, the failings of a team are directly related to the failings of the team leaders that helm them. So, have you looked into your own capabilities of late?
There are several qualities that define a good team manager. The following is a list of the most important ones. If you are looking at being able to maximize the potential of your team, this should act as a checklist for you to work on.
1. How good are you in communicating with your team? Communication can work wonders. When you are a good communicant, you can get your point across better. You can resolve issues, you can provide better clarifications to your team.
2. Do you have a good hold on understanding problems and forwarding solutions? Problem-solving is one of the chief assets of a good team manager. When you are in that leader's position, your subordinates are looking for all the support that you can give. They want to go by the solutions you offer.
3. How good are you at managing people? Managing a team is essentially about managing the interests of a bunch of people. You need to be skilled at personnel management if you are to be a good team leader.
4. Do you work on deadlines? A team manager needs to be a perfectionist when it comes to meeting schedules. Only a team manager who is attentive to time-bound stipulations will be able to make their teams work in a time-bound manner.
5. Team managers should not be power-hungry. This is a totally negative trait. You shouldn't be so arrogant about the power you wield on your subordinates that your attitude becomes detrimental to their productivity.
These five chief characteristics define a good team manager. You have to make sure you work up to them if you don't have these qualities in you already.
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