How To Manage Your Work Team: Guidelines And Tips For Success
One of the biggest difficulties we encounter in our professional career (and also in our personal or sporting career, or with some type of project) is learning to manage the talent of a team.
When we work as a team everything becomes more complex, but when you have to be the one who leads that team, manages its talents and has the main responsibility, everything becomes even more complicated. The great key to achieving this is to understand that this development does not depend on authority or magical rules… but on your own personal development and key psychological skills
A team can be at work, in a venture, in some type of competition, or even in your family (a family is a type of team, since its members have or should have common goals). When we get to that situation we find ourselves with big doubts , since no one has taught us how to do it. We feel fear, insecurity, difficulty communicating, knowing how to say no, motivating them, and we feel that each member of the team follows a free path and finally those common objectives are not met. What are the key skills that lead you to achieve it?
Professional development is actually personal development To grow as a professional (a fundamental motivation in life, since through work you do a service to the world in which you live) it is necessary to grow as a person. The key personal skills that help you improve as a professional are emotion management (which influences every decision you make and your mood), your productivity (the way you motivate yourself, motivate yourself, manage time and tasks). resources), your communication (if it is assertive, transparent and empathetic enough) and above all, personal relationships. This is where a key personal and psychological skill comes into play: authentic leadership.
Leadership is often misunderstood as a position of guidance, command, or power. Nothing is further from reality. Leadership is actually the ability to positively influence others. This is something necessary in a work team, in sports, in a project, as teachers, educators, and also as fathers and mothers. A leader is a person who takes responsibility for the team, trusts the people on that team and knows how to accompany them in their growth. A leader, first and foremost, creates other leaders (knowledge is not saved).
The great key to managing your work team, then, is trust When the team does not achieve the expected results or achieves them with too much effort and stress, it is because there is not enough cohesion and harmony among the members of that team. This is caused by a lack of trust with the person who must manage the talent of that team (overconfidence is also a form of distrust).
Cohesion, motivation and empathy
When people trust that person, unity and cohesion are generated, they are consulted, and at the same time, that leader supervises and delegates them (but without hyper-vigilance). Instead of building formal authority based on blind obedience, a moral authority is built, based on trust When you trust and they trust you (which involves a whole process of change), the relationship with the team becomes closer, they come to you, look to you for advice or help, and that helps you unite the team and achieve the results. proposed objectives.
Another essential skill is empathetic and assertive communication. The leader knows how to transmit what is necessary, with kindness, empathy, trust, closeness, authentic interest in the other and their needs, but also establishing clear limits. This is actually an emotional process, where the way you manage your emotions is at stake (fear of the other’s response, insecurity, distrust, etc.).
Finally: learn to manage your emotions. This process of change implies that you must learn to manage your emotions in a more functional way, so that they accompany you in this process through trust, security and enthusiasm instead of fear, stress, anxiety, anger or The insecurity.
Making others grow is helping you grow It is one of the most uplifting processes of change in both professional and personal life.
