Develop the skills, confidence, and network to have a team lead career. You need to discover your true potential to achieve your professional goals. Did you know that every manager has a certain style?
Do you want to become a manager or are you already in the position?
A career represents a true journey that a professional takes to perfect themselves. Business leaders and managers, HR professionals from around the world have answered a seemingly simple question: Why do you think team management skills are essential?
The answers were as follows:
- Managers help teams and organizations cope with new challenges and adapt to changing markets.
- Managers are essential for developing a productive and happy workforce.
- Managers have enormous power in helping employees know the organization’s purpose and achieve success in that company. (Source: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)
Prioritization and delegation would be two of the most important aspects of management. When an employee receives a complex task that takes them out of their comfort zone and strengthens them to develop new abilities and skills. What direct benefits does work delegation bring?
- Reduces vulnerability
- Utilization of personnel resources
- Greater ownership of the company’s mission and objectives
- Enhanced skills and knowledge
- Building trust
- Freeing up the agenda for vital tasks
- Staff developed for a broader role
- Increased staff motivation
Delegation comes after you’ve prioritized everything, more precisely after you’ve managed time. One of the most effective time management strategies is a “to-do” list. The list helps you keep up with all your activities. Plan all your actions for a week, list the tasks/activities you want to carry out. About 15 activities would be the maximum. Now, what’s the order and time allocated to each task? You can prioritize them based on urgency and importance. Urgency shows us when an activity needs to be carried out, although each person perceives urgency in their own way. Importance considers the success in achieving the purpose of this job.
Motivate the team, increase morale and performance
Any type of outsourcing, task delegation has at its core a few rules that can protect you from certain information leaks. Don’t delegate tasks that involve confidentiality and sensitive information, as you may violate GDPR provisions, as well as hand over complex information about the brand. If you delegate, you give yourself free time to do those things that only you know how to do. Re-examine the tasks you find simple, it might be appropriate to delegate these tasks, as well as those you don’t know how to carry out. Use the tactic of delegating activities to build team leaders, motivate the team, increase morale and performance. What qualities do you need to develop? Courage, trust in others, constructive feedback
Yes, you read that correctly, it’s tremendous to have confidence in a business and career, because you can fall into the abyss where you see everyone as suspicious, that they don’t want to work and that they’re stealing from you or aren’t good for that position. The chain of trust between the company, stakeholders, and customers for the whole machinery to move forward. What should brands be careful about? Not to lose the trust that customers give them, because this can have devastating effects. Trust is necessary between managers, leaders, employees to share the same vision about the company and an efficient way of working. Without this advantage, insecurity, gossip is inserted, cliques form, and there is no unity, cohesion. Ineffective team in the vision of author Patrick Lencioni? It sends us to the hierarchical pyramid, where trust is the foundation, the base, the structure.
- Absence of trust
- Fear of conflicts
- Lack of commitment
- Avoidance of responsibility
- Inattention to results (Source: “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”, Patrick Lencioni)
Trust under experiements
Why do people trust each other?
It is in our nature to trust others, but not always. There is a neurological signal that tells us whether to trust someone or not.
To measure trust and its reciprocity, Paul J. Zak used a method developed by researchers in Vernon Smith’s laboratory, a Nobel Prize winner in economics. The experiment shows how a participant chooses an amount of money to send to a stranger through a laptop, knowing that the money will triple and understanding that the recipient can either choose to share the winnings or not. This creates a conflict: the recipient can either keep all the money or be trustworthy and share it with the sender.
The level of oxytocin was measured during the exchange
For this experiment, it was decided to take blood samples from the participants before and after they made the decision to trust others (if they were senders) or to be trustworthy (if they were receivers).
The participants had no clue about the purpose or outcome of the study. It was observed that the more money people received, the more oxytocin their brains produced. The amount of oxytocin produced by the recipients indicated how trustworthy they were if they shared the winnings. The brain constantly generates chemical messengers, and changes in oxytocin levels were observed. To prove that oxytocin induces trust, the team safely administered doses of synthetic oxytocin to the human brain (via a nasal spray). A comparison was made between those who received a real dose and those who were given a placebo.
It was concluded that 24 IU of synthetic oxytocin doubled the amount of money sent to a stranger. Using a variety of psychological tests, it was shown that those who received oxytocin remained cognitively intact. They did not take more risks if they were in a gambling game, so the increase in trust was not related to neural disinhibition.
Oxytocin seems to do this well—it reduces the fear of trusting a stranger.