Team Management (Collins Business Secrets)

There are times as a team manager when you have to let people go, even if you would prefer to keep them.

Ultimately you have to ‘manage out’ people who won’t work within the team; otherwise you don’t have a team.

Are you achieving the best you could in life?

• Do you want to work with people who you don’t trust?

If you don’t manage your boss, no one else will, and your team will suffer.

Seek out clarification of all aspects of the objectives being passed down.

There is no place in a team for people who think they are inherently better than their team mates.

thinking of them as a unit that needs to be protected

If you can’t trust your team then you will not be confident that they will work without you watching. If they can’t trust you, then they won’t believe that you are worth working for

A real team manager works for the team. Without a team there is no job for a manager, so the manager’s role is to be a ‘servant leader’ to the team.