How to act when it comes to deal with a situation when you are supposed to handle a team!! Like a Manager, who assigns duties to people around or like a Leader who takes part in team activities to complete the given task. This whole discussion of acting as a manager or leader has been there in corporate life or even in your personal life for long time.
You are assigned with a task and now you are expected to complete the same in given time. Now the first task is to know about the team and primarily their working style to understand the duties to be assigned among team according to their abilities and efforts. Whereas manager bounds his responsibility to that extent where the subordinates are assigned and elaborated the duties than leader prefers to ascertain his/her role in the completion of given task. We will discuss the traits of leader here.
Human being is genetically and culturally programmed to take charge and make things happen, like you are born to do this only. Many renowned speakers, people from corporate life or your social economical group always suggest that either to Take Control and Create Followers or Give Control and Create Leaders which is basic ingredient of successful life. The very basic idea of giving control of things which are happening to those who are directly engaged or effected by is to promote the psychological ownership among them.
This psychological ownership provides chance to develop a person who is supposed to discharge any duty with more freedom of thinking and it will create an environment where responsibility to find a solution to any situation shifts on them. Now they need to discover the answer to that situation by taking lead of research and discussions with people to come up with a logical solution to any situation where they prove that they are logical and competent enough to work at their own and they don’t need directions all the time. It also creates sense of responsibility among them to work hard and excel in all situations.
Always remember to Give control to people with their professional or technical competency and clarity of orders and organizational requirements for any task or say what would be the results of subsequent actions. Another aspect to this process is to know this clearly that whether the action which needs to be taken is right for the organization and helpful to improve the work quality, at the same time it is beneficial for the mass.
Few benefits when you give control to the people for certain tasks are that;
- Now they will start thinking for better solution in their own way.
- Now more than one mind is working on to find the logical solution.
- Remember it is always a better Decision when it is not the same decision because now you have more options to choose from, may be the alternate which came across due to differences in opinion is something you never thought of or is more useful and beneficial to work upon.
- Differences in opinion are also beneficial because now you are equipped with more information as this information provides base to take any decision.
- Given that the liberty and ownership of taking decisions is shifted to them now they will work more actively, they will think more rational which will enhance their knowledge and abilities to work, they will become more creative and will work with passion and enthusiasm.
Listening to ‘Yes’s is always like you are talking to yourself. Create an environment where people start thinking that their manager or leader is standing right behind them to assist or support their moves while they take any decision, it will create that sense of responsibility in them to initiate and perform all the time and most importantly they feel like they ‘Matter’. Ultimately you will feel like everybody is thinking same and working for the same goal and direction.
Believe that nothing is hard only if you take risks and make decisions on the right time and place. It needs great courage to take decisions when you are solely responsible for big picture when your decisions will affect other people. It is advisable to do the proper research and have the facts right when you are the active authority.
It is said better late than never so whether you are born to lead or need to inject those leadership skills in you this is the time and place to prove your mettle.
