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Leading a team can be a challenge. There are many different personalities with their own desires, goals, agendas and perspectives.

So what are my best secrets of leading a team?

Secret 1: Aim to be consistent
• Don’t be the leader who is the split personality. Have a style and try to stick to it.

Secret 2: Take an interest in others

• Leaders need followers. The best way to build followers is to be interested in their success.

Secret 3: Be clear on expectations

• Despite what you think, people prefer clarity on what is expected of them to vagueness.

Secret 4: Provide support

• Teams have ups and downs. Support them through the good and not so good times.

Secret 5: Determine people’s motivators

• If you don’t know what makes people tick, how can you ever expect to motivate them?

Secret 6: Give feedback routinely

• People thrive on feedback. Make a point of giving feedback routinely.

Secret 7: Paint a picture

• The clearer the picture you can paint of where you want to get to, the better.

Secret 8: Build trust

• As someone said to me recently, “No trust equals no team”.

Secret 9: Keep it all in perspective

• Sometimes, especially when the going gets tough, it is easy to lose sight of the relative importance of things. Learn to keep things in perspective.

I wonder what secrets you would add?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

Reality 1:
• You need to give the team a clear outcome.

Reality 2:

• People on teams are more likely to embrace decisions if they are involved.

Reality 3:

• Trust is key to any successful team.

Reality 4:

• The team members need to be aligned behind a common purpose or outcome.

Reality 5:

• You need to know how to get the best from every team member.

What other suggestions would you add to the list of realities?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here