Team leader Blog

THE core aim of Teamology is about an individual teamworker knowing what they can do to make a difference to the way a team is working. There are different types of people associated with teams and one of those types is the team leader. This blog reflects that aim.

21 April 2008 - I was coaching a team leader the other day, we were trying to develop a series of headings to check over for every session. It turned into what she called the most revealing session of her working life. She felt that until that moment she had been walking around in the trees with out a map or a compass, just focusing on jobs that came in front of her, from emails, letters, calls and people just dropping in. She had got to the point of believing that she existed to respond to those. When the map was in place she started dealing with matters in a different way. She still responded but the responses were different. In addition to that, reactive became proactive. She knew what needed to be focused on and once a day she checked that she had focused on those areas and in so doing recognised what needed doing and what did not. I reckon that awareness of what is important can make a great difference to what you achieve at work and how you feel about it. Three 1 hour phone coaching sessions would be a good way of developing just that.