Keeping Your Career on Track: Twenty Success Strategies

Team Leadership

Changing your focus from doing the work to hiring and leading those who do the work is a major step, if not a leap. To successfully make that step you need new skills and an expanded definition of success. The bottom line is still the bottom line, but at the general manager level team leadership is the measure of accomplishment. Successful leaders build and lead effective teams and are described as being good at communicating with the team, motivating the team, delegating, selecting team members who can work together and produce results, and setting clear goals and performance expectations. Consider this story of a manager with ...