After a military career, a decade in contractor work, and 3.5 years in Pentagon work....I came to a number of lessons learned on supervising an office. There are three essential talents you need....if you want a happy team.
1. Ability to delegate.
If you don't feel enough trust within your group to delegate a fair amount of the work, then you will be working fifty-plus man-hours each week, and burn yourself out in six months.
2. Having a decent amount of intuition.
If you are passed some task, and it looks like 80-percent crap....then it probably is crap, and you need to dump it.
If your organization is headed to some leadership debacle, and you can see various signs of this....either rectify the situation, or leave as quickly as possible.
3. Finally, having a sense of humor and seeing positives always in some manner....brings confidence to the team when chaos confronts them.
This is often not something that you can train for or develop.....either you have it or you don't.
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