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As a team leader, what major challenges and problems did you face?

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Question added by Rana Alnajjar , Web developer , Lebcards
Date Posted: 2015/07/23
Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

  1. Motivation
  2. Communication
  3. Mix of people
  4. Competence and skills
  5. Cooperation and sharing
  6. Leadership
  7. Time management

Hani Ayyad
by Hani Ayyad , Drama and Communication and Speech Skills Teacher , Aqaba International School

Well, we can't say "problems", but Indeed "Big Challenges", the main one is how to focus on each member, to give them feelings that I am not ignoring him/her. 

 

Hani

working with slow team members who do not meet the deadline and give poor resuts not quality as required

Sharif Hijazy
by Sharif Hijazy , Senior Translator and Editor , Al-Motahida

Getting competing members of the team to rise above their rivalry and live up to the challenges facing the team as a whole can sometimes be a real challenge. 

Priscilla Anbanandan
by Priscilla Anbanandan , PMP® - IT Project Manager , IBM India Pvt. Ltd

 

As a team leader, how much ever you try, you CANNOT please your immediate ascendings and decsendings on your organizational chart at the same time.

If you chose to please your subordinates, you will automatically fail to please your Supervisor and vice versa. There can never be a balance between the two unless everyone's on the same page which becomes rarely practical 

 

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

I am Agree with All Expert Answers And Mr. Vinood Answer

 

Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

I fully agree with the answers been added by EXPERTS..............Thanks.

100% employee utilization without overloading individuals.

Developing a good skill set to achieve target on time without having team member reassigned or fired.

In short, my challenge is always human resource management to keep project team100% engaged at100% of time.

Michael Finner
by Michael Finner , BPM Technical Writer , Belcan

All of them!  Keeping motivated, motivating others, dealing with a bad boss, bad organization, unfair situations, you name it.  Hang around long enough you'll see almost everything.  On the other hand, you see a lot of good, and can do a lot of good too.

ARFAAN GUJJAR
by ARFAAN GUJJAR , Technical Sales & Procurement Manager , SPACE GENERAL

One and important thing is to keep right direction only.

Turbaashu Bhattacharya
by Turbaashu Bhattacharya , Cluster Head-Corporate & SME Channel , SREI Equipment Finance Ltd

I am listing the top ten challenges faced by the Team Leader which has to be overcome in order to achieve Success.

Challenge1: Being Clear About What You Want To Achieve

A lot of people talk about mission statements and the importance of having a clear vision. In reality getting crystal clear about what you want to achieve is really tough and yet without clarity it is difficult to brief others.

Challenge2: Getting The Buy-In Of People

Unless you have followers you are not a leader and not leading a team. Winning hearts and minds is tough, especially when proposing something different. Being able to step into others shoes is a major benefit.

Challenge3: Responding To Different Agendas

Different people want different things from their work, their employer and boss. Responding to these different demands and agendas is tough.

Challenge4: Handling Resistance

Resistance will come up whatever you try to do. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to in order to hold on to things, even those things that they don’t like when they face uncertainty.

Challenge5: Keeping People Engaged

Many studies have identified that as few as20% of people are actively engaged in the organisational agenda. Disengagement hurts organisations in terms of productivity, customer satisfaction and profits so don’t underestimate the importance of keeping people engaged.

Challenge6: Handling Negativity

Some people are said to be glass half full people while others are glass half empty. In those situations where the glass half full dominate they can drag down even the most optimistic team members.

Challenge7: Impatience

We all to some extent want quick results and the reality is that anything significant takes time to achieve.

Challenge8: Remaining Positive Personally

You are a human being not a robot. In the face of a tidal wave of despondency it can be really tough to stay positive.

Challenge9: Getting The Balance Right

There is a fine line between pushing people to hard and being a soft touch and it is tough to get it right.

Challenge10: The High Jump Factor

When you achieve anything just like in the high jump the bar is raised to another level. As a consequence you are under constant pressure to continually raise the game of your team and yourself.

The Bottom Line: Leading a team can look really easy from the outside looking in. The reality is often very different.

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