| In this article I will be describing what I | | | | A team leader in a way has to be good and bad |
| believe makes a poor team leader. I have had | | | | cop. They need to have an ability to heap |
| a number of particularly bad team leaders in | | | | praise, where due, but they also should be |
| my own career thus far and feel that I am | | | | able to become tough when required. If you |
| rather qualified to write about this subject. | | | | have a team of eight people and one of this |
| By understanding what constitutes a poor team | | | | group constantly fails to pull their weight |
| leader can actually help people to become a | | | | or is always phoning in with some form of |
| better team leader; this may be at the | | | | sickness then it is up to the team leader to |
| present time or at some point in the future. | | | | take control. |
| I am currently in charge of a team of ten | | | | |
| people and the knowledge has certainly helped | | | | If the person in question is seen to get away |
| me. | | | | with it then the other team members can |
| | | | quickly become demoralised and are in danger |
| Communication | | | | of starting to think something along the |
| | | | lines of; well if they can get away with why |
| If the team leader is unable to communicate | | | | shouldn't I? |
| effectively to their team then it is | | | | |
| virtually impossible for them to be a good | | | | Motivation |
| team leader. What I mean by communication is | | | | |
| not just an ability to be able to speak | | | | A team leader should be able to keep their |
| fluently but to be able to speak in a clear, | | | | team motivated throughout the working week. |
| concise, confident and positive way. | | | | An unhappy team is unlikely to be able to |
| | | | produce the goods and the level of quality is |
| Discipline | | | | likely to go down. |
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