What kind of personality would you select for your team? Nobody wants a challenging team member; we want our projects completed without any road blocks.
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We tend to select those with the same personality to avoid challenges, why? Because we think that those with different personalities might oppose our opinions.
The truth is, we are missing opportunities. An Active team is a team that has members who posses different personalities. They complete each other.
In my teenage years, my classmates motivated me to lead a group to organize a summer picnic. That was a big deal for me, a summer picnic?
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I was motivated and imagined myself leading the group to plan a killer picnic; all the chicks surrounding me, and everyone else congratulating me for a job well done. What a dream! Instead, I started giving orders to the group; you know where this was going.
I thought I was killing it. To make a long story short, I blew it and ended up doing almost all the planning by myself. If you ask me to do the same thing today, I’d instead motivate my team members to plan the picnic.
A good leader knows how to lead a team to a destination without giving commands. This quality of leadership is rare, especially when we want to accomplish more with less people.
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In my first job for non-for-profit organization, I scheduled maintenance for eight cars. Even though I was not their direct supervisor, I worked closely with the drivers. We tracked the mileage of these cars to schedule the maintenance. Soon I realized that I was not getting what I wanted because of the way I was requesting it.
