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Post by digitaltemujin on Mar 27, 2017 18:39:08 GMT -8
My sales management team is four of us. Two of them i get along nicely enough although I think I'm threatening to one of them, I do however get along great with the third member of our team. Lately, the 3rd member has been talking to me more and more about how we should manage this situation or that. While we don't nessesarily try to make decisions without the other two, I find 3rd and I like to hash out how we feel about a situation before discussing it to the other two managers. We have a great rapport where we are able to discuss how a decision might be perceived by the workers, how to motivate them etc.
Is this good leadership? Or am I unwittingly creating a divide in the group by preferring one member over the others?
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Post by mynewunit on Mar 28, 2017 4:05:44 GMT -8
Lets get back to expectations. The real question is what do the other team members want. In my team, the 2 most senior guys just want to do the work. They don't want to manage projects, write papers, or engage with corporate records. The guys approaching 40 are concerned about what the groups function and direction are. So we get together regularly and chat about what we want to do for work, weaknesses in the group, positions or roles we need to fill. The more senior guys just want to be informed before we try anything that they have to answer for.
I would ask a few other team members what their "direction" is. If they have expectations of retiring from this company, starting their own company, making it to the C-suite. You should try to determine their paths and then find each persons next step. That will help you determine the path of the team. If the 2nd and threatened doesn't care about the management, then this is fine.
Jocko has a section about getting 3 commanders to attack together, required 3 different orders. It is not strange that the team will take different directions to work together well.
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