More Time Listening

If you are the team’s leader, your focus should be on spending more time listening and observing what your team members have to say. You have to understand what they hope to accomplish, what would make them feel like they are contributing in a meaningful fashion, and how to make them outward-focused on the team’s needs instead of inward-focused on their own. Remember that irrespective of what title, role, or expertise you bring to the team, the simple truth is that all of you are members of the same team. For those in charge, that means making sure you’re not using your authority to try and control the process to suit yourself. Rather, your goal should be to empower everyone at the table to be full contributors and participants. How leaders can go about achieving this can be seen in many important business principle and experience.