PROVIDE FOR YOUR TEAM MATES

PROVIDE FOR YOUR TEAM

Ayo Emakhiomhe.

When entrusted with leadership as a team leader, you become a typical farmer with seeds to grow.

The seeds here are your subordinates/colleagues; the field is your organization

The job of leadership is a 2 lane road where you have the first task of leading yourself and then leading others around you.

Using John Maxwell as a guide, Success on this assignment means personal success for you also. But I must admit from the onset that this is not an easy assignment. To succeed at this job, you must provide for your seeds (team mates)

To provide for your team mates means that you must equip them to realize their full potential on the job and achieve their God-given potentials too. Your primary assignment is to reproduce yourself in your subordinates. And to effectively reproduce yourself means that you have to PROVIDE for your subordinates. To do this means that you have to be;

PURPOSEFUL: Approach others with a purpose; to add value. Set a target each day that your colleagues will be better off today than they were in the morning when they came to work because they interacted with you.

RELATIONAL: you have to be warm and inviting and work at having and maintaining healthy relationships.

OBJECTIVE: assess strengths and weaknesses objectively. Share job functions to your colleagues based on this assessment and not on favoritism.

VULNERABLE: model self disclosure, honesty and transparency always.

INCARNATIONAL: practice what you preach

DEPENDABLE: be consistent and responsible in all your dealings

EMPOWERING: give power away and train your staff CONTINUOSLY

RESOURCEFUL: use every tool at your disposal to grow your people. The bible says that only a bad workman curseth his tools.

To achieve the above as a provider, the following 8 steps are essential

1.  Labour: be ready to fold your sleeves and dive into the work with your staff, don’t just lord it over them.

2.  Strength: you have to push yourself and your team beyond the limits.

3.  Learning: when you stop learning, you and your team start dying. Learning must always go with teaching. Learning produces growth.

4.  Focus: don’t allow any form of distraction. Don’t drift from the organisations goals; write it somewhere and let all decisions be guided by this. Let this pattern tinker down to your team mates.

5.  Accountability: ensure that at all times you are as accountable to your people as they are accountable to you.

6.  Experience: make sure that every day is an experience and that all experience, no matter how small (be it positive or negative) is used as a learning point.

7.  Practice: always apply learned experiences.

8.  Celebration: always celebrate victories and milestones no matter how small.

As the man at the helm of affairs, your team success defines your success. For your team to succeed you have to provide for them and engage the items listed above and you will always stand out and be celebrated.

Today is a good day to be the best leader, what are you waiting for? PROVIDE for your team.

emakhiomheayo@yahoo.com

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