Team Work
As a team leader you always have to focus on the strong points of your team members. If you focus on their weaknesses you become a bully that every one hates and surely at the end the end this is not the way to progress in life:
Treat researchers well so always like to come and work with you:
By taking responsibility that helps people to work with, when blames are thrown at ever one then that is not an environment for group work:
How to identify a selfish way of thinking, its shows up in separation, Egoism, resentment, blame, power and pride:
Your first team work project will very much be described like the following picture, hence try to always build on it and never say this is the last time because it will never be:
Any team requires a team leader, the following quote shows some of the leadership characteristics , meaning that you need to give hope to your group, its not about what title you have or degree or grade. Its about that you hold the required skills to achieve the task. Its always looking at people as humans and respecting them, with time they will figure out how good you are once subjected to other stresses of life. That is why the more experience you have as an individual in working in groups the faster you become in recognizing leaders:
The reasons for people joining groups and working together, for a research group the more the 8 mentioned points are implemented the higher the efficiency of the group will be. As long as the group looks at the goal then this will lessen the friction between team members, this is why the role of the team leader is so essential:
This also shows that prior correct selection of the team members is important, where by them having the proper skills can make a big difference to getting to the project goals. If these skills are missing then team members have to be trained to acquire these skills.
What are the obsticals for team work, being aware of the challenges always helps in over coming them:
Firstly what causes conflict is the unclear job expectations from both sides, this happens either to personality clash or due to lack of understanding of one party deeply in a certain technical issue. The second point is based on wrong management of funds, making one task of the project to consume more of the required budget from other tasks.
Team Work Problems
I found this list very useful to people to verify what are the team problems from the perspective of team members making an assessment to the group leader:
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