Challenges faced by young team leaders

Have you been recently elevated to the profile of a team leader and are wondering, how you will be able to effectively lead the team? Or you have been in a team leader’s profile for less than a year now, and are facing challenges in managing the team. This article tries to figure out challenges faced by young team leader at some point or the other. And by putting things in proper perspective, how you can transform yourself into an effective team leader.

• Balancing Delegation and Supervision – The biggest challenge faced by young team leaders is that they find it very difficult to delegate important jobs and processes to their team members. Team leaders feel that they are perfectionist and hence they try to do important jobs on their own. They lack faith in the abilities of their team members and fear that if they delegate, the team members will not do the job with perfection and sincerity. Hence they prefer to do the job on their own than to get it done through their subordinates. On the other hand, we have team leaders who delegate work to the team members and then don’t supervise the progress as well as quality of work at all. The result is the assigned job goes for a toss and performance of boss as well as team is adversely affected. As a team leader, one needs to put proper checks and controls in all processes. He should be on top of everything that is concerned with his team.

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Seven habits that will bring happiness in our life

  

Have you ever wondered what could be the secret recipe for a life full of happiness? What we all learn from experience is that material things like electronic gadgets, big car, beautiful house etc though give us a feeling of happiness but it is short lived. Till the time we don’t have them, we think it’s one of the many important things that can bring happiness in our life. But once we own them, slowly over time, it no more excites us. Today we will talk about 7 habits that we need to make part of day to day life that will bring everlasting happiness in our life.

• Empathy – Empathy is the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions. I was travelling in a crowded metro train few days back when I saw a young boy carrying bag on his back. It was causing inconvenience to lot of co passengers. So an elderly gentleman requested “Young man, please put down your bag so that passengers can stand comfortably”. The young boy replied arrogantly “But uncle, I am more comfortable putting bag on my back”.

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Please take charge of your life

We all are familiar with the story of Hanuman being punished with a curse in his childhood by Lord Brahma. Bewildered by that curse, Hanuman forgot about his might, his infinite powers and abilities and began acting like an ordinary Vanara. He finally again remembered his power when Jambavan reminded him at the time of searching for Sita.

I believe in today’s world, just like Hanuman most of us have forgotten our infinite powers and living ordinary lives. And the sad part is, there is no one like Jambavan who reminds us of our true potential. Through this article, we will try to figure out where have we gone wrong in our lives.

Let’s start by asking ourselves a very basic question. How many of us have ever penned down our Goals – Academic Goals, Personal Goals, Professional Goals, Financial Goals, Fitness Goals, Short term goals, Long term goals. You may be thinking, what big deal,  i already know that setting goals is important.  But my question is, you know this but have you penned down your goals? And if yes are these goals measurable? I am sure 95% of us don’t write goals. Also tell me can you write down 10 new things that you have done in last 6 months that will take you closure to your goals. Just imagine, if this is our seriousness and attitude towards one of the most important things in life, then do we deserve success. If our goals are not definitive and measurable, we don’t have a road map for achieving our goals, what are we going to achieve and how.

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