From the course: Succeeding as a First-Time Tech Manager
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Creating the goal for your team
From the course: Succeeding as a First-Time Tech Manager
Creating the goal for your team
- As a leader you need to translate the organizational vision into an overarching goal for your team. Your team should be responsible for achieving this goal together. Creating a goal is a critical step, it binds your team together with a shared purpose. When you create a goal for your team, you should make sure that everyone can relate to it and can directly contribute to it. This can be challenging if you're leading teams with diverse skillset. It is very disheartening to be on a team where what you do does not align with the team goals. I recommend creating your team's goal in a workshop setting. As a leader you can be the facilitator in this brainstorming session and let their ideas emerge. This gives the team an opportunity to interpret the vision and find points of intersection with the work that they do on daily basis. Gently guide your team toward a quantifiable and time-bound goal. When your team…
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