What Makes A Poor Team Leader?

What Makes A Poor Team Leader? by blueboy

In this article I will be describing what I believe makes a poor team leader. I have had a number of particularly bad team leaders in my own career thus far and feel that I am rather qualified to write about this subject. By understanding what constitutes a poor team leader can actually help people to become a better team leader; this may be at the present time or at some point in the future. I am currently in charge of a team of ten people and the knowledge has certainly helped me.

Communication

If the team leader is unable to communicate effectively to their team then it is virtually impossible for them to be a good team leader. What I mean by communication is not just an ability to be able to speak fluently but to be able to speak in a clear, concise, confident and positive way.

Discipline

A team leader in a way has to be good and bad cop. They need to have an ability to heap praise, where due, but they also should be able to become tough when required. If you have a team of eight people and one of this group constantly fails to pull their weight or is always phoning in with some form of sickness then it is up to the team leader to take control.

If the person in question is seen to get away with it then the other team members can quickly become demoralised and are in danger of starting to think something along the lines of; well if they can get away with why shouldn’t I?

Motivation

A team leader should be able to keep their team motivated throughout the working week. An unhappy team is unlikely to be able to produce the goods and the level of quality is likely to go down.

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