effective team leader by Awa Diallo

The assignment about meetings and interviews got me thinking about this manager that I had in my last workplace. To get workers interest about the meetings, he always tries to include activities that will involve all attenders’ participation. As I explained in a previous post, he included a sort of award ceremony in the weekly meetings in order to get employees involved and interested about the company’s key performance indicators, and all in a fun a way.

Therefore, during the whole week, employees always do their best in order to improve the company’s status; he was also able to implement a good competition spirit within the same team. That means we will still compete to get the best results, be we were all aware that all our efforts were to make the team perform well.

I think he was able to perform this well regarding those meetings because he was genuinely interested about the workers, and he had strong managerial and people skills. Even though he was a senior manager leading a group of employees half his age, he was able to find out what would get them more interested and increase their implication at the workplace.

Before taking actions, he observed and studied the whole group spirit and he was able to make everyone understand his opinion and feelings about the company, and he was able to make everyone feel the same way: we are all on the same boat and we need, each in our part, work our best, but still with each other, in order to make our boat move forward.