Leadership Beginnings: Assemble Your Team Part 2

 It's been a while since my previous post. I hope you are having a wonderful time.

In my previous post, we saw how there is the need for every leader to get a team and some important reasons why you should assemble your team if you take the path of a leader. Also, I promised to share with you in this post how you can put together the right people for a successful journey in leadership.

It is obvious that there is no leadership without followership and before you can become a good leader, you need to learn how to follow. That aside, let me serve you with some tips on how to assemble an effective team.



Before you try to recruit, there are two things you must consider:

The Collective Goal: 
As a leader, anytime you set out to recruit let your goal be the first yardstick. Your goal is to develop other leaders who can do what you do. Everyone on your team may have their personal goals and so before you recruit, make sure the person's goal is not so different from your own. In my previous post, I talked about Synergy and how it is important in the path of a leader. Imagine you are trying to pluck apples from an apple tree and there's an individual with the same goal of getting some of those apples but you are both not tall enough to reach them. In this scenario, it would be in the best interest of you both if one carried the other on their shoulder and then be able to reach the apples. However, if the person is rather trying to get mangoes from the mango tree and you try to team up with him, you are likely to waste a lot of time and effort pursuing the two different goals and that is not the best. Always see to it that the goals of your recruit(s) are in line with yours and that of the team as a whole.


Special Ability:
A team is like an organism. Every member has what it does. By Special Ability I don't mean superpowers but rather what will the member contribute and how will that help the team reach its goal? When recruiting or assembling your team check out for potentials (what the person is good at that can help the team) and pick the ones necessary for your team, be it peak communicative competence or sheer determination to never give up.


It is imperative that each and everyone factors these issue into their plans when building a team. Then again, you may not be a leader or you aspire to be one but once in a while, you may be required to join a team in order to achieve a goal or more. That is when you would be needing this knowledge to ascertain the value of the team; what is each member bringing on board and does the team stands up to the task ahead? Always ask these questions as an assessment for your team and you would always be on top of your game. Until next time, have a wonderful adventure.


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