Great teams are about more than great
leaders. We all need to be great
followers too! Welcome back and
congratulations on taking one more step
towards becoming one of the great leaders of
tomorrow.
Great teams aren't just all about great
leaders. We've got to be great followers
too, and today I've got four tips for you
on how to be a great follower and team
player. And stay tuned until the end, I'm
going to give you a link to download our
free leadership development plan
workbook that will help you set your
career goals for the next two, five and
ten years and build a plan of action to
achieve them. Last week we talked about
how managers and leaders can understand
the Millennials on their team and build
a strong working relationship with them.
But because working relationships and
respect are a two-way street, this week
I'm going to talk about some tips on how
to be a great follower and team player.
And these tips are important for
everyone, no matter what generation
you're from. Whether you're millennial,
baby boomer or Gen X, these tips are
going to help you be a great team player
whether you're the boss, whether you're
just working on the team or whether
you're aspiring to be a great leader. And
let's face it, we all have someone we
need to answer to. Even if you own your
own business, you still have to be
responsive to customers, clients and
possibly even investors. So I'm going to
have four tips for today on how to be a
great player on whatever team you're on
and how to show really good followership,
which is the core of good leadership. Tip
number one is to know and understand
your organization's mission. We all get
really head-down sometimes working on
our tasks and trying to get them done. And
sometimes we can divert off into a
direction that's not really productive
because we're not focused on the
organization's mission. Sometimes we get
so wrapped up in the details that we
forget we're doing this for a bigger
purpose. That's why we're part of a team,
to do something as a higher purpose that
we couldn't do on our own. So recognize
what your organization's mission is,
understand it and try to keep all of
your efforts focused on enhancing that
organization's mission and don't be
afraid to share if you think an idea
doesn't enhance the organization's mission
or isn't going in the same direction.
Work with the people around you to get
all your ideas and all your efforts
focused on achieving your organization's
mission. Tip number two is to know what
your boss is held accountable for. If
you're not the team leader, you don't
always know how your team is being
measured for success.
So you may have a stated mission that
your team is trying to accomplish. You
may be working towards all those things
like we talked about in the last tip, but
what you may not understand is that your
boss, your team leader, might be
accountable for things outside of what
you know about. Your boss's boss may be
measuring the success of your team and
the success of your leader on other
factors that are outside. So get to know
what your boss is being held accountable
for. It may not just be what's going on
on your team. And understand the metrics
by which your team is measured and how
your boss's boss or the leadership of
your organization measured success of
your team so that in addition to working
towards your organization's mission, your
team's mission, you can also be keeping
track of things and showing that you're
making progress in the areas that your
senior leadership expect. Tip number
three is to show initiative. There's
always a lot of things that need to get
done in any organization and the people
who step up and get them done, even if
they're not part of their job
description are greatly appreciated. And
to be honest those are people we look at
in terms of leadership qualifications
and who we're selecting to be team
leaders in the future. So even if
something's not in your job description,
if you see it needs to be done, do it or
put together a small team inside your
team to get it done. But try to get those
things done. Again this comes back to
what your boss is held accountable for.
If there are things that are falling by
the wayside because people just don't
have time to do them, show some
initiative, get those things together, get
those done for your boss and show that
your senior leadership that you're
exhibiting good leadership by exhibiting
good followership and showing initiative
take care of the things that you need to
get done as soon as they need to get
done. Finally, and this is the most
important of these tips, is to present
fully-formed ideas to your boss when you
have them. That's tip number four. Last week
we talked about how managers and leaders
in the organization, with their
Millennials, should be doing some coaching and
guiding and mentoring to get young
Millennials to fully form their ideas
before they present them. Not to say no
to them, but if someone brings a non
fully formed idea, to do mentoring and
coaching. So expect this mentoring and
coaching from your boss, but also try to
meet your boss halfway. Try to be as
thorough as you can when you put
together your ideas to pitch to your
boss. That means recognizing what the
impacts are going to be, not just to you,
but to your team as a whole, and not just
to your team as a whole but to other
teams. Is that in terms of dollars and
money? Is that in terms of
time? If you make a change in your team
you decide to not do a product of a
document that you do on a regular basis,
not do a regular report. Which I'm all
for, I'm all for cutting out the number
of reports we need to write. It's crazy
what we do right now. But if you don't do
this report because it doesn't serve you
but it serves another team, what's the
impact that would be to that team and is
your boss going to be held accountable
for that? So recognize that, put together
these fully formed ideas. What are the
impacts? Not just to you, but to the team.
Not just to your team, but to the outside
of your team. And what will be the
perspectives of others as you pitch
this forward? And we talked several weeks
back about, go coordinate this. Go talk
with the other teams and see how this
will impact them. Bring all that together,
put it in something that's clear and
easy to read, or with a presentation,
practice that presentation. Make your
case really strong when you take it
to your boss. So there are your four tips
for being a great team player and a
great follower because followership is
the core of leadership. Ghat's something
we worked very hard on in the Air Force
is to create great followers to
understand the principles of good
leadership and then they can become
great leaders later on and I hope that
works for you too. So try these four tips
next time you got a proposal, next time
you want to propose something
to your boss and try to make life better
or easier for everyone on your team, put
this together. Show that initiative and
put together a really well thought out
plan, a fully formed idea in your boss. I
think you'll find that you'll be meeting
your boss halfway and you'll have more
conversations about great ideas, instead
of just quick can I do this and the
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remember, the future is out there
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