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Your Responsibilities as a Team Leader

Team Start-up Kit


  • Organize the team.
  • Explain and use team goals and objectives.
  • Ensure that goals and objectives are perceived as attainable.
  • Create and maintain channels to enable team members to do their work.
  • Follow through on action assignments.
  • Report team progress and decisions made to concerned groups.
  • Give guidance to team members.
  • Encourage communication among team members.
  • Ensure that all team members contribute, by working with those who need help (a sure way to undermine a team is to ignore its non-performers).
  • Match people to jobs.
  • Assure that each member receives team-based compensation or recognition.

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