August Book Club Closing Webinar – A Team of Leaders; Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results: Q&A

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The August Book Club Q&A Closing Webinar –  A Team of Leaders; Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results was packed with information, and below are the extra questions and answers that came out of that session.

1. Current society is educated, where most of the team people are educated and are aware of the process or work or task to be accomplished. Is a leader really required?
In the early stages, a team leader is required. In our A Team of Leaders book (in Chapter I), we state that leadership is a set of activities and tasks that we believe can be shared at the early stages of team development. As the team evolves toward becoming a team of leaders, the leadership tasks are shared amongst the team and the formal leader is freed up to do more strategic tasks.

2. How to be in the good books of my functional manager and my team members, given that I do good work? I am able to deliver a project every three days. I now want to build good relationships with team members and my functional manager. I am already somewhat in their good books. But sometimes I experience extreme and unexpected fluctuations. How to minimize these fluctuations and experience consistency in my work relationships with my team owner and team members?
Frequent communication is the best approach. When there are fluctuations, keep everyone in the…

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