If you want to have a strong team you have to have strong team members. That applies to Project Teams as well as to functional teams. One way to grow your team is to ask for advice from your team before a decision is made. This gives the team a possibility to contribute and to help you form an opinion before a decision is made. This is very different from going back to the team after a decision has been made and then explain why you did what you did. For most Leaders there are so many tasks to be done that you can't do them all by yourself. You need help, sooner or later. If you try to do it all by yourself you get burnt out quickly. Therefore I consider it the responsibility of a leader to develop other leaders. What do you do in your team to develop leaders? Here are some benefits of developing leaders in your organization: They can help you to
- see things you might not want to see,
- get things done
- make better decisions
- provide security and direction to others
