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Being a good team leader is not easy. It is your responsibility to manage everything about the people and the positions you oversee. Good team leaders create an environment in which attorneys and staff work hard, are loyal, and add to profitability. Setting expectations and goals is an essential step in becoming an effective team leader. Make a commitment this year to up your management skills with these two key techniques.
|Your role as a team leader is to clarify expectations related to specific tasks, overall performance, and behavior. When you add a new team member, you typically do not know whether that individual will succeed and grow in the role or fail. Current team members have an idea of what is expected and how to do what is required, but they still need guidance. Whether new or existing it's never too late to establish, clarify, and discuss expectations.
|In business as in life we can only move forward if we know the direction we are going. As a team leader it is your responsibility to help your team move in a direction that is aligned with performance expectations. The best managers work hand in hand with their direct reports in developing goals that are associated with expectations. The goals should be geared toward achieving day to day work accomplishments as well as their professional aspirations. All goals whether short term or long term should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented, and within a defined Timeframe (SMART).
|When you communicate expectations and set goals you help your team understand their impact on the entire team as well as the firm. This ultimately leads to higher engagement, motivation, and productivity.
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