Your Ideal Team Member or Team Leader

I never thought about it, but you're exactly right - that a team leader will have certain qualities to be a good boss, depending on the line of work. However, all team leaders should possess core qualities that are the same across the board. Thanks for your response. I hope someday you will have the opportunity to read the book. It is an excellent reference. Take care, my friend!

All the things you mentioned would most definitely make an excellent team leader! I'm so glad to know you have this type of leader to work for. Doesn't it make work so much more enjoyable? While I have a very good and professional team leader, I wish she had more of these qualities. She's very negative in that she focuses on what her team members do wrong rather than what they do right (and encourage team members, as you mentioned). I would love my team leader to listen more. I mean, she is a great listener in general, but when I mention good changes and things that I would like to see in regard to our team, she does not take them into consideration or implement them even though she is physically listening to what I say. I just try to look at the glass half full because I still have a great boss, and she is very thoughtful in general - things could definitely be worse, so I'm very thankful for having my job for over three years now. It is wonderful to have that income. Thanks so much for sharing a detailed description of the perfect team leader! I'm so glad you can enjoy working for someone so wonderful! Take care - great to hear from you as always!

Thanks for your excellent advice. The more I've thought about it, I definitely agree with you that my review shouldn't turn into a book club, although I can mention it in passing that I'm working on my own personal growth, as you said. Perhaps through my mentioning the book, my team leader would become curious to read it herself. Thanks again for your response. I'm going to do as you've said because I could use a great review this year!

I really like your perspective of team members and team leaders because we all have weaknesses, of course. It's a fact of life. It's all about learning to work despite those weaknesses. I think if we as employees focus on the weaknesses, they will bring us down. That's another big aspect of the book I mentioned. It focuses on the positive rather than the negative and causes employees under its methods to be more productive than they would be otherwise. I agree with you that leadership for the most part must be learned through experience. An ideal situation would be where the team members and team leaders can both help one another to be as efficient as possible. I always looked at it as the employees' responsibility to "make the boss look good," but that's the wrong perspective since the employees don't serve the manager. They work together; however, someone has to be in charge, which is why there have to be leaders! Thanks for your excellent response.

Hi there! Thanks for your honest response - I appreciate learning your opinion because I agree with you. I don't think I should discuss the book in too much detail (or suggest it) because I definitely wouldn't want it to seem like I'm attacking her or implying she isn't the best team lead. That wouldn't be fair to her since it would just be her and myself at the meeting. I'm glad you mentioned this because I didn't think of it in that way, but I'm for sure going with what you said. If I do mention the book at the review, I will more mention it in passing that I'm trying to become a better person, not bashing on her leadership skills - LOL! As for your ideal team leader, I couldn't agree with you more. A patient leader is one of the most important things because you will know that he or she will work with you for as long as it takes to train you because he or she will understand the importance of taking the time with the team member to make sure it's an investment in the future, so to speak. I find it very interesting that you ran a bookstore for a little while! How neat - I would get myself in trouble if I did that because my boss might find me with my nose in a book or taking too long of a break to catch up on some reading! The same would be true of working at the library or something like that because with all those books calling to me, I wouldn't know what to do with myself! (LOL) Thanks so much for responding. I really will take your words of advice to heart and as always it's so wonderful to hear from you!

Hi there! Let me first apologize that it has taken so long for me to choose Best Response on this discussion. I could've done so a while ago - my apologies! As for the content of this discussion, I'll go into detail about it in another upcoming discussion, but I never actually had this review with my team leader. This is because I was hired on at another company before the review took place, so I did not have to confront my prior team leader about any of this, for which I'm very grateful! I thought you deserved to know since you had the BR. It's great news that I have finally been able to move on to a new career! I will definitely share more about it soon. Take care!

Thank you for the best response! I'm glad to know that you have a new and hopefully better job now! I think it would be great if you and I could meet sometime! Because you seem to like my suggestions and comments so much, I think we could be good friends! Didn't you tell me that you had relatives in Moulton, Alabama one time? I seem to remember a discussion you started one time about spending some time in Alabama and I asked you what part of Alabama it was. I think you said it was Moulton. I don't live far from Moulton, myself. If you're ever back down this way in the future, please let me know and maybe we can get together! I would like that so much!