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Nikhil headed up the new venture team within his company and came up with an idea for a line of stationery. He passed his idea to the marketing department, who seemed to get nowhere with selling the product internally. Nikhil went to a colleague, Avinash, who was known to be a good decision maker, and got him to further his cause.

Avinash joined up with Reema, a good implementer of ideas, and they formed a new venture team. Together they personally took the new stationery live around to all their senior managers, selling the idea and convincing the managers to put capital into the project. Before they went into the production of the stationery, they decided that they needed a line manager whose management style they liked and who could keep costs down. They recruited Vikas to the team temporarily to set up the manufacturing process.

Develop your role

• Change your leadership style according to the needs of your team;
• Be positive about novel and creative ideas;
• Support the values established by your team;
• Encourage individual and group learning for team's development;
• Be there when the team needs you;
• Welcome innovative ideas and team initiatives;
• Look for your own shortcoming rather that your team every time;
• Dispassionate fact-finding could be used to defuse conflicts;
• Seek solutions from the members who bring problems;
• Analyze well the projects, which go wrong.

 

Think before you spread information

 

Step One:      Double-check all facts and figures.

Step Two:     Inform all people concerned.

Step Three:   Consider complexity of material to be communicated.

Step Four:     Choose a qualified, experienced person to spread message.

Step Five:     Know, why you are spreading the information.

Step Six:       Keep a deadline to follow-up to information.