What is a Team Captain/Leader's Role?

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html

1.Know yourself and seek self-improvement - In order to know yourself, you have to understand your be, know, and do, attributes. Seeking self-improvement means continually strengthening your attributes. This can be accomplished through self-study, formal classes, reflection, and interacting with others.

2.Be technically proficient - As a leader, you must know your job and have a solid familiarity with your employees' tasks.

3.Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions - Search for ways to guide your organization to new heights. And when things go wrong, they always do sooner or later — do not blame others. Analyze the situation, take corrective action, and move on to the next challenge.

4.Make sound and timely decisions - Use good problem solving, decision making, and planning tools.

5.Set the example - Be a good role model for your employees. They must not only hear what they are expected to do, but also see. We must become the change we want to see - Mahatma Gandhi

6.Know your people and look out for their well-being - Know human nature and the importance of sincerely caring for your workers.

7.Keep your workers informed - Know how to communicate with not only them, but also seniors and other key people.

8.Develop a sense of responsibility in your workers - Help to develop good character traits that will help them carry out their professional responsibilities.

9.Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished - Communication is the key to this responsibility.

10.Train as a team - Although many so called leaders call their organization, department, section, etc. a team; they are not really teams...they are just a group of people doing their jobs.

11.Use the full capabilities of your organization - By developing a team spirit, you will be able to employ your organization, department, section, etc. to its fullest capabilities.

I came across this when I was taking one of RPI's Professional Development classes and have had it bookmarked since.