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The Art of Leadership

Geoff Choo

June 20, 2001






In Part 1 of this article, you learned about the key issues to consider in setting up the right corporate climate and getting your team off to the right start. In this article, you will learn some tips to help you grow and lead your teams to success.

You can think of team building as combining and integrating the talents, skills and energy of individual people to solve problems and accomplish goals and objectives that may be difficult or impossible to achieve by management or other individual efforts alone. While you could have a team composed of only designers or engineers, you risk missing out on the broad range of experiences and viewpoints that diversity can bring. In my experience, the best teams typically demonstrate a healthy blend of technical, business, management and interpersonal skills.

Want to bring out the best in your people? Try these tips on for size:

Don't micromanage the team
As project managers, you and I know that our primary job is to deliver projects that satisfy the time, budget and quality triangle.



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