![]() ![]() Succeeding in this world is about the team. You want your team to go beyond a task list and bring value to your clients. You will need things done at the last minute. One person’s communication will ever be wrong. Specifications will always be incomplete. I haven’t seen any, but any ambitious project executed entirely by the tasks of a boss. What is wrong with assigning tasks to people? The part that I most hate in “Assigning tasks to people” is that task-focused culture. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” - Simon Sink “When people are financially invested, they want a return. That is not a one-person job most of the time, and it cultivates the sense of showing results rather than merely doing my tasks. In Agile, for example, we measure a team's success by their capacity to deliver working products. What will it happen? Will be considered a low performer, the “manager’s problem”. Now imagine a team member struggles with the assignment. If I am assigned a task, I need to make sure that I’m doing my duty and I can, and maybe after, I would see if someone needs help or pick the next task. People = used as the plural of ‘person’ to refer to men, women. There are no emotions, doesn’t create the feeling of contribution, is just an executor. Pat Summitt, former college basketball head coach And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have. Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. Stop assigning tasks to people, but nurture accountability in your team. Now, when I meet managers that define work in all the details and then assign it to people, I stand against it. To show results, to be “profitable” as a team. When I first start to work with a team, my goal is to make them successful together. I believe the success of my career has been in making people achieve goals together. My first goal with any team I work with is to feel important and own their work. ![]() When I first start to work with a team, my first objective is to get them to figure out how to contribute to the organization's success. I worked with many managers and teams worldwide, and I’ve seen a lot of leadership styles. Here comes me, the person who’s been coaching teams to achieve impossible project objectives for more than ten years.
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