No formal leader? Step!

 By Gina Abudi, on January 28, 2014

I was talking with a friend recently who complained that she had been his mistress for a team that had no formal leader identified. Vice President, who pulled the team did so based on the skills and experience of the members of the band have, but do not link team leader. He asked them to work together to come to a solution to the problem within the framework of the organization.

A friend of mine complaint was that without team leader in place seemed a bit disjointed overall. We all ran in different directions and, although there seemed to be some great ideas (mainly shared by several members of the team), no one seemed to be pulling out all the ideas together to decide how to go forward with the plan. In addition, team meetings are a mess! Members or do not appear at all, appeared at the end, or whether other work during the meeting. Nothing was accomplished!

A friend of mine is a natural leader. She often stepping up to leadership role in many initiatives, in which he served, so I was surprised to hear her complaint. I asked her why she didn't just step into the lead role, to get the team moving forward. She mentioned that she asked Vice President for team leader and told her that he felt that the teams are better when the leader was assigned, but rather the band worked it between themselves. His experience was that a team leader tried to control too much, and inhibits the team overall.

Therefore, my friend felt that it wouldn't make sense to step up the role of leader, since there was no desire for Vice President. She's wrong. Not to say that she could not take on a leadership role, I just replied to its request that he attributed to the leader of the team that did not want to do.

The most important, "said my friend, to reach out to others and ask if the meeting can take place to the front of the project. Provide a number of options for the date and time to meet and provide a provisional agenda. Ask other members of the team to add to the agenda. Focus daily on this meeting as follows:

An explanation of the problem to solve (basically to ensure everyone understands the problem in the same way.)Brainstorming and ideas to solve the problem.Narrowing of the ideas to a handful of viable options.Compilation of smaller sub-teams forward and assess possibilities for further.

The second meeting will be held then to sub-teams report on their progress.

As a best practice, you should not fear to step into a leadership role, when you work on a team, which is not a formal leader. Someone has to step up! You can perform a "soft" approach as suggested above. No dictates in this situation, rather you are putting forward suggests an approach to move forward and asks for input. If others have input, they will provide.

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