This course captures my years of experience in leading teams. The material is kept succinct, and full of basic horse sense. You shall be able to develop a vivid image in your mind, enabling automatic recall for application in all spheres of your daily life.
Do you sense that your team does not work up to or beyond their potential? Do you hesitate to provide feedback to your team members? Do you feel that your delegation style does not get the work done? Do you fear leading a team? If you answered 'Yes' to any of the above questions, this course is definitely for you.
Most people climb the corporate ladder from technical roles to team management roles. The technical role demands an individual's best performance whereas the team management role demands a leader's ability to bring out the best performance from his/her team while balancing all the constraints. If you do not have the right thought process to lead a team, your learning and team's progress would be slow, cumbersome, and challenging. The course provides the ideas that you shall implement to guide your team towards a pleasant and memorable experience.
1- Why is the course material so short? Brevity [minimum possible video length] is a design feature and not a flaw. Capturing years of knowledge in 50 minutes course was a demanding yet worth doing experience. The intention is to share a mental framework that's crisp, robust, easy to recall, and free of jargon. I provided a concise framework so that you can explore deeper into the right mental ideas.
2- What are the key principles that make humans stay focused and resilient while working in a team? This course is an attempt to answer this question. The list contains principles that were personally used and validated over the years in a real team environment. But the list is sufficient for anyone to start making an impact in their current ecosystem.
3- What’s the basis of these principles? The basis is my personal and professional experiences. In 15+ years of my professional work life, I was a Team Lead for 4 years and an Engineering Manager for 6 years. These roles provided opportunities to lead teams (sizing from 7 to 65 people) in various domains such as Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Test Automation. Those experiences made me learn all these principles, apply them in the team environment and judge their impact. My team’s performance always surpassed the ecosystems defined benchmarks. My journey to learn and refine these principles took years due to a lack of a consolidated body of knowledge. This course curates all those learnings in principles form so that any learner around the globe could design a system that performs better than average.
4- What is a leader's most important task while leading a team? In my opinion, he must design a system that works to achieve the goals at hand. The discussed principles may sound very simple, but they are immensely effective. For you to believe in their powers, you must actively look for the opportunities to apply them, and reflect on the feedback so that your learning is reinforced.
With the help of this course, you have the unique opportunity to learn one of the important life skills in a very short span. The material is comprehensive, structured, and full of horse sense. I enjoyed curating it and trust that you will enjoy learning from it.
If you come on board, I wish you a joyful learning experience!!!
