Leader Learns - Lessons From the Floor

Building Trust Several years ago, when I became a project lead for the first time, I had a group of young people reporting to me. I was new to this world of leading decent sized team, having been an individual consultant for a long time and then leading a small team of 4 to 6 people for a short duration. Suddenly I felt I was all alone in this vast ocean... all by myself... I read a few articles on leadership, but I was not clear where to start. So I went to my boss with several questions. Post a long discussion, I learnt that one of the important factors is to build trust. I quickly learnt that to gain trust from my people, I had to trust them first. Not only should I trust them but also make it loud and clear that I trust them. That was the difficult part, making people know and understand that I trusted them.  The first thing I did was ensure that I met my people regularly both officially (as formal meetings, in small group discussions) or unofficially over a coffee

Greetings Over the last month or so, I have been thinking to write a blog on what I have learned in leading a large multi-cultural, multi-location team for a few years. This is THE START. I plan to write about things that have impacted me, the lessons that I learnt from my teams, lessons from the floor which made a good lead (some may acknowledge and others will not :) ) and a better person ( which I will acknowledge). Plan to post short articles every weekend, starting this weekend and looking for your support in forms of comments and responses. Regards Raghu