Are you contemplating making the move into a team leader position?
Or are you currently just curious as to the qualities of a great team leader? It’s fairly different to a pure technical role - diverse skills are involved and not everybody is able to effectively make the conversion from a technical role into a team leader. However, having or building on most of the skills below will help.
Good Communication
Great team leaders learn how to speak properly. Communication isn’t just about chatting - it’s about listening, writing, and making use of non-verbal methods of communication including body language.
Team leaders have to be able to communicate with different kinds of people
- their managers, people in their teams, and also other team managers in the company or project.
Keeping Calm Under Pressure
If I was to choose one response to the question, “What makes a great team leader?”, it would be this point. Just about the most important skills to have as a team leader is the ability to keep calm under pressure. Deadlines are a part of IT jobs.
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