Young Manager Leading A Team Of Experienced And Elder Reportees: Please Guide

Savvio,

Sounds like you are very lucky to have such an experienced team. But your question is an easy one to answer.

The responsibility of your people is to decide what to do, how to do it, and then do it. Your responsibility as their boss is to support them so that they can do their very best at meeting their responsibilities.

Support consists of training, tools, parts, material, discipline, direction, information, planning, and the like. The only way you can determine if they need something they don't have is to ask them and then do your best to give it to them. They may need better tools. They may have a slacker among them who is not doing her share of the work so you must work to improve that person's performance with discipline being one of the methods but only after discussing the problem with the person. They may want information and your job is to get it for them no matter what it is so long as it is not personal.

If you want to learn more about being the leader of a group, take a look at the articles and videos at my website. The answers you need are there.

Best regards, Ben Simonton

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