Leading the Way. What I’ve Learned from Managing a Team.
<p>Late last year, I took what was probably the boldest decisions in the last eight years of my professional career. I decided to change jobs. When you put it in black and white, it was an easy decision: better salary, better job level… But when it came to the people I led, it was the toughest decision I had ever made.</p>
<p>I had been working in this company for more than eight years, and by the time I decided to resign, I had under my view two teams with a total of 15 resources with at least three different backgrounds or sets of skills.</p>
<p>This wasn’t my first time managing a team, but it was the first time I got to have the responsibility of making decisions like when should we hire someone? what skills and levels should we hire? and who’s the best candidate to hire? Being responsible for this type of decisions helped me shape what I’d say was my A-team, and I was extremely proud of them! But choosing the right people is just the beginning, making this people a team that you can trust to do the right things, and that can trust you to make the right decisions is what takes time and a lot of effort.</p>
<p>If you let yourself, working with people makes you learn something new every day. You learn from them, their personalities, their dreams and their ways to do things the right way (even if that way is different than yours). You learn from you, and how you can handle different opinions or perspectives. You learn patience. You learn tolerance. You learn empathy. You learn humility. You learn to listen.</p>
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