Leadership Fragment

In our humble life, there's always times when the situation force us to make decision for a group of people, when the others just lied back and relax. They loves to follow other people decision and waited until somebody say "i wanna do this" or "i'm gonna do that". These kind of people are normal and there's a lot of them around us. Everyday, we can have fun with them, there's no problem at all but when it comes to solving a critical problem.. that's is when YOU have to take the lead when others refusing to take it.

However, mostly, in reality, a group of people will choose the most POPULAR person as the leader and that person will pass his responsibility to the B person that he HATE the most in that group. To make things worst, that B person will give his post to C person, which is anonymous guy in that group. That is one of the major reason why a group failed to show their true potential, because they do not posses a strong leadership!

To avoid this kind of situation from happening, You have to play your cards well, either you want to totally oppose the leader and take this chair or to be the mastermind behind a puppet show. Whichever the path you pick will put yourself into a lot of trouble but hang in there, there's no free lunch in this world.

OPPOSING THE LEADER

This is indeed a very risky way because there might be dissatisfaction between team members later on but with some good moves, it could save your team from breaking up.

When the leader is totally passive and unable to make make a resolve over a decision, not only once but twice or more.. This is the signal for you to take over his place because he will only get in the way for your team to walk along the path of achievement. You shouldn't take this action if the leader is active and loud because there's other way to handle them.

To steal the throne of the king, you need to cut down his henchmen first. Talk to your team one by one and tell them that you can do better than him, this is called "planting a seed". Trust me, planting a seed is important for you to get your team support later. After done with this phase, move to second phase which is to cut down the king and takeover his throne. Speak to him softly to pass his position to you in front other teammembers, there might be a little debate but not much of a fight because he is passive, which is one of the reason for you to act at the first place.

MANAGING A TEAM

When you get the throne, make sure your team is working as a TEAM! There are some people who loves to do things alone for various reason and there's others that unable to speak out their opinion at all although sometimes they have a great idea that might turn the opposite side winning! There's some people who love to talk all the time and knows no "." in their lines while some maybe too arrogant to listen to the team.

You have to tackle this situation nicely, after a careful planning the strategy for the team, give the "do things alone" guy a spesific job that only HE will do but make sure to check up on him regularly. For those who is "passive and quiet", ask them to speak out their thought and CONVINCE them that it's allright to be wrong so that they will gain a little boost in their morale. The talkative type could be easily be overpowered by politely cutting into his words politely and agreeing to what he said but with a proper addition from your opinion. When they start to shut up, you have to take control and never let them to take over the situation again.
The arrogant type is the most hard person to deal with. When they said they want it black, then they really want it black. The ebst way to deal with them is to listen and then discuss their opinion. Even if the team main strategy doesn't suit his plan, at least take something from him that WON'T hurt the team. By doing that, he will feel that the team listen to him and thus, giving his best for the team. Lastly, the most important thing in a team is for it to WORK as a TEAM.