As a leader, you can inspire individuals, help them grow, achieve results in their professional careers, etc…

However, usually without a team, you cannot achieve extraordinary results. Our clients’ problems need different people with different competencies, experiences, perspectives, and so on to solve them. However, having those competencies is usually not enough because of the human factor. Somewhere in between are interactions, conversations, engagement, commitment… It’s not only about gathering a group of people who are working for the same client but it’s about people who work together with a passion and the same common team mission.

A leader’s role here is to help groups/individuals become teams.

Summary - what do we expect from a leader?

• Build a competent and non-dysfunctional team around the goal/change you want to achieve
• Be conscious of your team's struggles, challenges, missing competences, problems, needs, etc …

Getting there

Building a team is an extremely huge topic, with thousands of books written about it. But we don’t want to leave you alone with that. Here, we suggest some topics that you may consider for the beginning.

• Discover who you need in the team, and what competencies are missing. You may start from some models like 3H https://slidemodel.com/hustler-hacker-hipster-startups-3h/ or product trio https://www.producttalk.org/2021/05/product-trio/ and later on you may go deeper into each competence like some specific technology…
• Build relationships in the team, build trust, and space for honest and open feedback. Discover who is in the team, get to know each other, and let the team members know better each other too. Without trust and honesty, all you do as a team is missing a key factor - conviction in what you do for all team members. Some examples of what you could try to do:
• Discover as a team what drives you, what you want to do, what each team member wants to do, and how you can connect that all together. Talk about the missions, both your team and AppUnite’s. Find out how you can contribute to it, what is that thing that you want to do together as a group. You can change your mission later on, it’s not something that has to be set in stone.
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How a leader could be evaluated in that aspect?

Leader Perspective