Leading your team is the most important part of your role
A key determinant of getting the best from your team is fully accepting that leading them is a core part of your job, and perhaps even the biggest part of it. This is something that I still see many team leaders struggling to do. There are at least three role identities that can get in the way of this. The first is holding on too closely to an area of technical or specialist expertise. For example, I frequently meet specialists promoted into team leadership roles who find t
