Leadership? But what does it really mean to lead a team or a company?

It is to achieve that, as a team, the best possible result is produced, with great quality and reducing the best effort and waste of time and money.

When we work alone, we can be limited in what we can accomplish, and over time these limitations end up restraining our ability to grow a company.

These main limitations are:

1st Knowledge and Capacity - We only have two hands to work with and we are not experts in all the areas that are needed to grow our business project.

Having specialists in the most critical areas of the company, in the key areas that contribute to the results, brings an additional improvement that enriches the business and makes it more profitable in a short period of time.

2nd Time - Whatever we do, we only have 24 hours in each day! If we work alone, we end up limiting the growth of the business.

3º Scarcity of Points of View - In the business world diversity is always an asset.

Ensuring several different views, experiences and perspectives in the same team is very useful and enriching for the project. This is because we only see what we know, we only think about what makes sense to us.

Bringing other people into the team and really listening to them helps us broaden our vision of the market and the world, makes us think in a different way than usual, and gives us the possibility to see what we may never have seen before. The multiplicity of views and opinions broadens our knowledge, widens our possibilities, and increases our alternatives for choice.

So, when we think about managing a team, we find it easier to overcome these limitations with each person we include in the project. However, for the group to really work and for us to get the maximum results out of it, we have to be able to lead the employees on the path to success. Knowing how to get the most value out of each one, keeping all staff aligned with the common goals and involved in the pursuit of what is the vision and mission of the company.

"Leading is a difficult competence to master, but it can be learned, trained and perfected."

Leading is a mix between, on the one hand, managing employees with exigency to ensure that results appear as planned, and, on the other hand, inspiring and involving them on a daily basis in order to encourage and give them the freedom to do more and better, to be critical of internal processes, to care about delivering the expected results and not just fulfilling their tasks.

It is a difficult contrast to maintain. In practice, it is being both the good cop and the bad cop. It's being able to appreciate people for what they do well, but also to disapprove of their not so good behavior. It's to supply all the team's needs, but not to tolerate their whims.

One of the fundamental values to develop ourselves when it comes to leadership involves seeking information about other ways of acting different from ours, is to be available to test alternatives, to assume that we don't always have the best answer, that we don't own the right answer. Only then will we be able to analyze, decide and act with as much knowledge as possible.

"A leader does not have to shine but has to make his team shine.!

These leaders live their daily lives with their teams, truly serve them and don't feel the need to boast about the team's achievements and their importance in this success. They fully embody the value of Being to Serve.

They are people who know how to control their ego and who have no need to take credit for their individual work. What is important to them is that the work produced by the team leads to the results desired by the company.

They have the objectives clearly outlined, develop a detailed plan to get there, closely monitor their teams, support all their needs while assigning the responsibility to be autonomous, they measure results daily, give frequent feedback to ensure that the established objectives are met.