Managing Your Team

As a manager, your team is your biggest asset, but also your biggest responsibility, especially if have line management responsibilities. So, it's right, sensible, and necessary that you prioritize your thoughts and actions to manage the members of your team effectively and get the best performance from them. In this chapter, we will be focusing on the best ways for you to think about and manage your team.
We'll start by talking about how you can build and maintain a healthy team with good communication lines and clear boundaries. I'll then introduce three important lenses through which you should always be looking at your team – culture, tone, and diversity.
But if we take a step back and think beyond your development or project team, there are a lot more people you'll need to influence and proactively manage. You can think of them...