Be an Inspiring Team Lead: The Best Tips for Leading Your Team with Success from Kick-off to Deliverables (Leadership & Project Management)

How do I make my team stronger? What should I focus on? Where do I start?New project leaders ask these questions when they start their first team. Guerric de Ternay clearly lays out the plan and walks with us from casting the vision to teammates to end-of-project debriefings. He not only explains the importance of communicating through 1:1 meetings and team meetings. He then steps us through the “how-to” process many authors avoid. Clearly and succinctly, he explains that meeting with team members should go beyond business performance to learn the person behind the position. These encounters must emphasize the skills, accomplishments, and progress the teammate has made, not just recounting their shortcomings. He even gave us a sample schedule we could follow for these interactions. I appreciate the distinction he makes between giving role-based and task-based feedback and explains the importance and timing of each.He makes most decisions using his seven traits of a healthy team culture—significance, adventure, safety, clarity, communication, ownership, and support.Customers can significantly affect team morale, so he uses several pages advising us on customer management. We must clearly define the project for the customer and set realistic expectations. Even if we have, sometimes there will be unmet expectations, and he walks us through deciding which customer relationships are worth salvaging and which are not. Sometimes, the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement is to dissociate from the customer.At the end of each chapter, he encourages us to consider how we can apply this information to our situation. I’m anxious to return to work and discuss these with my team.

A practical book that cuts through the fluff often found in leadership books - quick to read and packed with actionable advice that I implement with my team. I am looking forward to seeing the results unfold and highly recommend this book for project managers and team leaders.

I borrowed this book thanks to my Kindle Unlimited subscription and read it on my tablet using the Kindle app.I work for a large engineering company with numerous big and small projects. With my growing experience, I expect to eventually lead one of these projects and guide a team to success. In preparation for that, I found this book incredibly useful. It offers a very structured approach, from the start of a project and team formation to dealing with different types of people and achieving the final goal, including the project wrap-up. It covers everything a team leader needs to consider in order to be the great leader expected.The more you highlight in a book, the more valuable the insights and messages become, and this book is full of practical advice worth saving.In summary, it's a quick, easy-to-read, super interesting, and well-structured book.

Oh wow, this was a very good read. I’ve gone through a few leadership books and The Inspiring Team Lead has stood out from the rest. While the other books provide more ’classic’ advice and examples on leadership, this book brought more real-world examples. Far from the charismatic president style of leadership, this book is hands-on and gives you good advice on how to lead a project team (think of markers on select pages you want to return to after having read the book). I liked the author's seven characteristics of teamwork and how he brought all of them to life with examples that I found helpful to further understand, and to remember after reading, each characteristic.

When I picked up Guerric The Ternay’s “The Inspiring Team Lead,” I was looking for a guide that could speak to my experiences as a team leader. This book delivered just that. It’s a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to leading a team from the ground up, and Guerric’s expertise as a consultant and entrepreneur is evident on every page.The book is a manageable 214 pages and doesn’t waste words. Each chapter is focused and to the point, making it easy to find actionable advice that I could apply immediately. The reflection sections are a nice touch, giving me a moment to pause and think about how I can adapt Guerric’s advice to my team’s specific needs.What I appreciate most is that this book feels like it was written for someone like me—someone who’s in the trenches, dealing with the day-to-day challenges of team management. It’s personal in a way that many business books aren’t, and that makes it all the more valuable.For students preparing to embark on their careers, “The Inspiring Team Lead” provides a solid foundation in understanding the intricacies of managing teams effectively. Meanwhile, experienced professionals benefit significantly from its refreshing perspectives and timely reminders on nurturing collaborative environments conducive to productivity and innovation.It’s filled with insights on team management, leadership, and project management that are straightforward and, most importantly, practical.This book is a go-to resource for me, and I’m sure it will be just as useful for any team leader looking to improve their skills and guide their team to success.

When you get a book about leadership or other business topics, you rarely know what you'll get. These days, many books repeat the same thing over and over. This is definitely not the case with The Inspiring Team Lead.This book stands out with its practical approach and the author's concrete way of addressing project management and team dynamics. The structure of the book is interesting in itself. The author anchors his advice in the rhythm of a project making it easy, I find, to picture when to do some of the suggested advice. I know it's the kind of book that I will read a few times or refer to when I have a specific challenge because there's a lot to unpack in just one read.

So many books on managing teams focus on a theory and major on team set up, they talk about team leadership as though it were a one-off event that you do at the beginning then foget about. By contrast, this is a practical guide to managing and inspiring real teams in the real world on a day to day and week to week basis. It's like a manual of keeping your team inspired and performing at its best - full of practical, simple tools and tips. It's also an easy and enjoyable read. Thoroughly recommend.