The document provides tips for gaining acceptance in a team as a leader. It recommends being honest and transparent, keeping job skills and knowledge updated, demonstrating tasks instead of just giving instructions, respecting team members, being supportive, taking initiative to develop team members, keeping promises made, avoiding irritating team members, ensuring fair judgement, and sacrificing for others rather than being selfish. Following these tips can help a leader attract people, lead effectively, and get the best from their team.

1. Tips to Gain Your
Acceptance in the Team
By Debojite Chandra Bhowmick

2. Tips to gain your acceptance in team-
First job of a leader is to gain his acceptance in the team; it is like a magical
power which will assist you to attract your people, lead them and get their
best. If you are well accepted by your team members they will be willing to
follow your command. But if you are not accepted by them your leadership
will be questionable. They will not follow you and they will be reluctant to
execute your order. So don’t forget to concentrate to increase your
acceptance in the team at the very first.

3. Keep yourself Honest and Transparent
You have to be very careful as nobody can raise any question
regarding your honesty and transparency. Exercise honesty in every
aspect and keep everything transparent to your team. Being honest
is important, it is equally important how people are thinking about
you especially when you are leading a team. It is unfortunate when
honesty become questionable because of poor communication. So
be careful because nobody like a corrupt person, even a corrupted
person doesn’t like to see others corrupted.

4. Update Your Job Knowledge and skills
You should have thorough knowledge regarding technical aspect of
your job. When your team members face any difficulties and ask
you for your assistance, they expect you should answer properly. If
you can’t satisfy them it is embarrassing for both of you. So you
have to keep yourself updated regarding technical aspect of your
job and different management skills.

5. Demonstrate instead of Giving Instructions
Employees don’t like those leaders who give instructions one after
another but don’t actively participate, like those who demonstrate
how to do the work. In some crucial moment when employees fail to
do their job despite giving their best effort or they are about to
miss deadlines, if you join hands with them and help them to
complete their job, they will be ever grateful to you.

6. Respect Your Team Members
Treat your team members with respect because everybody like to
be treated with respect. Besides, you can’t expect respect from
your team members without respecting them. Ask for their
suggestions in different issues, they will feel honored. Listen their
concerns with genuine interest and accept their suggestions if
possible. If they make any mistake don’t criticize them in public.
These will help you to increase your acceptance in the team.

7. Be Supportive in the team
It is our responsibility to help our team members. Help them when
they are facing difficulties while doing their job or struggling to
avoid personal difficulties. Help your team members as they can do
their job precisely. Support them in the moment of their crisis.
Make them understand that you are always ready to help them.
They will feel secured to work with you. Remember a friend of need
is a real friend. They will be ever grateful to you.

8. Take Initiative for Development of your
team members
Create a learning environment within your team and take initiative
for development of your team members. Improve their knowledge
and skill level, it will help them to build their confidence and to do
their job more precisely. Change their attitude and thinking by
regular coaching and counselling. People respect their mentor in
every culture in the world and it is best way to gain your
acceptance in the team.

9. Keep Your Promise
If you promise to do something for your team members don’t forget
to keep it. It will help you to gain trust in the team. Never give such
assurance which you can’t meet. Before giving any commitment
think twice but if you are committed; you must keep it. If you fail
to keep your promise for any reason, explain it and regrets for that.
Otherwise you will lose your respect and acceptance in the team.

10. Don’t irritate Your Team Members
People don’t like those leaders who always irritate their team
members, use harsh words while taking and behave roughly. Be
courteous communicating your message to your team members. If
they make any mistake don’t be excited, explain the matter to
them with politeness as they can realize their fault and help them
as they don’t do the same mistake twice. If you insult them, I am
sure they will find the right way to teach you.

11. Ensure Judgment in the Team
Treat everyone in the team with justice regardless of their
background, gender and religious identity. Treat everyone based on
their performance and let them understand that performance is the
only criteria for their evaluation. Favoring one person means you
are disfavoring others. If you have a special affection for any
member of your team and you do special favor for him/her, you will
lose your acceptance in the team.

12. Sacrifice for the People around You
Life is not always pleasuring ourselves; sometimes we do things for
others. It gives us a sense of satisfaction. But some leaders take the
advantage of their position and deprive employees. Sometimes they
try to be highlighted with the achievement of their team members
instead of giving due credit to them. When a leader becomes selfish
in the eye of his team members, he lose his acceptance and he lose
everything.

13. Thank You Very Much