I'm team leader on a project (IPRO) here at school. I've never been involved in one of these before, but for one of the responsibilities I have here on campus, I had to be a leader in the IPRO. So this ended up with me being the total team leader.
It's been super hard trying to grasp the scope of this project as well as do the work expected of me as a team member and to lead the group. I am learning a lot. But I think there should be other ways to learn this. I know that the team itself is suffering too because I don't know how to lead it.
I have lots of knowledge of what to do next semester, but very little idea how to help myself or my team this semester. I just hope that the project gets completed.
Saul Alinsky wisely observed that the difference between the leader and the organizer is that the leader wants to use the power of others to achieve the leader's own goals, while the organizer wants to assist other people to achieve their goals. If you have to motivate them, it is not their goal you are working towards; it is yours. Even if they once shared the goal, if you come at it with the idea that it is your job to motivate them and lead them, you have taken the goal away from them and made it yours alone That's probably why the team is suffering.