Makeda Andrews: 5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Manage a Team

Know your team — The role of a manager is essentially to help a group of people achieve outstanding outcomes. It’s impossible to do that with a group of people you do not know or understand. A successful coach is able to place their players in the right spots because he or she knows the strengths and weaknesses of each one. So the basis of being successful is knowing the players you are working with. It will help you to guide you and them. I found for myself that understanding my team members and what they enjoyed doing, what their career aspirations were allowed me to place them in positions where they could thrive and do their best work.

As a part of our series about the five things you need to successfully manage a large team, I had the pleasure of interviewing Makeda Andrews.

Makeda is a leadership and team-building coach who guides first-time managers to navigate the…