Be challenged by your managers, when keeping a directive and authoritative style in assigning your projects.

By Sotirios C Ikonomou
By keeping a directive and authoritative style in assigning & managing your projects, you will always find yourself being challenged by your own managers, which is how you will accomplish your vision & plan.
Most of the time, if you are directive and somehow absolute, you will find your managers trying to look for an easy way to accomplish projects effortlessly. However, they are, then, more likely to end with unwanted and unsuccessful results. Possibly then you might find yourself adjusting your project repeatedly or even dropping it, hoping you will find the right people to accomplish it, or even blaming your managers.

You worked hard and invested many hours in planning all the logistics of your project, you have set milestones defining periods, you have assigned tasks to your managers to bring it to life and you have tried all possible ways to commit your team.  But it doesn't always work effectively. Why?


The answer is that by being an authoritative and directive leader, as soon as you start a new project, you will meet with resistance as well as less engagement and commitment from your team. You should involve them in every operational step in developing and building your project and it is more likely that your leadership will be successful.  

Consider your project being tailored to the operational competencies of your managers.This will allow your managers to consider and decide with you the best possible way to reach set goals, that now have become common goals both sides agree on. 

This will give them a sense of recognition and pride that will engage them and push for success. 

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