What is a Production Team Leader?

By team leaders we mean point guards, right? Well, not exactly. We're talking about team leaders in the work place. These leaders are there to support the staff, while also making sure they're staying on task and reaching goals.

While team leaders can seem like your personal cheerleader sometimes, a team leader's ultimate goal is to make sure deadlines are met and the team's performance is running smoothly. As a team leader, you only get 7-8 hours each day to motivate your team, so you better perfect your cheers!

In order to become a team leader, most employers prefer applicants who have previous work experience as a leader. The good news is you won't need more than a high school degree, in most cases. So, go team go!

A Leader supports the manager of a team. He/She or she communicates the goals of the operation, delegates tasks, and sets deadlines. A team leader evaluates the performance of the group and encourages employees in moments of hardship. Seeing to the safety and quality working conditions of the employees is the responsibility of the team leader as well.

He or she will be involved in the hiring and training process of new colleagues and will create reports for the company management about the progress of the team. Team leaders are the ones who communicate company policies to their team and mediates the team's eventual issues toward the decision-makers in the company.

Team leaders call together meetings with the team members on a regular basis to maintain morale and discuss potential problems, share best practices, give an update on expectations, and further motivate the team for continuous performance.

Production managers spend the majority of their time ensuring everything is running smoothly and efficiently. They come up with different processes, policies, and procedures in order to increase production and improve efficiency.

Aside from being a great leader, production managers are crazy-good at planning. Since they have to hit deadlines, they have everything planned down to the second. That's why efficiency is the name of their game. They want to ensure goals and deadlines are not only met, but also completed.

While they're consistently focused on meeting deadlines, production managers care a great deal about safety. A safe work environment equals a safe and happy team. That's why production managers place a huge emphasis on complying with safety policies and regulations. A safety rule a day keeps the work incidents at bay.