João Miguel de Carvalho Pereira

Don't just delegate. You shouldn't be limited to your current team. Consider outsourcing your needs to not overload your team or to complete your team competences. Hire the best person for the job and put this cost into perspective investment wise. When delegating, teach other to delegate as well. Pay attention to people that, instead of delegating, just pass burden to others. You need a team and it should start with you and your leaders. At last, if the pressure is to much for you, find help or step out. Also look out for burnout simptoms. Your health and your team's health, either mental or social, should never be the price to pay.

Well the best way to incentivise responsibility in someone smart, independent of their maturity, is to make sure they understand two things: 1. The impact that what they are contributing to has or will have on others, on him or her, on society or on the future of mankind. 2. The level of power at their hands to either make it or break it. If this isn't enough, then, probably you are not grooming the right person.

Encourages your team members to share ideas, opinions, and feedback with each other and adopt those ideas and opinions whenever they are valid and good for the project and the team. Make sure to give credits to the contributor.

If possible, leave some room for goals defined by the team. This will give a sense of ownership that creates a strong bond. Same with decisions. If your are the only one that gets to make decisions it will be your project. If you bring your team to decide with you it will be the team's project. But, very importante, don't fake it. Some managers just play in a way to get the team to commit with a decision but it is just an hoax that the team will eventually identify. This will hurt more than being directive since it is a form of manipulation.

Look for opportunities. Even something initially perceived has a negativity can become an opportunity. Maybe you should change something about you. Maybe you should change your position or your job. Maybe you need to pay less attention to toxic people. Maybe you need to find inspiration and role models. Or maybe you just need to return the gesture and give your feedback.

Dissociate yourself from the feedback. See it as someone giving that feedback to someone you don't know. This will avoid emotional reactions and will allow you to find the purpose from an objective standpoint. Always consider the goodwill of the person giving the feedback no mater how difficult this proves, and try to find what are the positive intentions of that person. You won't get anything positive out of negativity, so learn to let go of any negative aspect of this interaction.