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Each of Your team members is Unique — Unlock their unique superpowers! Here’s How.

Mary Fajimi
3 min readJul 17, 2024

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We’ve talked about how to be human yourself and show genuine care to your team members. We’ve discussed allowing for the humanity of all the individuals on your teams. Now, let’s cover how recognizing, understanding, celebrating, and empowering the uniqueness of each of your team members makes you a stronger team. And we’re doing it all through the powerful tool of the One-on-One!

What you learn in your One-on-Ones can really fuel the way you set your team up for success. Let’s dive in with:

  • Trust, and
  • Self Care for the Long Game

And this is where I will put in my one really direct plug for Harvard Business Review, because this is backed by science, but I promise you almost every organization’s performance review, job description, published role expectations will be counter to anything that follows in this section.
Love + Work by Marcus Buckingham also speaks to this problem directly. (Amazon affiliate links earn me commission. Thank you!)

Trust Yourself and Trust Your Team

When you get to know every individual on your team, this allows you as the leader to create a team based on strengths, the strengths of every member, as they are able to shine in their best areas and stand in each others’ gaps. The great news is, we’re all different! And capitalizing on forming a diverse team with varying racial, ethnic, and regional backgrounds; a generous span across ages; different educational journeys and levels of formal and informal education; and more, makes this work even better!

Image of quote block stating: “Creating a team based on the strengths of each member enables them to shine in their best areas and stand in each others’ gaps.”

Not only will you create a team of individuals who can stand in each others’ gaps, but they will also be well-equipped, empowered, and emboldened to lead.

You’ve done the leg work of partnering with them on tasks that fit their loves at work. So they can shine in the areas where they are happy and where they excel. They can set the example of what it looks like to be excellent in a particular area. They can teach, they can mentor.

Set Yourself Up to Play the Long Game

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Mary Fajimi
Mary Fajimi

Written by Mary Fajimi

Writer. Coach. Consultant. Speaker.

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