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Image Coach, Soft Skills Trainer - Answered on May 14, 2025

Archana Deshpande, the founder of TransformMe Life Skills Coaching, is an image consultant, soft skills trainer and life coach.
She has been working with individuals and corporate organisations for more than 10 years during which she has helped professionals and students improve their soft skills, build confidence and enhance self-esteem.
An engineer from the PDA College of Engineering, Gulbarga, Archana had a successful career at Reliance Communications. But she has always been interested in teaching and training people. So she pursued a postgraduate diploma in teacher’s training at Pune’s Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies followed by teaching assignments in schools at Visakhapatnam and Mumbai.
Archana also holds an international certificate in image consulting and soft skills training from the Image Consulting Business Institute, Mumbai.... more
Asked by Anonymous - May 07, 2025
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I recently led a project where I ended up doing most of the work myself because I was unsure if others would deliver on time. The project was successful, but I felt exhausted and know it's not sustainable. How can I develop more trust in my team while maintaining accountability?

Ans: Hi!!

A leader is one who leads, rt?
So your biggest role as a leader is to get the job done from others. Good that you have realized that the model where you do most of the work is not sustainable. So delegate work to individuals based on their capabilities, check in on them at regular intervals . Learn the art of the leadership model where you apply different strokes to different people and different times. Identify your own natural leadership style and adopt the right style of leadership based on the kind of team members you have and the task on hand.
Conduct workshops or get your personnel trained on what it means to be a trustworthy team member and how important it is to be accountable in the greater interest of the team. If need be you too enroll yourself in a leadership program. As a corporate trainer myself I can assure you that every skill can be learnt and developed.

Be an inspiring leader and then see how your team will measure up to standard you set for them. I always believe that the team is as good as the boss..... all the very best in leading your team !!
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Ans: Hi!!
First and foremost… congratulations you are the team lead now! The top management has seen the spark of a leader in you and chosen you to lead, it is now your turn to see yourself as a leader!

Don’t beat yourself up so much, you are new to this… it will take come time for you to learn the ropes of leadership! Ideally you should have been trained for role and then they should have given you the responsibility.

All your struggles of leading, delegating, giving feedback, managing conflict are learnable skills!
Developing leadership presence requires time and efforts. You need to master your Visual presence, your Vocal and Verbal communication and so much more!
I have tailor-made solutions to all that you want to learn under the umbrella of Leadership skills!
It can’t be taught by answering your question here in a few sentences!
Let’s help you be the leader you want to be!!
Learning leadership presence, develop emotional intelligence, mange conflict and your team effectively will require you to spend time and energy on learning these skills so that, you be that leader, who people will look up to!!
Leave a message on instagram @ lifeskillswitharchana and let’s see how we can help you!

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