Team Leadership
Leadership Skills – Team Management
Effective teams often require the right mix of people, skills, resources and a focus on building good working relationships. How to be effective team players and team leaders, solve problems and work towards common goals?
Most of the organizations today we work for are matrix based organizations where the relevance of team based approaches has gained even more importance. The biggest challenge that leaders face while working with such structures is, how do they as team leaders ensure the empowerment of employees and start sharing their leadership responsibilities with the team members to maximize creativity and productivity. Team Leadership focuses on building the skills necessary to launch, develop and maintain effective and dynamic teams.
This section from TechnoFunc help you develop a new set of skills, and make use of these new tools and techniques at your workplace. These will help you with the key management activities of organizing, motivating, developing and communicating with your team. The target audience for the course is any individual who is a member, or leader, of any team, whether project, temporary, virtual or intact work team. These range from choosing the right people and deciding who does what, to communicating with, developing and motivating people.
Storming Stage of Team Development
Storming is the second stage of team development and this stage is characterized by a bid for power and inter-personal conflicts. Learn the key factors that occur in the storming stage and the strategies that a team leader can adopt to pass this stage of high winds
Tools for Developing Your Team
If a manager has too many weak spots in the talent of the team, the ability to empower the team members to independently execute the project is impaired. Assignments fall behind schedule or stretch out because the needed skills or knowledge are not in place when needed. To successfully execute important projects, hiring talented people, and increasing the talents of existing staff are most important.
Share Information with Your Team
Willingness to share information is the most critical and the very first step in the Journey to employee empowerment and team development. People cannot make good technology or business decisions without information. They need to understand the purpose behind what they are doing and connect with the big picture. People with information feel the need to take the risk of making decisions that enable business growth.
Team Development by Building Trust
As your team begins to work together, you need to establish a way each team member can exchange ideas and build mutual trust. Successful groups are built on trust and collaboration. A free exchange of ideas, in an open environment, will allow your team to get to know each other and enable you to check on how they work together. Learn some tips to help build team trust and establish personal bonds.
Benefits of Empowerment
Teams are certainly very relevant and important elements in today’s high-performance organization but the important thing to remember as a leader is that we can’t simply rely on putting highly effective individuals together to make a highly effective team. Empowerment increases the effectiveness of the team and drives many intangible benefits both for the organization and the employees.
