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.
Process & Stages of Creativity
Creative ideas do not come just like that. There is a process to it. There are a number of techniques of creativity to support the generation of ideas but the widely practiced ones are brainstorming and lateral thinking. Most innovations are not so much the product of sudden insights as they are the result of a conscious process that often goes through multiple stages. The creative process can be divided into four stages of preparation, incubation, evaluation, and implementation.
Recognizing Stress & its Sources
As an individual, you almost certainly know what stress feels like. Stressors are events or situations to which people must adjust. Stressors may be physical or psychological in nature. The level of severity of stress is determined not merely by exposure but the intensity, duration, and frequency of stressors. The sources of stress are many. They arise from multiple areas both with the individual and from the environment.
The Five Bases of Power
In this study of power, Raven identified five bases of power as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert. The 5 Types of Power can help you decide when it is appropriate to use a particular type of power in important situations. Leadership involves authority and it is very important for leaders to understand what type of power they're using.
The Skill of Decision Making
In its simplest sense, decision-making is the act of choosing between two or more courses of action. Decision making is a key skill in the workplace and is particularly important if you want to be an effective leader. When decisions have to be made, there are several stages that you should go through to reach a practical solution. Understand the meaning and importance of decision making and how to look at it as a process.
What is Communication?
Have you ever noticed how we express ourselves or interact with each other? Have you ever wondered what communication is and what role it plays in our lives? One may wonder if communication is so omnipresent and integral to our lives, why study communication at all? We need to study communication because it is a complex process that consists of many elements and is also beset with a number of barriers and there is a need to remove the barriers so that the communication process is effective.
