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.
Directive Leadership Style
This style is characterized by leaders making decisions for others and expecting followers to follow instructions. The directive leader is adept at giving instructions, setting expectations, and establishing timelines and performance standards. However, it is possible for the same leaders to display both directive and supportive behavior as per the demands of the situation.
Effective Business Communication
Communication is all about getting the message across correctly. To make this happen, you need to have good speaking skills and good writing skills. If you have these skills coupled with good listening skills and interest in reading, you have all the potential to be a good communicator. What things should the leader take into consideration to be more effective with interpersonal communication?
Facilitative Leadership
Facilitative Leadership is all about involving the employees in the decision-making process at all levels enhancing their sense of ownership, responsibility, and motivation. Facilitative leadership style uses a number of indirect communication patterns to help the group reach consensus and build commitment for the decision taken. To be effective in modern organizations, managers need to become facilitative leaders, learn what it means to be a one.
Generating Ideas using Brainstorming
The brainstorming technique was developed by Alex F. Osborn in 1957 and brainstorming means where a team of members generates a large amount of alternative fruitful ideas on a specific problem without any criticism and then evaluates each idea in terms of their pros and cons. Brainstorming techniques fall into four broad categories: visioning, exploring, modifying, and experimenting.
Generating Ideas using SCAMPER
SCAMPER is an activity-based thinking process that can be performed by Cooperative learning. SCAMPER is an acronym that provides a structured way of assisting students to think out of the box and enhance their knowledge. This can be used in the organizational context as a technique for creative problem solving and as a toolkit to generate fresh ideas.
