D. Leading

You greet everybody and propose to discuss the problem of successful teams: You think that successful teams have several things in common - whether they are sports teams, business teams, military teams or whatever. You think that there are 8 characteristics of teambuilding which will help you to analyze the "health" of your own team:

1) a mission or charter;

2) common objective;

3) interdependence of members;

4) an effective relationship to the environment;

5) an identifiable decision-making system;

6) well-motivated members;

7) an effective leader;

8) well-organized, effective meetings.

– You suggest discussing some of them. Mr Frost considers the problem of common objectives to be the most important one. He thinks that common objectives should be necessary, realistic, agreed. For that the team should plan results, deadline, limits and action steps.

– Mr Brown considers the problem of interdependence of members to be the most important one. It includes clear rules and roles, encouragement of individual differences and good management of tension. He offers a small diagram to illustrate good management of tension in every team.

amount of tension

– Mr Lincoln speaks about an identifiable decision-making system. He thinks that depending on the situation decisions will be taken by:

- consensus (most efficient but time-consuming);

- information exchange - majority decides;

- information exchange - leader decides;

- leader makes unilateral decision.

– Mr Fox considers that the most important factors are well-motivated members and an effective leader. As for well-motivated members it is necessary to provide good salary, working conditions, tools. Individual needs should be identified and satisfied and management style should fit needs and expectations. In addition to it an effective leader is a part of the successful team building. The effective leader should be good planner, organizer, controller, leader and achiever. But that's not all. He should be good communicator (questioner, listener, presenter). He should be assertive. It is also necessary to agree objective with team members and to monitor performance.

– You are satisfied with the discussion and thank everybody.

You are discussing the problem of leadership. Is there such a thing as an ideal leader? You ask managers to describe the best leader they have ever known. They describe the best leader giving the following characteristics:

a) fair; b) intelligent; c) competent;

courageous; fair; communicative;

intelligent; friendly; decisive;

generous; dynamic; firm;

competent. decisive. hardworking.

– You add that though you can't change your personality, as a team leader you have to change your management style according to the situation. Some aspects which differentiate situations are: urgency, emotions, skill mix, environment.

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