Team leadership means providing guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group of individuals (the team) for the purpose of completing tasks successfully. The leadership component (highlighted) is what galvanizes other functions and helps to positively influence team members to want to follow. Hence when a team lead, supervisor, head of unit, or manager ‘work’ without the leadership component, people find it very difficult to follow them. And some of the consequences are loss of motivation to work, low productivity, mismanagement of […]
Category Archives: Team efficiency
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The leadership approach supervisors should avoid
“One size fits all” – using the same leadership style in every situation and for everyone in a team. This should be avoided because at any point in a team, individuals are at different developmental levels. Hence a supervisor should vary his or her style of leadership based on each individual’s developmental level. This approach, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, is known as situational leadership. It rests on two fundamental concepts; an individual’s developmental level and the supervisor’s […]
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The impact of leadership on employee engagement
In just about any industry and in just about any role, you will eventually find yourself in a leadership position, that is if you’re not a leader already. Hence it is important to understand what employee engagement means and how your leadership role affects it. Employee engagement is the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization, and put discretionary effort into their work. Employee engagement does not mean employee happiness. Someone might be […]
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When teams work in silos
At some level, every manager understands that to deliver great performance they have to unlock the potential in teams. And to do this, they need to turn a collection of individuals into a high-performing group, the members of which support one another. In other words, managers must be team builders nurturing teams where members share resources, ideas and common goals and also develop a shared identity, often built on a combination of their skill sets and their perceived status in […]
