Category Unit 5

Ryan’s Question “In a small organization, how do you select team members for a specific project without minimizing the abilities of the rest of the staff?” (Morrow, 2018) Ryan, great question! In my experience, I have been the leader selecting… Continue Reading →

Chris’s Question: “Have you experienced being a follower on a team where a leader clearly struggled with one of the ten characteristics of servant leadership from Spears? How did that impact you and the team you were a part of?”… Continue Reading →

There are many characteristics that can be used effectively by a team leader in a project development context. Three characteristics that stand out in Spears (2010) are listening, awareness and conceptualization. Listening is an essential component of communication and effective… Continue Reading →

It is one thing to assemble a team, but it is another to maximize the effectiveness of that group. Two critical functions of team effectiveness are performance (task accomplishment) and development (team maintanance) (Northouse, 2018). Performance refers to the quality… Continue Reading →