Team leadership has become a very dynamic element today’s\u2019 organizations. Organizations seize the opportunity to use this formula to put the best talents together from various background and culture \u2013 increase collaboration, increase productivity, and to reduce overhead expenses (Northouse, pg. 371). The organization also reaps from this process, better decision making, as the best talents are put together which increases better quality products and services.<\/p>\n
Effective leadership processes are critical to the development of the team success. And, so, the structure requires a shared or distributed style of leadership. Shared leadership, therefore, occurs when a member of the team takes on leadership behaviors to influence the team and to maximize on the potential of the individuals. (pg. 373).<\/p>\n
In Hills Theoretical model of a dispersed team, the outcome on both ends of the team virtual collaboration and the team member\u2019s collaboration is the need for performance. (Hill, N.S., Bartol, K.M. (2016, pg. 161-162). Northouse, suggested that at the bottom or end of Hills model is the teams\u2019 effectiveness. (Northouse, 2016, pg.375). This effectiveness has two critical functions. These two functions are, \u201cperformance (task accomplishment) and development (team maintenance), (pg. 375). This process is defined to look the team\u2019s health. While we examine the team health, Northouse (2019) cites (Larson & Lafasto, 1989) as they declared that no matter the team structure eight characteristics are consistent with a teams\u2019 excellence (pg. 376). He noted the eight characteristics as clear \u2013 evaluating goal, result-driven structure, competent team members, unified commitment, collaborative climate, standards of excellence, external support and recognition and finally principled leadership (pg.376).<\/p>\n
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While serving as a lead I had the opportunity to discuss with my manager about moving our team members to the next level. This was needed to ensure that we had competent staff, who would have been able to handle the work being assigned. As a result, we’ve sent staff on training and covered the expense. Today the team is trained and competent to carry on.<\/p>\n
Clear Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n The team members were provided with a clear goal as this was a way of evaluating each person along with the team. So, at the start of each appraisal period, we met with each member of the team to work through the work plan and to ensure the staff knew exactly what was required of them \u2013 this was a clearly defined\u00a0path while assessing\/evaluating the result at the end of the period. The work plan was overarching towards the department overall goals and objectives. While providing a transparent and evaluating process, this was also a way to ensure a standard of excellence was being reached \u2013 which also had rewards attached. It was said, \u201cthe process can be facilitated by the team leader, making expectations clear and reviewing results- providing feedback to resolve performance issues, and rewarding results by acknowledging superior performance\u201d (pg. 378). This process was facilitated through the organization as opposed to the lead.<\/p>\n Principled Leadership is defined as leading from a position of what one believes.<\/p>\n It is described as the central driver of team effectiveness (Northouse, pg379). There were four processes mentioned that influences a team\u2019s effectiveness – Cognitive, motivational, affective and coordination. (pg. 379)<\/p>\n Some time ago while working within a particular organization it was evident to me that they struggled with coordination. I was unclear of what was required of me \u2013 no goals, no performance strategies, assigned to the wrong accounts, lacked an avenue to provide feedback. Based on who I am and my Burkman assessment, I strive better in a setting where these things are clearly defined. If there are not defined, then I quickly become disconnected as I am unsure of my role and expectations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hill, N. S., & Bartol, K. M. (2016). Empowering Leadership and Effective Collaboration in Geographically Dispersed Teams. Personnel Psychology, 69(1), 159-198. doi:10.1111\/peps.12108<\/p>\n Northouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Team leadership has become a very dynamic element today’s\u2019 organizations. Organizations seize the opportunity to use this formula to put the best talents together from various background and culture \u2013 increase collaboration, increase productivity, and to reduce overhead expenses (Northouse, pg. 371). The organization also reaps from this process, better decision making, as the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":2558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,96,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-ldrs500","category-unit-5","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}