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What Makes An Effective Team?
- 2. 1. There is a clear unity of purpose. 2. The group has set clear and demanding performance goals 3. The atmosphere tends to be informal, comfortable, relaxed. 4. There is a lot of discussion in which virtually everyone participates. 5. Criticism is frequent, frank and relatively comfortable.
- 5. The four main leadership styles are: Autocratic Democratic Participative Laissez-faire
- 6. Charisma: Having a strong personality, usually one which captivates and motivates others. Authority: Legitimate power to do something usually based on position and experience.
- 7. Effective communication is defined as verbal speech or other methods of relaying information that get a point across.
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- Desire is the beginning of achievement. Everyone in the team should show that they’re so willing to do their best and raise the team up that it is an obsession or they’re willing to make it their obsession. The team needs to be brave enough to set goals that will require them to work at their maximum potential, therefore the output will never be substandard. A team can’t succeed if its members can’t get along. This would decrease motivation levels and as a result, productivity. Every team member should be made to comfortable enough to express their opinion and the rest of the team should be ready and willing to evaluate each opinion objectively. Team chemistry levels will always be high if any member can point out another’s lack of effort or effectiveness and the criticism is received with maturity.
- Forming is gathering the group who will do the job. Selection should always be based on merit because it is quite inefficient to keep coming back to this stage in team development. At this point thee is no clear sense of purpose. Storming is where everyone shares ideas and the group reaches a decision on their goal and some of the shorter term goals based on their abilities as individuals and their power as a team. There is no clear structure in the group and no plan of action that can be executed in the shortest possible time. Norming involves creating a system in which the leader in identified (or different leaders in different situations) so that everyone can become accustomed to playing their role. Everyone knows their everyday roles and is in the process of becoming comfortable with them and finding a way to be as effective as possible. After this long process, the group is now performing. Everyone has become focussed on being as efficient as possible and the output is large and of a very high quality. Ideas are constantly being expressed and there is a very high team chemistry.
- When recruiting personnel to be part off a team you’ll most likely find that everyone in the team has different strengths, different personalities and thinks in very different ways. This isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually a strength! Having different personality types ensures that a firm won’t focus more on certain types of tasks and neglect others. Mixing different personalities allows the firm to compensate for everyone’s weaknesses and fill in gaps in ability. It’s important to have people who will challenge each other’s ideas based on what kind of approach each person likes to take. This way, the firm is less likely to make a decision that fails to account for reactions by different stakeholders. Team morale is deeply affected by different types of people. It can be hard for team full of competitive people or a team full of loners to get along as progress would be very minimal and decision making is likely to be irrational, reducing potential productivity. The tedium that results from all this makes teams very disfunctional making every team member less motivated to work.
- Autocratic leaders are very stern and expect their employees to implement all their instructions to the letter. They have to plan themselves very well as the instructions have to be as clear as possible. Democratic leaders are open to hearing opinions from the other team members about a decision. When making the final decision they prefer to weigh the opinions before deciding which course of action is the best. Participative leaders, just like democratic leaders, will bring the rest of the team members into decision making but the final decision will be made based on the what the majority thinks. The decision is joint with every team members opinion having equal weight. Laissez-faire leaders leave all the decision making to their subordinates. They have to be very skilled in choosing their team and building it up well as they need to trust that the team will have the expertise and desire to make the best possible decision.
- Elon Musk draws people towards whatever new business venture he has and receives thousands of job applications everyday. This can be owed to his willingness to learn everything about an industry that is completely new to him in order to communicate efficiently with all the professionals in that area. He’s willing to have discussions about ideas even with people who don’t have any recognisable achievements as he often welcomes questions from his twitter followers and any young people around him when he attends events. Musk’s leadership style is mostly participative but he often uses laissez-faire from time to time since has oversee the running of more than five large companies. This is never a problem since the recruitment processes of all of his companies are always quite rigorous. Musk doesn’t restrict himself to more liberal approaches though. When it comes to setting targets and planning what he would like to have as an outcome, Musk often sets seemingly unrealistic targets for his employees that take months of research to even get started and he always wants all his guidelines followed to the letter. It’s how he sparks innovation from his team and creates new standards for how team operate and what they achieve.
- Barack Obama was able to move millions of people to change the dynamic of American politics and fed the people hope in a way that has never been done before. To do this he needed to present his agenda in a way that was easy for all the citizens to digest which made him a more appealing candidate. Judging from his own speech and behaviour, it is reasonable to assume that he switches between democratic and participative styles as he will always consult people who are more educated than him in certain areas though it is clear that some final decisions are made based on what he wanted to do.