Presentation for Leadership and Organizational Behavior class taken at Keller Graduate School of Management.

1. Team Leadership
GM591 Term Paper Presentation
Randy Paul

2. Introduction
 EchoStar
 Compression Engineering
Department
 Unique Leadership Structure
 Undesirable Organizational Culture

3. Situation
 Crisis Management
 Leadership
− Administrative roles
− Unclear operational roles
 Culture
− Communications
− Empowerment
− Training
− Meetings

4. Sources and Causes
 No storming stage
− READY! FIRE! No AIM?
− Assumptions
− Clarifications
− READY! FIRE! No BANG?
 We are Engineers
− Innovation
− Decisions
− No team planning
− No team decisions

5. Possible Solutions
 Professional Evaluation
 Internal Evaluation

6. Recommendations
 Survey
 Training
− Leadership
− Interpersonal
− Planning
− Management by objectives
 Develop Objectives
 Set Priorities

7. Advantages
 Improved interpersonal skills
 Improved communications
 Clear objectives, roles, and
responsibilities
 Have a voice that gets heard
 Innovation, risks, and decision
making process
 Free up leaders to lead.

8. Drawbacks
 Management fails to support
 Resistance to change
 Leadership fails to apply skills

9. Conclusions
 This is a people problem
 This is a team problem

10. Questions?