Leadership Case

In an ideal situation, teamwork can combine the intelligence, experience, knowledge, skills and commitments of the team members into a more powerful drive. Depending on the task, technology involved the organization's structure and how the team is formed in regard to authority, communication, attitudes, behaviors and expectations of people involved, a team can be ineffective for both the individual employees and the organization.

Teamwork helps individuals develop personal responsibility. Even though the main focus is the team's goal, each person knows that he is accountable and is responsible to do his part or role. As a result every team member has accountability for the part of the task.

At the pace, one has to conquer a host of problems that can beset the team building process. Many a times at work, we confront with similar issues faced by people in the case study. I consider myself to be a leader (Anna), as even in the grave problems, I haven't experienced myself to be at a loss to know how to solve the issue. I have always considered communication to be necessity and addressing the team's issue and providing an honest feedback as a ladder to success unlike the direct report manager (Jelani) who considered communication to be a time-consuming and non-necessity. I make sure that my team mates receive honest feedback combined with positive coaching towards a definitive goal for the team's success.

As a team leader, I try that every team member is communicated with the long and short goals. More importantly they understand the path for fulfilment of the goals, the segments of the projects, the deadlines, the processes and the procedures involved to foster a sense of responsibility. Clarifying the goals and clearing all the doubts and regularly checking the understanding through team meetings is considered important.

To instill accountability, team roles are designed strategically to ensure each individual has a control of a particular element of the project. Delegation of work is also focused on each individual's strength. This confirms the team to collaborate interdependent processes, sharing accountability to motivate each individual to provide their best to keep the project efficient.

When explaining things, team member's questions are not considered obstructive and in fact answered promptly. I think this is also an effective way of eliciting whether or not people have truly grasped what is expected of them and a guide to their understanding. The effort and focus is surely to have a challenge to strive for, making sure that the goals are within the grasp of their abilities.

I believe in working in an environment where people feel free to express their thoughts and opinions and potential solutions to the problem. I believe if people feel they are heard out and listened to, they generally sense a feel of connection. Talking openly and regularly about performance

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