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The document discusses the importance of leadership and team building. Effective leadership requires trust between leaders and employees, which is built through open communication about business strategy, how employees contribute, and company performance. Successful team building requires clear expectations, commitment from members, the right competencies and resources, and collaboration between members. It also requires an organizational culture that values teams, innovation, and rewards success.

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The document discusses the importance of leadership and team building. Effective leadership requires trust between leaders and employees, which is built through open communication about business strategy, how employees contribute, and company performance. Successful team building requires clear expectations, commitment from members, the right competencies and resources, and collaboration between members. It also requires an organizational culture that values teams, innovation, and rewards success.

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Leadership and Team building.

Leadership.
• Leadership is a process by which a person
influences others to accomplish an
objective and directs the organization in a
way that makes it more cohesive.
• The Two Most Important Keys to
Effective Leadership
• Trust and confidence in top leadership
was the single most reliable predictor of
employee satisfaction in an organization.
• Effective communication by leadership in
three critical areas was the key to winning
organizational trust and confidence:
 Helping employees understand the company's
overall business strategy.
 Helping employees understand how they
contribute to achieving key business
objectives.
 Sharing information with employees on both
how the company is doing and how an
employee's own division is doing - relative to
strategic business objectives.
• So in a nutshell –
• you must be trustworthy and you have
to be able to communicate a vision of
where the organization needs to go
Principles of leadership.
• Know yourself and seek self improvement Be
technically proficient.
• Seek responsibility and take responsibility for
your actions
• Make sound and timely decisions.
• Know your people and look out for their well-
being.
• Develop a sense of responsibility in your workers.
• Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and
accomplished.
• Train as a team.
• Use the full capabilities of your organization
Importance of team building.
• Successful team building, that creates
effective, focused work teams, requires
attention to each of the following.
Clear Expectations
• Has executive leadership clearly
communicated its expectations for the
team’s performance and expected
outcomes?
• Do team members understand why the
team was created?
Context
• Do team members understand why they
are participating on the team?.
• Do they understand how the strategy of
using teams will help the organization
attain its communicated business goals?
Commitment:
• Are members committed to accomplishing
the team mission and expected outcomes?
Competence
• Does the team feel that its members have
the knowledge, skill and capability to
address the issues for which the team was
formed?
• Does the team feel it has the resources,
strategies and support needed to
accomplish its mission?
Charter
• Has the team taken its assigned area of
responsibility and designed its own
mission, vision and strategies to
accomplish the mission.
Control
• Does the team have enough freedom and
empowerment to feel the ownership
necessary to accomplish its charter?
• At the same time, do team members
clearly understand their boundaries?
Collaboration
• Are team members working together
effectively interpersonally?
• Do all team members understand the
roles and responsibilities of team
members?
Communication
• Is there an established method for the
teams to give feedback and receive honest
performance feedback?
Creative Innovation
• : Is the organization really interested in
change? Does it value creative thinking,
unique solutions, and new ideas? Does it
reward people who take reasonable risks
to make improvements?
Consequences:
• Do team members feel responsible and
accountable for team achievements?
• Are rewards and recognition supplied
when teams are successful?
Coordination
• Are teams coordinated by a central
leadership team that assists the groups to
obtain what they need for success?
• Have priorities and resource allocation
been planned across departments?
Cultural Change:
• Does the organization recognize that the
team-based, collaborative, empowering,
enabling organizational culture of the
future is different than the traditional,
hierarchical organization it may currently
be?
Thank you

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