Leadership and teamwork

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Leadership and teamwork
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Why Teams?

• Teams are people with common objectives acting
  together to strive the accomplishment of specific
  goals.
• When several people use their skills and
  knowledge together, the result should be a better
  project.
• People working together can sustain the
  enthusiasm and lend support needed to complete
  the project.

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Team Cohesion

• Cohesion is the force by which the molecules of a
  substance are held together.

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Seven Key Elements - Cone of Cohesion
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Goals and Objectives

• Clarify the team dreams into team goals
• Define the mission and vision statement
• Obtain commitment of the team members to achieve
  the goals and objectives
• Ensure task connects to needs and meaningful
  outcomes (perceived value)

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Communications

• Team meetings (frequent and consistent)
• Provide feedback on
• performance
• Use of we and our versus I and me

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Game Plan

• Defines how the project will be managed and
  executed
• Provides the team with a plan for achieving the
  established goals and
• objectives
• Establishes continuity/
• consistency in practices

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Training

• Encourage employees
• to not just be participants,
• but also be instructors

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Rewards

• Challenging project
• Gaining new experience
• Awards/trophies
• Celebrate the victories
• Team events/outings
• Dinner
• Gifts

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Leadership

• Lead by example
• Set the initial team goals
• Accept individual differences in team members
• Praise team cooperation regardless of outcome

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Leadership

• Leadership is about influence However the
  important distinction is, whether it is an
  intention or ability to influence? A good leader
  does not intend to influence the group with own
  ideas but to make sure that the group achieves
  the goals

Akio Morita, founder of Sony Don't be afraid to
make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the
same mistake twice
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Shared Leadership

• Be an active listener, even if you have your own
  thoughts and directions in mind be ready to
  reconsider them.
• If there is no emotional connection, people are
  not following you.
• This is a major difference between managers and
  leaders. Leaders have an emotional connection it
  is heart to heart, person to person. While
  managers have a mental connection it is mind to
  mind, position to position.

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What is Entrepreneurship?

• Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of
  vision, change, and creation. It requires an
  application of energy and passion towards the
  creation and implementation of new ideas and
  creative solutions.

Organisations are no longer built on force but
on trust
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Who is Entrepreneur?

• Entrepreneurs Goals is to
• to create or capitalize on new economic
  opportunities through innovation
• By finding new solutions to existing problems
• Or by connecting existing solutions to unmet
  needs or new opportunities

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What does a youngster today need to be an
Entrepreneur?
Enjoys big Challenges!
Innovator
Creative!
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Lets reflect a bit...

• "Don't ask what the world needs.Rather ask
• What makes you come alive?Then go and do
  it!Because what the world needs is people
  who have come alive" Howard
  Thurman

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Lets reflect a bit...

• Is leadership a possible solution? Why?
• Am I the kind of person who can change this
  world?
• How do I see myself making a change in the
  world?
• Which are my passions as individual?

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Lets reflect a bit...

• What do I want to do with my life and how can I
  drive change by doing so?
• How do I see Business Ideas enabling me to make a
  change in the world?
• How am I capitalizing on the opportunities that
  Business ideas is offering me to do so in the
  future?
• Where this change should start? What am I doing
  about it?