Team Building and Leadership

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Team Building and Leadership

• Ashish

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What is a team?

• A team consists of small number of people who
  have complimentary skills with a commitment to a
  purpose and performance goals and are mutually
  accountable to each other.

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Small number of people
Activities 4/less 5-9 10-13 14
Skill Availability V LO OPT HI V HI
Cost of Coordination V LO OPT HI V HI
Conflict V LO LO HI V HI
We Feeling V HI OPT LO V LO
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Complimentary Skills and their outcomes

• Complimentary Skills
• Technical and functional Expertise
• Problem Solving and decision-making skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Their Outcomes
• Emergence of we feeling
• Less costly
• Mutual Respect
• Low conflict

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Commitment to a purpose

• The best teams invest a tremendous amount of
  time and effort exploring, shaping and agreeing
  on a purpose that belongs to them both
  collectively and individually

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Performance Goals

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Relevant
• Time-bound

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Mutual Accountability

• Promises we make to ourselves and to others
  result in..
• Commitment
• Trust
• Mutual Accountability cannot be coerced

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Characteristics of effective leadership

• Accurate self-assessment
• Conceptualization
• Concern with relationships
• Concern with impact
• Developing others
• Managing group processes
• Proactively
• Self-confidence
• Specialized knowledge
• Use of specialized power

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Phase -I

• Characteristic
• High Energy
• Feeling of Bonhomie
• Apprehension

• Leadership Role
• Focus on Mission
• Identify stakeholders
• Set goals
• Develop rules of the game

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Team Mission Checklist

• Supported by all members?
• A source of pride?
• Simple?
• Unique?
• Realistic?
• Guide in decision making?
• A clear description of purpose?
• A clear description of customers?

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Phase - II

• Characteristics
• Initial Bonhomie is lost
• Trying to prove
• Apprehensions surface

• Leadership Role
• Clarify the roles
• Encourage diverse opinions to surface
• Do not avoid conflicts
• Remind the goals

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Phase - III

• Characteristics
• Mounting tension
• Operational problems leading to deviation from
  mission
• Dangers..
• Group think

• Leadership Roles
• Involve all team members
• Identify the specifics
• Address accountability

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Identify Roadblocks

• Guarded communication
• A lack of disagreements
• Unwilling to share information
• Ineffective team meetings
• Unrealistic goals
• Little faith in others

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Phase - IV

• Characteristics
• Peer feedback is utilised
• High energy in team members
• High on mutual respect
• High on mutual support
• Extraordinary performance

• Roles
• Manage conflicts
• Emphasise on collaboration
• Focus on joint decision making

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Phase - V

• Characteristics
• Lack of performance
• Mutual distrust
• Shirking
• Mud slingling

• Leadership Roles
• Review
• Recast goals
• Rearrange roles
• revitalise

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A dynamic team

• Clearly states its mission and goals
• Identifies its stakeholders
• Focuses on results
• Encourages open communication
• Clarifies roles and responsibilities
• Builds upon individual strengths
• Resolves disagreements
• Encourages creativity
• Evaluates its own effectiveness

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Leaders in teams

• Need to be inspirational have a vision for the
  future
• Build trust, cohesion, and unity
• Facilitate decision making
• Expand the competencies of members
• Foster creativity and capitalize on the
  organization's diversity
• Manage change