Teams exist for a specific purpose in companies with the right mix of attention, trust, and commitment and shared leadership. Challenges will arise if the team members are not pulling together towards the same aims and objectives. Communication and information will go a long way to the successfulness of any team performance. 1-3 Teams are no different from individuals, with the exception that usually more people are involved within a team set-up. Teams need to have clear direction, and without clear direction or clarity about where it’s heading will flounder in the struggle to achieve real and possibly any real results.
To be a leader, you must be able to communicate, leader, plan and organize, train employee and make decisions. Communication is the key to any success. Supervisor must be able to communicate effectively with their team (Supervisor Standards, 2007). The must communicate changes that may arise throughout an organization, how to improve their teams job skills, changes that are made within the company, address and resolve issues that employees may be experiencing with other employees (Supervisor Standards, 2007). To be a leader means you communicate with your team about everything that concerns the team.
M2 – Assess the importance of employability, and personal skills in the recruitment and retention of staff in a selected organisation (Strodes) At Strodes, it is important to have good employability and personal skills in order to be recruited as staff. The first skill you need would be suitable qualifications. This is important because if you don’t have the right qualifications for the role you are applying for then you aren’t going to be able to carry out the job efficiently. This skill would be more important for recruitment than it would be for retention because it is more important to hire someone who has the right qualifications than to keep someone like that, and also because when you are choosing who to keep out of a group of staff who are already hired, they are all going to have good qualifications or you wouldn’t have hired them in the first place. Having experience in a similar role is also more important when recruiting rather than when retaining because once you have employed staff they will become experienced in that role, whereas when you are recruiting it is a new start which could be more difficult to settle in and do the job efficiently.
You place yourself on the line when you tell people what they need to hear rather than what they “need” to hear.) This brings to mind how people on our department respond to management’s actions. Delivering a message to people whose minds are not primed for it is a source of much unnecessary conflict. As a leader, one must constantly consider how to communicate with the others on the team if overall & long term success is to be achieved. There will be many times, however, when the situation does not afford leadership an ideal time, place, or recipient for the message.
“Thinking about Leadership” by Thomas Cronin According to Thomas Cronin, there is a big difference between being a manager and a leader, “managers do things the right way, while leaders are more concerned with doing the right thing” (27). Throughout his article he provides numerous characteristics to define a leader along with many examples of past time leaders also examples of how a true leader would handle certain situations. A leader knows who they are; they select and solve priority problems, have a sense of humor, are skilled mediators, show signs of integrity and possess brains and breadth. Becoming or being a continuous leader is not an easy task, it really takes a special type of person. In summation, Thomas Cronin wanted the reader to understand that anyone can be a leader; leadership is not restricted to just the government.
Leadership Every organization has to have leaders and managers for the organization to be successful. Leaders and managers are not always the same person. An organization can have a manager that is a leader and vice and versa but normally they are not the same person. It is very important to recognize the need of managers and leaders in every health care organization. No matter the type of organizational setting, leaders and managers are needed to maintain the organization moving in the correct direction.
These issues cause many rifts in a successful society and workplace and often prevent goals of the organization and the teams within from accomplishing their goals and achieving their missions. Most importantly, leaders must be aware of these challenges in order to rise above them and lead successful teams, while also reaping the many benefits that diversity provides. References Author Unknown. Mind Tools. 1996 – 2013.
A person can be highly motivated but not possess the skills needed to do the job, or the workplace may not be conducive to doing the job. There are four approaches for motivating employees, meeting basic human needs, and creating a job that inspires motivation, encouraging them that they can do it, and treating people fairly. The motivational aspects of goal setting puts the focus on the individual and getting the proper focus that encourages completing the task. Goal setting has five conditions to be effective, the person must have the knowledge and ability to achieve the goal, there has to be a commitment to achieve the goal, progress check with feedback so to make adjustments as needed, sub-goals if they are complex, and the resources to attain the goals (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). Some limitations of goal setting, the first is if the employees lacks the skills and abilities needed to reach the goal it will not work.
Some of them are: the importance of honesty and integrity in leadership; the need of effective communication inside the organization; the necessity to understand the team's business or mission; and, the requirement to adapt to changing situational factors. Another topic that has received considerable attention inleadership and management discussions is motivation. The main reason of such popularity is a close connection between leadership and motivation. Motivation is a key component of leadership. It is unlikely that managers or supervisors can be successful without being able to motivate followers.
Knowledge shapes a leader’s identity and is reinforced by a leader’s actions. While character and knowledge are necessary, by themselves they are not enough. Leaders cannot be effective until they apply what they know. What leaders DO, or leader actions, is directly related to the influence they have on others and what is done. As with knowledge, leaders will learn more about leadership as they serve in different positions (2006).