Team Leading Essay

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Provide a synopsis of your chosen work related issue that has had a fundamental impact on your leadership role and the ongoing development of your team’s performance. Critically analyse the leadership style employed in the work related issue. Consider different approaches to leadership and various power bases Examine the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the leadership style under scrutiny. Critically analyse the impact of the issue on the team dynamics and differing personalities within the team. Consider factors that promote and inhibit team working. Critically evaluate the performance management strategies employed to promote effective team working and on-going team development in relation to the issue. Finally discuss the learning that has taken place in relation to your potential as an effective leader/ manager of a team.The team I am part of got a new team leader, who was new and inexperienced, at the same time work load had doubled and the team was struggling to work together and felt abandoned with having a new team leader who they felt couldn’t handle the job.This caused the team to start to break down, miscommunications, added stress and mistakes were made…How it was Resolved:A senior manager staged a team building exercise/training, came as a neutral person and observed while the team and the team leader did a number of exercises.Including a; “what is working” and “What isn’t working” task on the board. What we didn’t like about the way the team was working and what we could do to change it and moved forward. Everyone got a chance to say how they felt and afterwards felt positive that we could work better with each other as a team.Result:The team worked with the new team leader as she settled in and became accustomed with the job. We continued fortnightly team meetings where positives and negatives were addressed straightaway so not to cause

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