Understanding Leadership: Leading and Motivating a Team Effectively

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2.0 Understand the Role of the leader and leadership styles and behaviors in supporting and developing the team and its members and providing a common sense of purpose 2.1 Importance of a Common Sense of Purpose An effective team requires a common sense of purpose in order to understand the needs and expectations of each individual within the team. These should be discussed and set as a team with the leader facilitating the open discussion and the points highlighted should then be tied into the vision and strategy of the organisation. From such discussion team members have a better awareness of what is important to each other and can then develop a team working strategy to facilitate these. The team will then understand that meeting their own personal needs through their effectiveness as a team will result in matching the organization goals and vision. An effective tool to set a common purpose within a team would be to develop a Psychological Contract. This is a “set of promises or expectations that are exchanged between the parties in an employment relationship. These parties include employers, managers, individual employees and their work colleagues.” (Paul Matthews). This informal agreement can create a strong relationship within a workplace team with positive impacts on motivation and performance both individually and collectively. ‘Michael Wellin’ states that a psychological contract will typically make reference to the efforts/results employees are expected to deliver, and also to the way the organisation will contribute to the psychological contract development. Importantly even these common components of the psychological contract are treated subtly but quite differently by different organisations. Such discussions could include a range of points such as the below being request from team member and leader: • Trust within the team • Learning

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