Unit 10: Lead and Manage a Team

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Unit 10: Lead and Manage a Team People often confuse the terms manager and leader; they are not the same thing although it is possible for a person to be both. A leader has a vision, a number of visions, or is creating visions – in this context a vision is an overarching idea or achievable dream. Leaders therefore work with people and their emotions, Leadership is about asking the questions, ‘what’ and ‘why’ and empowering people by giving them the responsibility to do things right Managers plan: planning is used to enable the manager to do the job well. Managers ask, ‘how’ and work mainly with processes, models and systems Good skills make a good manager - “A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both” Wikipedia 2013. Effective team working is about first of all setting clear aims and objectives to be achieved by staff members. This is communicated in the Staff Handbook and Code of Practice and during staff induction. Thus, employees are aware of company’s mission and performance expectations and competence required, set also in job role descriptions and person specifications. Performing effective induction, followed by mentoring, coaching or shadowing experienced and skilled staff is a powerful tool for new starters in order to shape them as effective team members. Moreover, during this process new employees build up quickly their knowledge about organisational and team culture, behavioural patterns, communication systems in place etc. Lead and manage a team within an Adult health and social care, Children or younger Adult setting in my organization focuses on the effectiveness of the team in general and the effectiveness of the team can constitute of five main components:  Task Effectiveness  Team Innovation and Motivation  The Relationship between the staff team
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