This is a wonderful article, embracing the true meaning of team. “Aristotle quote:
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." In other words, the near future will be all about innovation for sustainable value creation, led by teams.” (1)
The article talks about “how the world has become complex by the day, command and control is out and employee engagement is in”. Where there is no larger-than-life personality is allowed to steamroller over the rest of the company.” Mr. P
1. Here are my seven insights on teams:
Great teams are led by captains. Like many popular terms, the word leader has become so overused and commonplace that it has lost meaning. Anybody can call himself or herself a leader; anybody can follow the "do 's" and "don 'ts" in leadership manuals. But it takes a special type of leader—a captain—to create not just a loose affiliation of individuals but a true team that 's centered around shared values and focused on a common goal. Captains are quick to recognize the key capabilities of their team members, including strengths and weaknesses, and to build the plan around those capabilities.
2. Fierce individualism has no place in teams. Captains need to be sure that the "most valuable player (MVP) syndrome" is not allowed to define their teams and be on the alert for individuals who might be losing sight of the team that gave them an identity—the group with whom they worked to produce the fame for which they are now known. It is in these situations
Within any successful team, you will find leaders, it need not be the manager, and it doesn’t have to be the same person all the time, you only have to look at any successful sports team to see that there are numerous leaders and within the team each person knows the role they have to perform at any set moment and can change as the situation needs. This has been well explained in the Belbin Team Architecture.
Leadership- should reflect the team’s stage of development. Leaders should motivate, facilitate goal setting, educate and evaluate achievements.
I started out as a student-athlete in which I depicted great leadership skills and positive role model qualities such as diligence, enthusiasm, and passion for the sport. Hence, after my first year of college, I was named the team captain. I worked closely with the coaches, helped to resolve team conflicts, established the tone for practice, and modeled responsibility, decision-making, and a strong work ethic. I also promoted a positive attitude and team interactions, and encouraged and supported all of my teammates. Throughout my experience as team captain, I showed mental toughness by remaining confident and focus, and respond to individual and team mistakes in an appropriate manner.
The leader said: ‘I do not see myself as a boss, I see the team as my co-worker, we all joining the team together to go to the same goal. I think it is important
While understanding what a captain was supposed to do I realized that I was showing leadership and being a role model to my little brothers too. I show leadership to my little brothers by always completing my homework and doing well in school and influencing them to do the same. “I want to have lots of trophies like you” Alex, one of the twins, said to me before going to bed one night. Hearing him say those words to me made me realize that he looks up to me and that I am one of their role models, which I have to make right decisions for them to follow. Being their role model has helped me in my daily life to make right reasonable decisions; it makes me think second thought before I
A leader should not hold all the power of leadership to themselves, but give it away to the team, because that is the only way to empower them. A good leader always take the blame, but never takes the credit, he gives that to the team. A team should be working together to achieve the goal while being united, like a family.
In any organization, teams may serve many purposes. Having a team not only allows for the work to be divided, but it also allows for different points of view and a new ideas. With teams, also come many difficulties, but hopefully with the right leadership many of the problems can quickly be resolved. As a manager, my other priorities would be to improve the efficiency and satisfaction with both my staff and those we serve. Being in charge of a call center where the call volume has dramatically increased over the course of a year will require great management skills and good teamwork. Figuring out to properly use the money and develop the best strategy as to how
Leadership by the team leader, who has responsibility for the team, is critical for team
Effective teamwork is dependent on good leadership. In other words there certain characteristics such as the behaviours and qualities of the leader and the behaviours of team member or followers that contributes to the effectiveness of a team. Different leadership theories such as the Trait theory, Situational theory, Behavioural theory, Transformational and Transactional have been develop to describe the different styles of leadership and to identify what makes an effective leader. However, there are certain qualities and behaviours that a team leader must possess in order to create a high performance team. Consequently, the National Health Service (NHS) (2013) has produce a leadership framework which provides nine dimension of leadership behaviours which are essential for being an effective leader. Goleman et al (2002) suggest that effective leadership behaviours include “self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management and confronting the impossible”. In other words, a team leader has the awareness of his or her own strengths, weaknesses, emotions, beliefs and values and its influences his or her decision making as well as how he or she manages her emotions. In addition he or she has the awareness of the individual team member skills and abilities and therefore is able to delegate certain task to members who are capable as each member of the team has a unique
This paper shows the different leadership styles and how it can affect the team results. both the leaders try to motivate the team, one tries to motivate them extrinsically and the other one intrinsically. The paper says there is no right or wrong style of leadership, but a true leader motivates others to develop those leadership qualities in them and do better. This paper gives a description of the coaches and the team players who showed leadership qualities even in the most difficult situations because they knew that their team needs them. It also describes the contribution on these players in their victory. They forgot their difference and played as a team.There were no
In basketball, I select my team captain through specific criteria. Firstly, at the beginning of every season, I look for the natural leader of the pack. As a coach, the natural leader of the pack in my vocabulary is going to be that player who sets and upholds the standards of the team. Hence, this kind of leadership definitely shows me that the individual is going to have a huge impact on the teams’ success. Secondly, I select a player to be a captain through his provision of ideas, suggestions, sportsmanship, and use of providing constructive criticism to me as his coach. Thirdly, I choose a player to be a team captain through his monitoring of the team’s chemistry, as well as maintaining a voice in the locker room whenever I’m not around as his coach. All Together, I choose a captain who shows consistent reinforcement of the team’s standards, as well as show his dependence towards me for leadership, guidance, and support as they step up to the challenge.
Leadership is not a solo sport, although it might seem like it. In many instances, it is the people around the team that help the leader become better; something famous CEOs and entrepreneurs have understood well.
No team. No coach. No chance. That was what everyone had thought of us at the beginning of the season. We were the associations charity project that they had no reason to care for. We started off what would become the greatest season of our lives with eight girls. Soon after we merged with Moundsview who was in the same situation as us. From there on we traveled the state for both practices and games. Every night we were either just down the street on our home ice at Tartan or all the way in Shoreview or Blaine practicing in Mounds View's rink. Not only did we have to travel to and from for practice but we would travel the state for our games. We skated many late nights and still managed to be successful with both our family life and
Leadership is the biggest ingredient to success. Coaches and captains who could not effectively handle dissent and provide inspiration and focus saw their teams tumble to the bottom.
Becoming a leader is not stress-free; one must be considered seriously, however no one likes an individual who is imperious and overly vigorous. During my spell playing football in Nigeria, I was frequently designated as team “skipper”. A skipper is an old English vernacular for captain. The first time I was deemed skipper of a team, I decided that I would lead inaudibly due to the fact that I did not want to distraught my