APPLICATION TO LEADERSHIP AND TEAM WORKING-INTRODUCTION

By Anonymous -



LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK SKILLS (OBJECTIVE FOR THE STUDENTS) --(TO)

  • APPLY  TEAM-BUILDING SKILLS
  • APPLY DECISION-MAKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS
  • APPLY TEAMWORK AND LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IN CREATING PLEASANT WORK ENVIRONMENT
  • DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY ON TEAM WORK
  • PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS



1.Apply Team-Building Skills

The Importance of Teams:

A team can accomplish more than an individual
Complex problems require integrated thinking (division of labor)
Community and workplace structures require team thinking and group consensus
Everyone operates as a member of many teams
Identified "team skills" can be taught, learned, and transferred to others
Morale improves when people identify themselves as a part of a successful team
"Team players" are more likely to be hired, retained, and promoted
People will support what they help develop
Guidelines for Building a Strong Team

Establish a team vision - "What are we capable of accomplishing?" "What are our dreams?"
Build trust with others - "People need to know you care before they care what you know."
Believe in your own self worth - "Success comes in cans, failures in cannots."
Practice your leadership skills
Help each other be right - rather than be wrong.
Help each other win - and take pride in each other's accomplishments.
Speak positively about each other - and about your organization at every opportunity.
Do everything with enthusiasm - it's contagious!
Believe in what you are doing - never give up!
Whatever you want - give it away.
Have fun - communicate that fun to others.



2.Apply Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Skills

Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.

Human performance in decision making terms has been the subject of active research from several perspectives. From a psychological perspective, it is necessary to examine individual decisions in the context of a set of needs, preferences an individual has and values they seek. From a cognitive perspective, the decision making process must be regarded as a continuous process integrated in the interaction with the environment. From a normative perspective, the analysis of individual decisions is concerned with the logic of decision making and rationality and the invariant choice it leads to.

Some of the decision making techniques people use in everyday life include:

Listing the advantages and disadvantages of each option, popularized by Plato and Benjamin Franklin
Choosing the alternative with the highest probability-weighted utility for each alternative
satisficing: Accepting the first option that seems like it might achieve the desired result
Acquiesce to a person in authority or an "expert", just following orders
flipism: Flipping a coin, cutting a deck of playing cards, and other random or coincidence methods
Prayer, tarot cards, astrology, augurs, revelation, or other forms of divination



3.Apply Teamwork and Leadership Qualities in Creating a Pleasant Work Environment

Glenn Parker also describes four team player styles in her book Team Players and Teamwork (1991):

Contributors - The productive people who get the work done.
Collaborator - Tends to see the big picture and is willing to pitch in and work outside defined roles to keep sight of the team's objective.
Communicator - Makes sure everyone understands what is going on and builds an informal and relaxed climate.
Challenger - The person who is always challenging the team to make sure the team is committed to what it is doing and has made all the right decisions.
It is important that each of these styles be in place within a team. Every team member should be taught to fill each style if possible so that if a style is not being filled, someone can step in and fill it. If all the members of a team are of one style, the team will never make any progress.

Stone, M. (1997 July) Team building. Essentials for Home Economics Education The Cornertone, 1-3.

Productive teams may be identified by characteristic behaviors of team members:

They are supportive of other group members
They fulfill their responsibilities in the group
They work to solve problems
They are good communicators, active listeners, and effective oral communicators
They show interest and empathize with the speaker
They ask questions
They hold their temper
They control argument and criticis




4.Determine the Impact of Cultural Diversity on Teamwork
Read Cultural Diversity and Teamwork at http://www.ericdigests.org/1995-2/teamwork.htm







5.Participate in Community Service Opportunities to Enhance Professional Skills

While you are still in college you can prepare yourself for a future career by volunteering in your chosen field, completing an internship or working with a mentor who can help you network.




CREDITED TO : STEPHEN F.AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF HUMAN SCIENCES

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Types of leadership styles

By -
Image
Types of leadership styles The types of leadership style expressed in animal characters. 1. Snail Low on performance, low on people style characteristics ·          Sets standards too low ·          Poor communicator ·          No authority Effects of this style 1.        Negative effect on morale. 2.        Negative effect on standard. 3.        Negative effect on training. This snail type of leadership usually concerned for performance and for the people under him or her team. 2. Tiger High on performance, low on people style characteristics ·          Authoritarian style ·          One-way communicator ·      ...
Read more

The Fall of Malacca Empire

By -
Image
The golden age of Malacca ended in 1511. Empire Malacca who called to an end after the Portuguese attack Malacca under the rule of Sultan Mansur Shah. Internal Factors WEAK LEADERSHIP & OPPRESSIVE ADMINISTRATION Weak ruling government is the root cause to the fall of the Malacca Sultanate. They were overdependence on Tun Perak until they can’t find a capable leader to replace him. After the death of the Bendahara Tun Perak, Malacca lacked an efficient leader as the replacement of Tun Perak which is Tun Mutahir as a Bendahara was a weak leader because he more concern on his personal welfare and biased during his administration. Many of the ministers expressed their dissatisfaction with this aspect of the way of his management style. As a result, there were often struggles for power. Besides, Sultan Mahmud who paid only a little attention to the administration consider as a weak leader too. He enables the officers to act as they pleased. Bribing and defamation ...
Read more

ISPS level of Security

By -
Image
hi guys, today i would like to tell the 3 security level of International Ship Port Facilities Security. so there are 3 level of security which level 1,2,3. the securities is tighten countdown with the number. number 3 is the highest security level and number 1 is the lowest.  google image - ISPS code so what is security number 1? google image - isps level 1 so according to marineinsight , level 1 is a normal security level, so what happen in the normal security level, the ship must execute: In normal level, both ships and port operations are carried out in general way. Minimum security measures are always maintained on board and in port. Ship and port operation are carried out as per ship and port facility security plan. Port facility ensures to keep the ‘no access’ areas under surveillance at all times. Ship and port authority mutually supervise loading and unloading operation of cargo and stores, ensuring access control and other minimum security cr...
Read more