Leadrship
chamakuzhi subramanian
An article on leadership for yr info. given below:-
IS THERE A LEADER IN YOU?
Are you the one who always stand behind or do you lead from the front?
Do you always want to follow or create a trend and then let others
trail you? Do you possess the drive that motivates a team or do you
always lack in impetus? To know more about essential ingredients of a
team and what it takes to be a team leader, read on...
Team groups whose members have common goals and some degree of
interdependence in achieving these goals -- are the foundation of
contemporary organizations. As a result, the ability to create and
lead high-performing teams is essential to every leader's success. All
teams -- senior teams, management teams, task forces, steering
committees, matrix teams, project teams, and intact work teams --
require their leaders to create team-based structures and processes
that support a skilled and motivated workforce in delivering seamless,
high-quality goods and serves to their customers. Having the ability
to lead high-performing teams means being skilled in the following
competency components:
* Providing team leadership
* Creating a team vision
* Attracting and developing team talent
* Designing a team architecture
* Establishing effective team processes
* Building a team culture
* Assuring quality products and services
As you reflect on the seven competency components of lead high-
performing teams, rate yourself in each area on a scale of 1 to 5.
This will help you determine both your areas of strength and the areas
that need development.
The seven competency components of lead high-performing teams:
Component 1: Providing Team Leadership
This includes believing in the value of teams and being willing to
empower team members to do their jobs; sharing power appropriately so
that some aspects of leadership can be rotated among team members;
being able to play numerous roles as needed (e.g., facilitator,
"orchestra" conductor, coach, mentor, and disciplinarian); inspiring
excellence and commitment within the team through your words and
actions; being perceived as making wise decisions; treating all team
members fairly; establishing clear boundaries, rules, and authority
structures that enable the team to do its work effectively; having
organizational credibility and being well networked; and both
obtaining resources for the team (e.g., information, time, and money)
and running interference between the team and the organization when
needed.
Component 2: Creating a Team Vision
This involves developing a collaborative, compelling, and shared team
vision based on both a strategic analysis of the environment and a set
of core values; creating a team mission and a set of strategies and
goals that are aligned with both the team's and the larger
organization's vision, mission, strategy, and philosophy; ensuring
that the team's subunits support the larger team vision, mission, and
strategy; and being able to translate the team's vision, mission, and
strategy into reality through the team's commitment to take action.
Component 3: Attracting and Developing Team Talent
This involves developing a team that is so highly regarded that it
attracts the best talent; recruiting talent from sources that are
likely to generate excellent new hires; hiring new team members whose
capabilities are matched to both current and anticipated business
needs; using interviewing processes that accurately assess which
candidates have the best skills and can also thrive in a team
environment; orienting and integrating new team members so that they
can perform quickly and effectively; providing a variety of ongoing
development opportunities and honest feedback -- both positive and
negative -- so that team members are supported, challenged, and
continuously learning and growing; and coaching or mentoring team
members so that each individual can contribute his or her personal
best.
Component 4: Designing a Team Architecture
This includes structuring work in a flexible and effective way and
reorganizing the work and/or specific jobs as needed; providing
clarity about individual and team roles and expectations so that all
members understand both their own and one another's jobs, with enough
role flexibility provided to foster creativity, innovation, and
initiative; establishing individual and team accountabilities and
metrics, and regularly monitoring individual and team performance; and
establishing a reward system that reinforces both the individual and
team behaviors required for success.
Component 5: Establishing Effective Team Processes
This involves designing effective and efficient work-flow processes;
ensuring that work between and among team members is well coordinated;
creating multiple communication vehicles that are efficient, accurate,
and timely so that information flows freely within the team and
between the team and other parts of the organization; providing
clarity regarding the team's scope of authority and its decision-
making processes; communicating information about decisions in a clear
and timely manner; planning and facilitating meetings that encourage
participation, make the best use of time, and produce important
results; and ensuring that differences and conflicts are responded to
in a timely and constructive manner.
Component 6: Building a Team Culture
This includes creating a positive, collaborative environment in which
employees feel valued, respected, and appreciated; developing an
inclusive culture in which diversity of perspective style, and
background is perceived as value-added; designing an atmosphere in
which individual strengths are leveraged, and in which the synergy
within the team creates even higher performance levels than would be
achieved by individual team members alone; creating a vibrant sense of
esprit de corps; recognizing and celebrating both individual and team
milestones and success; and fostering a culture of innovative problem
solving, continuous learning, and well-calibrated risk taking.
Component 7: Assuring quality products and services
This means creating a quality-focused culture in which everyone
strives for excellence; identifying, designing, and delivering
products and services in accordance with customer needs and, at the
same time, working collaboratively with customers to help them
understand when their requests are not realistic; setting up multiple
feedback channels between the team and its customers, vendors,
suppliers, and distributors; and building quality and improvement into
every aspect of the team's products, services, and ways of working
together.
Also read: 7 essentials to be a great leader
: Narayana Murthy on leadership and
values
Hope u enjoyed.
Yrs,
Chamakuzhi subramanian