Respond to the posts on topic: As a manager/team leader would you rather be assigned to a highly successful team, or a team that is less than successful. Why or why not?
Reply to the three attached posts.
Topic: As a manager/team leader would you rather be assigned to a highly successful team, or a team that is less than successful. Why or why not?
All responses should be at least 150 words and require some information from the text, academically reviewed paper, some significant commentary that requires knowledge of the subject matter, a web link to an article or other source in order to be accepted. Please use APA 6 format.
by Dipen Brahmbhatt
The well-being of an organization needs to have efficiently working teams that are managed properly and are used for the completion of important business tasks. It is a strict responsibility of a manager of a team to guide the team members towards betterment. A manager can ensure the success of the team when the elements of effective communication, delegation, strength, and efficiency of the team, collaboration, innovative ideas, and mutual support exist among the team members. These features are necessary for the success of a team, and further this team leads the organization to higher levels of success as well (Deakinco, 2016). However, being the manager of a less successful team would be a better opportunity as there would be a potential for mutual growth of both, team members and the company. A great leader always leads a team to greatness, hence to help out a less successful or failing team, a steadfast and resilient leader/ manager must be appointed. Dealing with an unsuccessful team as a manager could be difficult but it is an essential role because the responsibility of raising the standards of a team could be challenging. To deal with such a situation, it is preferred to start the management of a failing team by building a rapport with all individuals of the team, discussing the multiple viewpoints of the members, making reports side by side for better understanding and planning, noticing the members that are working efficiently and pin-pointing those who are not putting the required efforts to the assigned tasks, setting up some defined rules for the team members, welcoming constructive criticism, and introducing advanced methodologies that might prove helpful in lifting the spirits of a failing team (Kashyap, 2019). Working with such teams that need a good manager’s help is helpful for the leader as well because such tasks are like tests for their leadership qualities as well.
REFERENCES
Deakinco. (2016). The five elements of successful teamwork. Retrieved from
https://www.deakinco.com/media-centre/news/the-five-elements-of-successful-teamwork
Kashyap, S. (2019). Tips for Managers to Rescue a Failing Team. Retrieved from
https://blog.proofhub.com/8-tips-to-rescue-a-failing-team-and-make-it-a-pro-team-c3c7b4f9a049
by
Manoj Kumar Sintala
Highly successful teams can perform under pressure with minimal supervision and little training. The most successful teams tend to have a highly competent and experienced leader, and are willing to accept significant risks and rewards. They have strong communication skills, especially with others within the team and the team leader. Team members are skilled at summarizing problems and issues, helping each other with problems, sharing information, and making decisions. Team members are highly motivated to help others, are able to work with other team members, and are confident in their abilities to manage conflict and develop constructive ideas about team processes. Team members are often extremely critical of themselves and others about their abilities and effectiveness, and they often believe they do not work well with others. These team members often feel uncomfortable about the degree to which they can successfully lead others. This may result in the team not working effectively, making sure other team members are doing their jobs properly, or taking on tasks that they feel are more important to others. As noted above, many teams have had a number of team members who have successfully created a culture of openness, creativity, and collaboration with a sense of self-satisfaction. If successful, team members are able to explore new approaches that take away from internal conflict, and they are also able to establish boundaries and expectations that ensure that their behaviours contribute to team outcomes—in other words, fostering team building. Perhaps the most important takeaway from this research is that creating a positive work environment can be done in almost any environment in the organization.
References
Heathfield, S. M. (2008). Twelve tips for team building: How to build successful work teams.
Human Resources, 7-11.
Todorova, G. (2019). Building and managing great teams: An evidence-based approach.
Journal of Commercial Biotechnology,
24(4).
by
Krishna Battu
A manager or leader is the person that leads you in any organization. The difference between a good and bad manager lies in the fact that a good manager allows you to work with all the trust while a bad manager makes you do the work no matter what the consequences are. Being a manager, I would rather select a team that is not very successful but skilled enough as the successful team can bring you the outcomes easily but being the manager or the leader the real abilities and capabilities lies in the fact that the slow runners ultimately wins the race through constant efforts and hard work. The skilled and learned leader helps the team to achieve the desired results by providing them the right directions and thorough support (Fapohunda, 2013). Being a manager I would like to lead a team that doesn’t have pre-defined methods and changes during the progression will disturb the team’s motivation. A less successful team will look for more motivation and ideas and ask for guidance so that they could work collectively to achieve the goals. I would not select a successful team as they will have their ways to perform. They will be skilled enough to complete the tasks on their own. On the other hand, the team that is not successful will listen to the directions and instructions from their manager. Managerial traits will help to encourage the team members and will allow them to explore more ways to achieve the desired results. New innovative techniques and opportunities will be provided to the team members so that they can explore their abilities to work in complex work environments. Therefore, I would rather select a not-so-skilled team and train them to better and successful so that they could easily adapt to the changes and work effectively to achieve the goals (Miller, n.d.).
References
Fapohunda, T. (2013, January ). Towards Effective Team Building in the Workplace. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258344173_Towards_Effective_Team_Building_in_the_Workplace
Miller, L. M. (n.d.). Team Management: The Core Practice of A High Performance Organization. Retrieved from https://www.lmmiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Team-Management