objectives. As a manager/leader your role is to plan, motivate, organise and control the team and at the same time be understanding to the needs of the individual members with out losing
sight of your responsibility to the organisation.
Team Formation
Forming is the initial stage that teams must go through as it develops. It is the time when initial assessments about the job and other team members are formed.
Individuals are finding their place in the group in the group dynamic. This is the time when the group leader will take note of who seems sure of their place and those who seem to be struggling to fit in. As a leader, it may be beneficial to adopt a parental style of leadership to guide them to their place and become part of the team, but also to curb any activity of the more extroverted members that may be detrimental to the team.
The leader must also guide the team into the correct work method. The leader must keep the POMC theory in mind when deciding what is best for the team.
Storming, the second stage, is the phase once the initial dynamics are established, work objectives laid out and leadership styles made known that some members of the team may take issues on how the team function. They may, in their, try to orchestrate a failure in order to complain about team ineffectiveness to those higher up the management scale.
Members of the team may also begin to re-evaluate their attitudes and behaviour to others.
The leader may have to become autocratic at this point in order to lay down the law to those members of the team who are out of line and get them working toward the team objectives. However it is important to allow criticisms to come out into the open and aim to resolve them.
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