As a leader, going into the combat of business, you will only go as far as your team. No matter your cleverness, devotion, your firmness, and your knowledge, without a sustaining team, you will not succeed. And without leaders in that supporting team, you will fail.
Building, managing, and maintaining and effective team can be an overwhelming and sensitive process. There are a number of key reasons why teams fail. They include the helplessness of the team or the organization to establish clear goals everyone can relate to, an inability by the team to clearly define its own roles within the team, and poor leadership of the team or the organization. More important is the failure by the team to handle its own interpersonal relationships. There are several key factors in having an effective team. In this essay we will explore a few.
First and foremost a manager must be able to select the right people for the right job. The managers ability to hire/or select the right people on a team is extremely important. Managers should hire as much for attitude as they do for aptitude. Managers should take his or her time, and also have the courage to get rid of the difficult people already in place. Demand excellence from yourself and from your team members and stop accepting mediocrity.
Managing an effective team start with the team leader, he or she must know how to make good decisions. In week two of class, we discussed the Role of Perception in Making. We learned how perceptions vary from person to person. People perceive ideas and thoughts differently in terms of the same situations. Perception in decision making is no different. No ...