Essays on Team Leadership

Assignment 2: MS Project and Team Leadership

Introduction In any project, having unfocused, disengaged and team members who underperform can be very challenging and can sap the energy out of any vibrant team therefore slowing down business operation. Given proper management and motivation, most of these team members can form the greatest asset for any project manager while the opposite can happen when they work under poor management and where there is no motivation as well as where everyone in the team is demoralized. The choice to have a vibrant team always lies squarely on the hands of the project team leader and as such, the ...

Business

I. Copy/paste the following items from your major scholarly project into your Metacognitive Assignment document

The sentence or two that best gives your argument or analysis point (your thesis). 

“This decline in the retention rate reflects the implication of a problem caused by lack of the company’s attention on the importance of leadership and professional growth among its employees and top management. I believe poor publicity, lack of change-management training and leadership training, in addiction to inadequate public facing could be contributing to the surmounting issues facing Transurban”. One complete body paragraph (not your introduction or conclusion) that includes at least one reference to a secondary source and demonstrates your best work ...

1a). Leadership approaches relevant in the field of social work

Social workers often pride themselves in their capacity to efficiently assist those that they serve. Notably, this is their primary competence and as a result are committed to individual dignity, significance of relationships, service delivery, and social justice. Therefore, the first approach of leadership in the field of social work would be to practice an authentic type of leadership. An authentic leader would have in his possession an emotional resolve making the leader gain the required confidence from his peers. Besides, it shows one’s willingness to lead. When one practices an authentic type of leadership, he is bound ...

Business Plan Proposal

Business Identification of Problem Poor publicity can affect a wonderful product and can lead to an uphill battle getting back into good standing with your customers, community, employees and stakeholders. Competent leaders are a necessity to rally teammates in tough times, even though acquiring and retention of qualified individuals may pose to be even more of a struggle. Recently, Transurban, the company that designs and operates the Express Lanes on I-495, I-95, and I-395, have taken on some bad publicity with civil lawsuits, deaths on the Express Lanes, back-ups on the lanes that are a result of user accidents ...

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PART 1: PROJECT INITIATION

Project Brief In the history of Olympics, this project has been termed by many experts as being the most complex in Europe. A number of factors conspired to ensure this is the case. First, the project was to be delivered within a short deadline that was provided for. Because London had won a bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, there was a need to have the facility ready in the shortest time possible. The second reason why the project was complex is because of the unique environment in which it was to be located. The ...

Part 1: Reflect on planning and implementing a structured behavioral job selection interview including reflection on the Observed Skills Exercise practical application of behavioral skills Structured behavioral job interviews assist in investigating candidate’s future by assessing his/her past performance. The purpose of conducting structured based interview questions is to assess whether the candidate has desired qualities or not. The interview processes enable to get to know knowledge, skills and abilities of a candidate, which helps the interviewer to select the right candidate for the right position. In the structured behavioral interview questions, the questions are formulated on the ...

Management of both employees and production has been an epochal subject in a global world. The fact is the managers of various organizations need the performance of workers to boost the organizational production. The perturbing questions to most of the managers are the effective management styles that endeavor to embrace both the employees and the production. In early 1960s, Robert Blake and Jane Mouton developed a Managerial Grid Model. Blake and Mouton realized the imperativeness of the employees and production in the organization. In view of the aforementioned, the two innovators included the two factors, the concern for people and the ...

Leadership Strategies for a Changing World

There has been a significant breakthrough in team leadership. The past few years have witnessed tremendous change in leadership styles and team management. However, there has been very less scholarly research undertaken on team leadership especially in a change management situation. This assignment will discuss the manner in which Kotter’s eight-step model of change management works in team-based organizations. Firms have to consistently implement changes to the altering environment so as to grow and maintain their market share. In order to remain and sustain it is essential for firms to adapt to change. The technological breakthrough and the ...

Arguably, leadership is very important factor in every organization. There are tremendous evolutions of team leadership in society today. Team leadership has evolved over time and continues to make evolve. One of the changes includes accountability and responsibility in leadership rather than team leadership. In the past, the responsibility of team leadership was more of a group. Recently, leadership has evolved and focuses more on accountability. The responsibility of leadership has shifted from team leadership to the hands of individuals.

The next generation of team leadership is characterized by high performance. The leadership in the past was more of making ...

2.1 Effective Change Management 12 2.2 Structural 13 2.3 People-Centered 14 2.4 Process-Oriented 15 2.5 Strategy-Oriented 15 2.6 Summary 16

References 18

Introduction What is change management and how does it relate to operational efficiency? When change is introduced to an organization, management itself on various levels normally decides on altering how operations and related work is practiced. The main categories of change management are organizational structure, job descriptions, operational systems, and processes. Change management varies from project management, where the former is defined as a process associated with the tools and techniques to regulate any ...

Introduction:

Leadership is critical to the success of every organization. Various leadership theories suggest diverse ways in which leaders should involve their followers in realization of the organization’s goals. Equally, the theories bear similarities. In the modern complex organizations, no single leadership theory can be applied exclusively but application of a combination of leadership theories is critical to organizational success.

Description of the Substitute for Leadership Theory and Transformational Theory

Substitute for Leadership Theory Substitute for leadership theory is founded on the principle that there are certain situational factors in which the leader’s influence is either neutralized or substituted i.e. the leader’s impact is limited. There are ...

Introduction

Global business environment is placing more and more pressure on the organizational ability to address diversity in the company. The reality shows that cultural, racial and social diversity along with geographical disperse of the companies creates new and, yet, not fully explored field in Human Resource Management (HRM), Leadership and Management studies. Modern considerations on the selection and recruitment processes that call for specific cross-cultural management capabilities outline the direction in which leadership and management practices have been and will continue to evolve in the near future (Sims, 2007). Team work and leadership practices in this field are one ...

Intech Mini Case

Effective leadership involves the process of developing motivated and satisfied followers (Hughes H. R., 2012). Motivation provides direction, power and determination to behavior. It makes a person put more effort when undertaking any activity and to persist with the effort for a certain period. Performance involves how individual behaviors affect the missions and goals. Satisfaction deals with how one feels about the work activity, promotion and pay (Hughes H. R., 2012). Best leaders are those who motivate workers to perform at a higher level but at the same time, they maintain a higher level of job satisfaction. Motivational theories and approaches such as ...

I. Glossary. 1. Evidence-based Medicine: Strategy to integrate clinical expertise and scientific evidence to improve patient care.

Chapter 1, Power Point Slide 6.

2. Evidence-based Management: Useful method in managerial decision-making that relies on information that has been systematically gathered, stored, analyzed and reported.

Chapter 2, Power Point Slide 14.

3. HIPAA: A 1996 law that allowed individuals to maintain health insurance when they changed jobs, and established standards for electronic healthcare transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.

Chapter 3, Power Point Slide 6.

4. Chief Information Officer (CIO): A member of the executive management team in charge of the health information technology team leadership.

Chapter 4, Power Point Slides 2-3.

5. Data Standardization: A method ...

Tom Coughlin serves as New York Giants head coach, a team that has two Super Bowl titles within the period of his management. During the initial stages, of his team leadership, Coughing applied tactics, which appeared as dictatorial leadership of the team. The players stated the worst experiences with his leadership as receiving fines for lateness during team meetings (Blanken, 2013). During these initial stages players doubted if he would serve during the entire season as head coach. However, the strictness he presented enabled the players to develop discipline and established a sense of team management. It came with costs as ...

Management Leadership Skills

Introduction Management is the ability to exercise good and comprehensive control over the responsibilities that come with being employed. There are two perspectives to management in an organization. These are individual management and team management. In this section, the focus is on team management leadership skills. There are certain organizations that emphasize the need for the employees to work within certain recognized teams. This section focuses on how efficiently employees can provide leadership to the team that they are involved in.

This section looks at the elements of leading a team. Most importantly, it cites various incidences when our ...

This discussion board post discusses the leadership qualities of Gary Kelly. He is the President, CEO and Board Chairman of Southwest Airlines, a notable American low cost air carrier. Prior to his promotion as CEO and Chairman in 2008, Kelly had served as Southwest’s controller, CFO, and Vice President (Finance). Under his leadership, the corporation has grown into becoming US’ largest and most admired airline (SWA, 2013). Kelly displays three leadership qualities that that makes him an effective leader. One of these is his ability to ensure flexibility in management. For instance, Kelly is aware of unexpected changes ...

how can you improve on your leadership skills?

Philosophy and Number

Describe the following as it relates to leadership development. - Self-confidence is a large portion of developing as a leader. Where are you currently in regards to self-confidence? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve your self-confidence? Indeed, self-confidence is a large part of developing as a leader. Currently, I have a mild degree of self-confidence. I know how to deal with people at an appropriate time. Because I strongly believe that self-confidence is one of the most invaluable leadership characteristics, I use it to influence ...

Insititutional Affliation:

Two Strategies in an Interdisciplinary Team In a bid to restructure healthcare and the evolving interdisciplinary teamwork, leaders have been challenged to be responsible when working with organizational and institutional groups. Clinicians and nurses must endeavor to work as member-leaders to improve on healthcare objectives and patient outcomes. Shared leadership and stewardship are some of the strategies where a nurse takes a leaders role without appearing formally as a leader (Heinmann & Zeiss, 2002). Nurses’ stewards make reasonable changes in their practice based on courage and discipline. This is through logical reasoning of the best in every situation. Improved healthcare environment characterized by ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human resource management refers to a planned approach to managing people effectively for performance. Managing human resource is aimed at establishing a flexible and a caring management style in order to motivate staff so as to make them perform to their best. In order for the business to achieve its set objectives, there is need to develop strategies which aims at enabling the available human resource to perform to their fullest. However, certain factors ought to be considered such as the low performance organization and high performance organizations. This paper aims at answering some questions related to human resource management. ...

1: INTRODUCTION

- History and Importance of Team Work A team is a group of people with complementary skills who work together to achieve a common purpose. (Armstrong M.2008) The concept of team work has a deep rooted history dating back to over 2000 years ago. It is a character that exists even within animals. Early man use to collaborate together in order to hunt down large animals like Elephants. Likewise, beings such as ants collaborate to build a big anthill. In the past, Jesus Christ advised his disciples to work in teams. Human beings often have weaknesses. It only takes the eyes and the ...

Many people belief that leaders are God Chosen. Leadership has been defined as that process of social influence, in which a person can help others in achieving a given task. In Lehman’s language, leadership is organizing people in groups, with an aim of achieving common goals. For any project to succeed there ought to be appropriate leadership. Such leaders are then given the responsibility of decision making on crucial matters such as resource allocation among others. However, leadership without cooperation from group members is just like a passing wind. To achieve an effective system of leadership, there must be teamwork amongst ...

This paper limits itself to the discussion of maximizing team performance. It begins by introducing the concept of team leadership and teamwork by highlighting the most essential features that can enable team leaders to bring out the best out of their teams. Within the introduction, it identifies the factors that are critical for enhancing the performance of team members. From the introduction, the paper examines the impediments to high team performance and outlines the causative factors. This includes failure to create visionary strategies, lost interests in team activities, lack of role specification, and poor motivation. The importance of overcoming ...

Workplace behaviour is a common topic of modern psychological studies behaviour within an organisation is an important aspect of human psychological functioning. Work psychology is mainly concerned with several relationships, but the main issues are the relationship between the individual and the individual’s work and the relationships among the members of an organisation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Other areas of interest for work psychology are personnel selection, education, performance appraisals, organisational development, personal development, workplace safety, and motivation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Despite the amount of different factors that define workplace behaviour, knowing leadership skills, employee motivation ...