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Review the Harvard Business School reprint, Leading Teams. Consider the criteria for successful teams and the factors needed to ensure teams are structured for success.
Create a plan (750-1,000 words) describing the steps necessary to create more successful teams at various levels within your organization. Include the following in the plan:
Define the characteristics and structure of successful teams within your organization. How are independent teams vital to the success of your organization?
- What are important factors to consider when leading teams within the various levels of the organization?
- What factors are important to consider when leading teams at the executive level?
- What aspects are essential in identifying appropriate members for teams and ensuring the teams are successfully launched?
- What factors are important to ongoing team dynamics? Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams.
- Compassion is a significant attribute of many religions and philosophies, including a Christian worldview, as well as being important for both authentic and servant leadership. As a leader, how would you empower your teams through compassion to honor diversity and support equality for all members as they work toward a common goal?
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Creating and Leading Teams – Outline
Thesis statement: In a nutshell, the success of teams depends on the effectiveness of the
leaders and the members of the team.
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Introduction
Characteristics and structure of teams
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Importance of independent teams
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Factors to consider when leading teams within organization
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Factors to consider as executive
Identifying team members
What factors are important to ongoing team dynamics?
Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams
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Compassion
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Conclusion
Running head: CREATING AND LEADING TEAMS
Creating and Leading Teams
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CREATING AND LEADING TEAMS
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Creating and Leading Teams
Current working organizations are very diverse and dynamic. Therefore, when creating
teams, one cannot just blindly pick members. The members selected for teams have to be able to
work together in harmony to achieve the goals of the teams. Therefore, it is important to consider
the important factors that affect the working of the teams. As a team leader, it is also important to
have the important attributes and understand the team dynamics to lead effectively. In a nutshell,
the success of teams depends on the effectiveness of the leaders and the members of the team.
Independent teams are important in my organization for several reasons. First, the teams
complete deferent tasks from one another and collectively lead to the success of the organization
(Polzer, 2003). Independent teams also work with minimal interference from outside the teams
and are therefore likely to be successful in the organization as the condition leads to competition
in the organization.
Teams should be structured well to be successful. Good teams should have good
leadership and followership. The members of the team should be arranged based on their skills
and competencies in the team (Polzer, 2003). The team members should be selected and grouped
based on the size of the team and the complexity as well as the interdependence of the tasks of
the team. Successful teams have members that are good at the various tasks, and the members
should work together based on how the functions are dependent on each other.
The factors that leaders should consider when leading teams at various levels of an
organization include the attributes of the task at hand. The attributes of tasks include the
complexity of the task. The complexity of tasks involves the various aspects that have to work
together to ensure that the task is completed (Polzer, 2003). Less complex tasks may not require
teamwork, and the use of teams may waste time. Aspects of the complexity factor i...