Running head: UNIT FOUR 1 Unit 4 Assignment Jasmine Azeem Columbia College 2 UNIT FOUR Jasmine Azeem Motivating Team Lead Inspire Your Team An opti-realistic is a leader who firmly believes in finding solutions to every problem and situation. This opti-realistic leader has such a high conviction that there is no doubt to a solution and is willing to prove to the team just how it could be done. One example is using the Jonas Salking approach. Assuring the group that the problem does and will work together to find a solution. For instance, Joseph is a team leader with a company that sells ice cream. Business is almost overwhelming in the summer months, but sales drop dramatically in the fall and winter. The problem is to find a solution in which the company would improve sales during those slow months. Joseph would use a strategy of creating the feeling that there is a solution and will find it. One strategy example Joseph would use is meeting with his team and reminding them of the previous winter months. He also states that the sales were so time-consuming that the business used ice cream trucks throughout neighborhoods and to the county fairs. A team member suggested that idea and it profited the industry. Using a change of scenery other than the business office and being reminded of how the ice cream truck helped the company is a strategy of environmental engineering. This approach gave hope that it could be done. Joseph motivates the team when they are frustrated and f ...
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