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    The document discusses teamwork and leadership. It defines teamwork and the roles of leaders in fostering teamwork. Leaders can take actions using their own resources, like defining missions or establishing trust, and actions requiring organizational support, like rewards or technology. Outdoor training may help teamwork by building confidence through challenges, but effects may not last. The Leader-Member Exchange Model explains that leaders form close relationships with some "in-group" members and more distant relationships with "out-group" members.

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    The document discusses teamwork and leadership. It defines teamwork and the roles of leaders in fostering teamwork. Leaders can take actions using their own resources, like defining missions or establishing trust, and actions requiring organizational support, like rewards or technology. Outdoor training may help teamwork by building confidence through challenges, but effects may not last. The Leader-Member Exchange Model explains that leaders form close relationships with some "in-group" members and more distant relationships with "out-group" members.

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    The document discusses teamwork and leadership. It defines teamwork and the roles of leaders in fostering teamwork. Leaders can take actions using their own resources, like defining missions or establishing trust, and actions requiring organizational support, like rewards or technology. Outdoor training may help teamwork by building confidence through challenges, but effects may not last. The Leader-Member Exchange Model explains that leaders form close relationships with some "in-group" members and more distant relationships with "out-group" members.

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    Developing

    Teamwork
    Roll numbers:
    24,25,26
    Learning Objectives

    • Understand the leader’s role in a team-based organization.


    • Describe leader actions that foster teamwork.
    • Explain the potential contribution of outdoor training to the
    development of team leadership.
    • Describe how the leader-member exchange model contributes to
    an understanding of leadership.
    Teams and Teamwork
    • Team
    - Work group that must rely on collaboration of each member
    to experience optimum success and achievement.
    • Teamwork
    - Work down with an understanding and commitment to group
    goals on the part of all team members.
    • Developing teamwork is such an important leadership role that
    team building is said to differentiate successful from
    unsuccessful leaders.
    Distinguishing Between Teams and Groups

    Teams Groups

    • Characterized by a common commitment • May not have a strong commitment


    • Shared leadership roles • Members tend to work slightly more
    • Accomplishes many collective work independently
    products • Members have a strong leader
    • Includes individual & mutual
    • Emphasizes individual accountability
    accountability
    • Produce collective work product • Sometimes produce individual work products
    • Team leader encourages open-ended • Group leader runs an efficient meeting
    discussions and active problem-solving • More likely to discuss, divide, and delegate
    • Team members discuss, decide, and do
    real work together
    The Leader’s Role in the Team-Based
    Organization
    Team-based organizations need leaders who are knowledgeable in the team process and can
    help with the interpersonal demands of teams.
    Key roles of a team-based leader:
    • Building trust and inspiring teamwork
    • Coaching team members and group members toward higher levels of performance
    • Facilitating and supporting the team’s decisions
    • Expanding the team’s capabilities
    • Creating a team identity
    • Anticipating and influencing change
    • Inspiring the team toward higher levels of performance
    • Enabling and empowering group members to accomplish their work
    • Encouraging team members to eliminate low-value work
    Fostering Teamwork Leader’s Personality

    • Leader’s Personality
    - Inspiring, Charm, Charisma, Personal Magnetism
    • Informal Techniques
    - Using the Leader’s Resources
    • Formal Techniques
    - Requires Organizational Structures and Policies
    Teamwork Actions Leaders Can Take Using
    Their Own Resources
    • Defining team mission
    • Establishing a climate of trust
    • Develop a norm of teamwork, including emotional intelligence
    • Emphasize pride in being outstanding
    • Serve as a model of teamwork, including power sharing
    • Use a consensus leadership style
    • Establish urgency, demand performance standards, and provide direction
    • Encourage cooperation with another group
    • Encourage use of jargon
    • Minimize micro managing
    • Practice e-leadership for virtual teams
     Teamwork Actions Generally Requiring
    Organization Structure or Policy

    • Designing physical structures that facilitate communication


    • Emphasizing group recognition and rewardsInitiating ritual and
    ceremony
    • Practicing open-book management
    • Selecting team-oriented members
    • Using technology that facilitates teamwork including social media
    • Blending representatives from the domestic company and foreign
    nationals on the team
    Offsite Training & Team Development—
    Outdoor Training

    • Participation in experiential activities aimed at building teamwork


    and leadership skills
    • Participants acquire leadership and teamwork skills by confronting
    physical challenges and exceeding their self-imposed limitations.
    • Emphasis is typically on building not only teamwork but also self-
    confidence for leadership.
    • Outdoor training enhances teamwork by helping participants
    examine the process of getting things done through working with
    people.
    Offsite Training & Team Development—
    Outdoor Training

    • Pros:
    - Perception that trust, cooperation, communication, self-
    confidence, and teamwork improve with outdoor training.
    • Cons:
    - Perception that team members revert to old behaviors over time,
    team members come and go, thereby diluting the experience for
    their group, and team members are sometimes exposed to harm or
    injury.
    The Leader-Member Exchange Model &
    Teamwork (LMX)

    Proposes that leaders develop unique working relationships with


    group members.
    The Leader-Member Exchange Model &
    Teamwork (LMX)
    In-Group Out-Group

    • Given additional rewards, responsibility, • Treated in accordance with a more


    and trust in exchange for their loyalty formal understanding of leader-group
    and performance.
    member relations.
    • Leader has a good relationship with in-
    group members. • Less likely to experience good
    • Becomes part of a smoothly functioning teamwork.
    team headed by the formal leader. • Group members are treated like hired
    • Group members tend to have a higher hands.
    level of performance and commitment.
    • Group members receive little warmth
    • Group members are asked to
    participate. or encouragement.
    Summary

    • Teamwork is an understanding of and commitment to group goals on the part of all


    group members.
    • Leaders must occupy many roles and employ many strategies (actions) to be an
    effective team builder.
    • Leaders can foster and improve teamwork through actions using their own resources and
    through actions relying on organizational structures and policy.
    • Outdoor training is a popular experiential approach to enhance teamwork; however,
    opinions about its effectiveness are mixed.
    • According to the Leader-Member Exchange Model, leaders develop unique relationships
    with group members that result in an in-group and and out-group.
    • The leader’s first impression of a group member’s competency plays an important role
    in placing that person into the in-group or the out-group.

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