Improving Your Leadership Skills

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Overview/Description
You didn't volunteer for the job, but they have made you a team leader. Congratulations. Now what should you do? You might start by examining your leadership style. Then consider the times when you'll need to take control and the other times--the majority of the time--when you need to fade into the background and allow the competent members of your team to lead themselves. After all, you're not the manager, just the leader. Leadership involves a complicated set of skills. First, you'll need to have the people skills to encourage teamwork and build team spirit. You'll also need to be able to guide the team, that was formed to accomplish a particular task, to manage that task. Another part of your job may be to facilitate meetings. You need to know how to put your team members' time to its best use--how to keep meetings short and effective. Discover how to be an effective team leader in Improving your Leadership Skills.

Target Audience
Project team leaders, project team members, team leaders, team members, junior management

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

The Reluctant Team Leader

recognise the importance of developing the skills required to lead a project team.

match the leadership styles to their descriptions.

select the skills of the empowering team leader.

match the extent of leader participation in team decision-making with the corresponding scenario.

The People Leader

recognise the value of developing leadership skills for handling the more human aspects of the team.

select the methods of leading people to success in their team roles.

identify the strategies for encouraging teamwork.

select the appropriate tips for building team spirit.

The Task Leader

recognise the importance of developing leadership skills for dealing with the task aspects of the team.

select the tips for managing the task issues on the team.

identify the tasks involved in setting up a team communication system.

select the guidelines for choosing between making a decision by yourself and involving others in that decision.

The Meeting Facilitator

recognise the advantages of effectively facilitating meetings.

select the guidelines for beginning meetings effectively.

choose the strategies that help your meetings to be more productive.

identify the tips for dealing with problem team members in meetings.

Course Number:
TEAM8136