Team Leader
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A Team Leader is a team member who is a leader of a team of individuals.
- Context:
- They can (typically) have a Leadership Style.
- They can (typically) be measured by their ability to Deliver Results.
- They can (typically) be expected to be Followed.
- They can (typically) be expected to Make Decisions.
- They can (typically) be expected to be Accountable.
- They can (typically) develop Collective Competency (of team members).
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Teamwork, Leadership, Team Building.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_leader Retrieved:2020-11-12.
- A team leader is a person who provides guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group of individuals (the team) for the purpose of achieving a key result or group of aligned results. The team leader monitors the quantitative and qualitative achievements of the team and reports results to a manager . The leader often works within the team, as a member, carrying out the same roles but with the additional 'leader' responsibilities - as opposed to higher level management which often has a separate job role altogether. In order for a team to function successfully, the team leader must also motivate the team to "use their knowledge and skills to achieve the shared goals". When a team leader motivates a team, group members can function in a goal oriented manner. [1] A "team leader" is also someone who has the capability to drive performance within a group of people. Team leaders utilize their expertise, their peers, influence, and/or creativeness to formulate an effective team. Scouller (2011) defined the purpose of a leader (including a team leader) as follows: "The purpose of a leader is to make sure there is leadership … to ensure that all four dimensions of leadership are [being addressed].” The four dimensions being: a shared, motivating team purpose or vision or goal, action, progress and results, collective unity or team spirit, and attention to individuals. [2] Leaders also contribute by leading through example.
Team leader core responsibilities:
- Assemble team members with a combiination of skills required to accomplish goals
- Develop a strategy by which team members can use to reach various project goals
- Assign tasks to team members including those that he/she will manage
- Determine completion timeline and monitor progress to ensure project is on track
- Communicate progress to upper level management
- A team leader is a person who provides guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group of individuals (the team) for the purpose of achieving a key result or group of aligned results. The team leader monitors the quantitative and qualitative achievements of the team and reports results to a manager . The leader often works within the team, as a member, carrying out the same roles but with the additional 'leader' responsibilities - as opposed to higher level management which often has a separate job role altogether. In order for a team to function successfully, the team leader must also motivate the team to "use their knowledge and skills to achieve the shared goals". When a team leader motivates a team, group members can function in a goal oriented manner. [1] A "team leader" is also someone who has the capability to drive performance within a group of people. Team leaders utilize their expertise, their peers, influence, and/or creativeness to formulate an effective team. Scouller (2011) defined the purpose of a leader (including a team leader) as follows: "The purpose of a leader is to make sure there is leadership … to ensure that all four dimensions of leadership are [being addressed].” The four dimensions being: a shared, motivating team purpose or vision or goal, action, progress and results, collective unity or team spirit, and attention to individuals. [2] Leaders also contribute by leading through example.
2020
- (Willink, 2020) ⇒ Jocko Willink. (2020). “Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual.” ISBN:1250183863
- QUOTE: ... Leaders should never be satisfied. They must always strive to improve, and they must build that mind-set into the team. They must face the facts through a realistic, brutally honest assessment of themselves and their team’s performance. Identifying weaknesses, good leaders seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan to overcome challenges. The best teams anywhere, like the SEAL Teams, are constantly looking to improve, add capability, and push the standards higher. It starts with the individual and spreads to each of the team members until this becomes the culture, the new standard. The recognition that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders facilitates Extreme Ownership and enables leaders to build high-performance teams that dominate on any battlefield, literal or figurative. ...
2008
- (Boyatzis et al., 2008) ⇒ Richard Boyatzis, Elizabeth Stubbs Koman, and Steven B. Wolff. (2008). “Emotional Intelligence Competencies in the Team and Team Leader.” Journal of Management Development
- Purpose
- The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships among team leader emotional intelligence competencies, team level emotional intelligence, and team performance.
- Design/methodology approach
- It is argued here that the team leader's emotional intelligence (EI) will influence the development of group level emotional intelligence (GEI), which was measured by a team's emotionally competent group norms (ECGN). Second, it is hypothesized that the presence of ECGNs will positively influence group effectiveness. Data were collected from 422 respondents representing 81 teams in a military organization.
- Findings
- Results show that team leader emotional intelligence is significantly related to the presence of emotionally competent group norms on the teams they lead, and that emotionally competent group norms are related to team performance.