Creating a collaborative culture within an organization is a skill that the leadership must offer if the leader expects the team to accomplish goals and objectives. This assignment requires students to report on two positive outcomes at the organizational level; which, leaders have successfully created a collaborative culture. It is important that collaborative team and organization put emphasis on people at all levels; because, if this does not happen, organization get into trouble if they do not collaborate with others and respond readily as members of the total team ( Dyer, &, Dyer, 2013). The first experience occurs in my position as a Campaign office manager. The included the team leader and eight team member. The leader …show more content…
The leader did not have a clear direction or vision. Finally, when the new leader arrived the team members weres inspired work together for the common goals and collaboration was activated. The most significant impact on the companies ' collaborative culture; was the team members were enthusiastic about collaborating. The new leader was transparent, willing to listen, respected the team members and invited members to be respectful toward each other and encouraged unity. My position within a Social Services Agency; as a Counselor is the second professional experience as it relates to creating a collaborative culture. There were ten team members; in addition to the leader. The team leader manipulate the team members by communicating personal values, and narrow mindedness. Team members express difficulty in meeting job requirements, because the team leader was to demanding. In addition, the leader was confrontation and lack listening skills. The owner was inform of team members complaints and requested a meeting with the leader. The leader had no idea of the personal behavior presented to the team members and ask the owner, what change could be made;
My team consists of four other people besides myself, Lauren Chojnaki, Alexa-Louise Patnode, and Jacobe Loewen, and Ryan Tyriver. Together, we are tasked with the mission to complete a stakeholder analysis regarding a specific organization and their structure. For this project to be completed successfully, it is important that all team members are able to cooperate with one another and are able to use their different strengths to create the best end product.
It focuses on how to formulate and define clearly vision statement (organizational culture), challenging goals (organizational strategy) and gaining respect and trust (Humphreys & Einstein, 2003). The leaders encouraging participations, willing to take risks and acting as role models, who are highly admired, respected and trusted by their followers (Conger and Kanungo, 1998; Howell and Frost, 1989 and Bass & Riggio, 2006). Therefore, the followers will be highly motivated to perform beyond leaders’ expectations (Howell and Avolio,
Collaborative leadership is defined by a process, rather than what leaders do. Collaborative leadership can be implemented
Chrislip, David D. and Carl E. Larson. Collaborative Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass Publishers, 1994.
Teams have become integral parts and driving forces of success in organizations. A key common attribute among highly
“A manager manages using authority-or the right to get others to do things by virtue of their positional power. While a leader leads through the ability to influence other people to do things using a certain degree of personal power or charisma” (McLean, 2005, p. 16). By definition, leadership is about influence. Therefore, it is impossible to discuss the theme of leadership without including followers or to try to explain the idea of team building without explaining the influence of a leader. While each concept is unique, both have a direct affect on the other. A leader is not a leader without someone following him or her and a team will always develop a leader whether indirectly or directly appointed. However, leadership and team building are much like the preverbal chicken and egg; and many theories have developed over several years trying to explain the influence on each other and the successful development of teams and leaders.
Team building is an exercise that does not only require the input of resources but also the one that requires coordination and strategic planning throughout its implementation. In the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni, the author couldn’t be more elaborate in defining team building. He is keen on giving his business ideas in this book, and in the process, he gives a practical approach towards modeling a group characterized by effective team co-operation. The changes in the administration often come as a shock, but they often are a necessary evil that every institution needs in order to prosper. Michele Mickey was a determined and hard-working employee.
One of the many problems I have discussed when taking undergraduate business classes was cultural teamwork barriers. This problem will arise in almost any work place because different culture has different way of doing certain things. Of course, this issue doesn’t arise just in the work place. During my four-years in college, when I was doing team group projects, this issue will cause frustration among members as well. The most difficult part of cultural teamwork is getting the other person to accept your ideas or you accepting their ideas instead. The truth is, teamwork is necessary if you want to succeed in the working world. During my four years in college, I was able to accumulate more team collaboration skills. This is due to the fact that I am an international student and sometimes my ideas are very different than western business ideas. And in order for me to succeed in team work, I had to collaborate with different students and learn to accept their ideas. However, this does not mean I’ve given up on my ideas; I will present my ideas and share it with other team members. Also, I will use evidence to support my ideas which gives other members confidence to support my way of thinking. I believe I am the mediator type leader in which I will help solve problems among team members and get everyone to accept each other’s
It is proven that teams who work well together perform and have a higher rate of success compared to teams who do not work well together or communicate with each other. A recent article with regards to leadership discussed the topic of group cohesion and how this is a factor for success. The article discussed several situations, one about a business company, one about a sports team and one about a military operation. The article closely analyzed the leaders of the three situations and discussed the similarities and differences between the three. The main similarity between was there focus on cohesion. The article contained facts about how the business was operating and how that in recent years, production and sales as increased drastically, and one factor for this increase was the CEO implemented a mandatory team building exercise each
Larson, C. and LaFasto, F. (1989), Teamwork: What Must Go Right/What Can Go Wrong. Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
(Harris, 2004 / Elmore, 2000). The primary trait of this culture is collaboration, underpinned by high level of trust, mutual respect and transparency (Silcox, Boyd 2016). Third point of agreement is that distributed leadership mainly focuses on development of instructional leadership, rather than other organizational functions. (Timperly,
The group leader, instead of empathetically trying to work out the issues with the member she seemed to propel the dysfunction forward with the way she spoke. Universality was present when certain individuals agreed they felt the same way as a troubled member. Altruism and interpersonal learning was also a factor by member support and validation of each other. * Group Development: An opportunity for the group to enter the working stage was missed by not exploring the conflict that was occurring.
(1) I would like to create an optimum work environment by demonstrating collaborative behavior myself. This will inspire my team to follow or model the same behavior (Gratton and Erickson, 2007). (2) I will also allow myself adequate time daily to coach my team on the basis of creativity and innovation to improve business performance (Coutu and Beschloss, 2009). I will give clear direction to my team as to where we are going as a team together. According to Coutu & Beschloss (2009) unless the leader provides a clear direction, there is a real risk that different members will pursue different plans. That is why it is important to articulate a clear direction for my team to makse that everyone is on the same page as we’re moving forward (Coutu and Beschloss, 2009). (3) I will establish a sense of community – When people feel a sense of inclusivity, they are more likely to reaching out to others and share their knowledge to improve effective collaboration in a creative and innovative way (Gratton and Erickson,
Realizing that a group can become a high performance team is important. Accomplishing this goal is invaluable, advantageous and profitable. Once able to operate from a group to the high performing team is a great step into preparation into the big business world. Leaders and members must also realize not only how to accomplish this but that some problems will and can arise from different demographic characteristics and cultural diversity. That is if one is in such a group, which the probability would be quite high.
In order for teamwork to be successful in the workplace it involves building a relationship and working with other people. The ability to work as part of a team is one of the most important skills in today’s job market. Working cooperatively and contributing to groups with ideas, and suggestions benefits everyone. A key to team effectiveness