Characteristics Of Team Leadership

Learning teams can provide a positive learning experience when there is high level of collaboration and commitment to accomplishing the task or job given to the team. When teams function properly, there is a pooling of knowledge generating more thoughts, ideas, and viewpoints which often leads to more creativity and a better end product or result. Our learning team functioned very well, with a high level of collaboration and motivation, resulting in a high quality presentation.

Team leadership was definitely evident in our learning project team. Team Leadership is an interdependent group of people who must coordinate their activities to accomplish their shared goals (Northouse, 2013). When evaluating our learning team against the Characteristics of Team Excellence, many of those characteristics were present in our team (Northouse, 2013, p. 299).

Clear, Elevating Goal, and Results-Driven Structure – The first meeting was spent clarifying our goals and putting a structure in place for us to accomplish our tasks. The objective of the assignment was clearly communicated and our learning team remain focused on the objective throughout the project. However, the process of how we were to accomplish the goals was a bit vague, so we had to spend time determining what we were going to do and how. Understanding that this

Kendra’s dominant leadership style is that of a servant leader, so her focus on relationships and followers first is in alignment with that of a servant leader. Conceptualizing is a behavior of a servant leader and she was helpful in clarifying our purpose and mission and encouraging and empowering our team. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving” (Colossians