The Challenges Of Team Leadership In Team Building

Leadership in Team Building Organizations today face many challenges that were not as prevalent decades ago. These challenges include workforce diversity, leadership style changes, ever-changing technology, and culture relevance to name a few. Organizations put emphasis on management and the effectiveness management has on those that work for them. In today’s philosophies, we shift from managers to leaders and from individuals to team based environments. Successful organizations realize that empowered employees can help make strategic decisions, especially in a team-based culture. Research shows that many leaders understand this concept and actually prefer working with teams versus working one on one with individuals. In this paper,

According to Holton (2001), “The challenge to team building in a virtual environment is that of creating avenues and opportunities for team members to have the level and depth of dialogue necessary to create a shared future” (p.1). Additional challenges for virtual team leaders is having to rely heavily on technology to foster teamwork such as social media, email, video conferencing, and more. As I mentioned earlier, developing team leadership does not happen overnight. A leader must engage in the team environment, learn the ins and outs of each individual, and then apply these leanings to the group

They must understand the dynamics of the team process as well as be the expert for the group to rely upon. The leader has to wear multiple hats while building trust, inspiring great teamwork, and facilitating the groups’ needs. The leader must also recognize the power of the team, and empower the team to make decisions so they have more skin in the game. It was very interesting doing the comparisons between the three organizations and finding that leadership is universal and does not know boundaries from one industry to another. In today’s competitive landscape, organizations are working as teams more often than not, and leaders must have the ability to develop and lead great teams or the organization may be left