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Is there a leader in you?
August 06, 2007
Are you the one who always stand behind or do you lead from the front? Do you always want to follow or create a trend and then let others trail you? Do you possess the drive that motivates a team or do you always lack in impetus? To know more about essential ingredients of a team and what it takes to be a team leader, read on...
Team groups whose members have common goals and some degree of interdependence in achieving these goals -- are the foundation of contemporary organizations. As a result, the ability to create and lead high-performing teams is essential to every leader's success. All teams -- senior teams, management teams, task forces, steering committees, matrix teams, project teams, and intact work teams -- require their leaders to create team-based structures and processes that support a skilled and motivated workforce in delivering seamless, high-quality goods and serves to their customers.
Having the ability to lead high-performing teams means being skilled in the following competency components:
* Providing team leadership
* Creating a team vision
* Attracting and developing team talent
* Designing a team architecture
* Establishing effective team processes
* Building a team culture
* Assuring quality products and services
Excerpted from: What Type Of Leader Are You? by Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Ph.D. Price: Rs 295. Reprinted by permission of Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited. Ginger Lapid-Bogda is an organization development consultant with more than 30 years of experience. She has worked with companies such as Apple Computer, Whirlpool, Hewlett-Packard, Time Warner among others.
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