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Leadership
Leadership is a reciprocal relationship between those who choose to lead
and those who decide to follow
Team leader skills are some of the hardest business skills to master.
Positioned between the demands of management and the workers, team leader
skills must include the ability to juggle the various priorities while
keeping performance high and cost under control.
I would like to give an example on how TL should be.
TL is like a tread and the agents are like a sticks, one end of the tread
should be tied to the group of sticks where should be strong enough to
control over all the group and the other end will be tied to the hands of
management.
TL’s should understand what management requires and the same to be given
as per the requirements.
Team leader skill makes that juggling easier and more effective. In
turn, the team leader has time to manage the job and be proactive instead
of reactive.
Teamwork is the key to accomplishing goals and individuals must use
a variety of skills to manage the conflicts that routinely occur in the
workplace.
"A leader, like an orchestra conductor derives his/her true power from his
ability to make other people powerful." From The Art of Possibility
"He was not afraid of the competition of other ideas …Free of the greatest
vice in a leader; his ego never came between him and his job." Dean
Acheson describing Harry S. Truman
Today's tempo is such that organizations need people at all levels with
the ideas, ethics, energy and courage to arouse, engage and empower people
to make the decisions and take the action towards goals and objectives
when the positional leader is not present. And all within an environment
of change, disappearance of the loyalty factor, conflict and team members
assuming a survivor attitude. The skills and techniques addressed in this
training acknowledges the manager's role of leadership as well as needed
to run the business.
By Sudhakar N.K. |
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