Team Leadership Skills: Area Of Strength And Opportunities For Growth

Team Leadership Skills and Empowering Others An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment Class XXXX, Section XXXX, Season XXXXX Having Team Leadership skills in business is best defined as possessing the ability to inspire a group of people working in an organization to realize a vision or result by providing them with the knowledge, information and processes to achieve that goal. Team leadership skills necessarily involve collaboration, cooperation, communication and delegation. These skills have a hierarchy of procession with some coming before, during and after the team embarks on realizing the goal. Before the goal is realized a team leader needs to employ creativity to come up with the vision and to develop the methods. During the pursuit the leader needs to employ communication, cooperation and delegation skills and once the team achieves the goal, the leader can employ reward schemes and listening skills to get feedback (Caroselli, 2000, 13). During the pursuit of a goal, delegation has a central place because an astute leader knows they cannot handle every aspect of the process. Delegation is an action that takes place when the team leader appoints a team member the duty to complete a specific undertaking that is part of the process of pursuing the goal. This appointment is normally unidirectional – the leader assigns the member the task. However, responsibility regarding fulfillment of the task remains with the leader who designated the member to finish it. For instance, if your manager designates an undertaking to you, she is still in charge of ensuring that assignment is completed. In effect, delegation is a form of shared authority (Stark & Flah...