Understand how to lead and manage a team
1.1 Define the key features of effective team performance
Positive leadership is important for effective team performance. Everyone needs to work together and be focused by supporting each other to achieve shared goals. It is very important that each member of the team is clear on their roles and responsibilities. Staff should have respect and understanding for their manager. The manager needs to be aware of the skills and the weaknesses within the team and be able to provide support when necessary. Training and support improves staff performance and develops confidence and team spirit.
1.2 Compare the models used to link individual roles and development with team performance
According to Belbin (1965) Team Roles are a way ascertaining the behavioural strengths and weaknesses of people within a workplace environment. The strong points of this model are that it guarantees that each essential role in a team is carried out and that if the team members are allowed to perform the activities they prefer, they will be more enthused, which will in turn increase team performance. A well-balanced team is less of a risk and will predictably necessitate less management attentiveness. It does however have its limitations in that Belbin's roles represent tasks and functions in the autocratic management of the activities in a team, and are not based upon personality types or thinking preferences; team activities change during a project; the model does not take into account hierarchal relations between people; certain people may not like each other meaning they may not successfully work with each other. Also, when Belbin was doing his foundational research, it mainly focused on upper-management level executives in Britain. these executives would be middle-class white men. This is not to say that the model cannot be applied to other cultures, but the original research focused on a specific demographic
According to Bruce Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development every team goes
Positive leadership is important for effective team performance. Everyone needs to work together and be focused by supporting each other to achieve shared goals. It is very important that each member of the team is clear on their roles and responsibilities. Staff should have respect and understanding for their manager. The manager needs to be aware of the skills and the weaknesses within the team and be able to provide support when necessary. Training and support improves staff performance and develops confidence and team spirit.
1.2 Compare the models used to link individual roles and development with team performance
According to Belbin (1965) Team Roles are a way ascertaining the behavioural strengths and weaknesses of people within a workplace environment. The strong points of this model are that it guarantees that each essential role in a team is carried out and that if the team members are allowed to perform the activities they prefer, they will be more enthused, which will in turn increase team performance. A well-balanced team is less of a risk and will predictably necessitate less management attentiveness. It does however have its limitations in that Belbin's roles represent tasks and functions in the autocratic management of the activities in a team, and are not based upon personality types or thinking preferences; team activities change during a project; the model does not take into account hierarchal relations between people; certain people may not like each other meaning they may not successfully work with each other. Also, when Belbin was doing his foundational research, it mainly focused on upper-management level executives in Britain. these executives would be middle-class white men. This is not to say that the model cannot be applied to other cultures, but the original research focused on a specific demographic
According to Bruce Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development every team goes