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Leading Peak Performance Teams. Olumide Ajomale FCA. Welcome!. This session is intended for anyone who would like to have an overview of the Leading Peak Performance Teams and the strategies needed to succeed. Before you begin….
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Leading Peak Performance Teams OlumideAjomale FCA
Welcome! • This session is intended for anyone who would like to have an overview of the Leading Peak Performance Teams and the strategies needed to succeed.
Before you begin… • Get the most from this session by answering these questions for yourself before you begin. You will evaluate your growth at the end. • What do I already know about Leading Teams? • What are my learning goals for this session? • How do I think I will be able to apply my learning in future?
Daniel Webster • There are many objects of great value to man which cannot be attained by unconnected individuals, but must be attained if at all, by association.
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Ten Essentials of Teamwork • Common Goals • Leadership • Interaction and involvement of all members • Maintenance of individual self-esteem • Open Communication • Power to make decisions • Attention to process and content • Mutual trust: • Respect for Differences • Constructive conflict resolution
Task and Social Dimensions • Inseparable components of teamwork • Team leaders must work continually with both dimensions, as must the team members • The extent that the team does its tasks well, it will be productive
Task • Dimension that applies to the work that team members are to perform • Outlines the jobs and how the jobs are to be done
Social • Dimension that applies to how team members feel toward one another and their membership on the team • When ideas are developed, plans for working together are also developed
Preserving Dignity • Team is a diverse collection of individuals • Everyone has their own unique character and potential for contribution to the team • Conformation and subjugation is degrading
Dignity • People are more comfortable as part of a group • Leader must be sensitive to the need to preserve individual dignity, to capitalize on differences, and to not try to achieve conformity
What an effective team leader can do • Realize the need for individuality • Teamwork is an ongoing negotiation • Facilitates different views into consensus • Challenges team to meet individual needs • Provide work alone or with team
The L.E.A.D. Model • Lead with a clear purpose • Empower to participate • Aim for consensus • Direct the process
What L.E.A.D. does • Includes key leadership functions: • Setting goals and objectives • Involving people • Reaching consensus • Attention to task and relationships • Ensures 10 essentials are met
Lead with a clear purpose • Use goals as motivation for teams • Set realistic, team-oriented goals • Publish the team’s goals • Have milestones to make sure the team is going in the “right” direction
Empower to participate • Give the team members the power (authority) to follow through and act on the established goals • Team members become unmotivated if they cannot participate in important decisions
Aim for consensus • Consensus? • Help people move toward general agreement • Bring as many ideas, opinions, and conflicts to the table • Help find the approach that best meets the needs of the organization & team members • Responsibility of leader to act on decision or to empower the team to
Direct the process • Use various techniques to help the team complete their work • Be aware of methods and practices that help team members work well together • Direct does not mean to order the team around
Review of Objectives • What does L.E.A.D. stand for? • How are the two dimensions related? • What does preservation of dignity have to do with team leadership? • How can we use the L.E.A.D. model in teamwork on a regular basis?
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”“Aristotle”
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
OlumideAjomale • Chartered Accountant • Capacity Building Consultant • Certified Trainer • NLP Master Practitioner, • Personal Effectiveness Coach • Adult Learning Experience (ALE) practitioner omi2929@gmail.com 0809 878 2929 0812 878 2929 01 878 2929
Acknowledgment This presentation was adapted from Various articles and presentations on Leading Teams