Effective Leadership in Project Launch

This assignment explores the crucial role of effective leadership in successfully launching a project. It delves into various leadership styles, emphasizing the importance of transformational leadership for fostering communication, collaboration, and motivation among team members. The assignment also examines specific tools and strategies that project managers can utilize to address challenges, resolve conflicts, and ensure smooth project execution. Furthermore, it outlines steps taken by project managers to identify potential issues, provide training to enhance team performance, and ultimately achieve organizational goals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Leadership style required during initial period of project launch....................................................2
Leadership tool used by the project manager to overcome challenges...........................................3
Powered used by team leader to provide motivation.......................................................................3
Reason for selecting a particular leadership approach....................................................................5
Steps taken by project manager to resolve project issues................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Reference.........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The success rate of a project is dependent upon the leadership skill shown by the
management of an organization. More importantly during the period of project launch, it is
essential for the team manager to have effective leadership skill that will help to identify the
proper requirement of the team depending upon any particular situation. In the given context, the
current report into highlight upon the particular style of leadership that is needed within an
organization during the time of project launch. The report also aims to highlight upon the tools
used for the project manager in order to deal with the challenge during the initial period.
Leadership style required during initial period of project launch
The success rate of the project is entirely dependent upon the style of leadership that is
being provided during the initial period. According to Kerzner (2017), it is essential for an
organization to select the kind of leadership depending upon the situation with in the workplace
environment that is aimed to improve the level of motivation. The lack of coordination among
the team member is one of the basics challenges that are encountered during the initial period.
Aga et al., (2016), have mentioned about the importance of transformational leadership that can
be applied by an organization in the initial period of project launch. This can help to bring about
change within the business environment and motivate the workers to perform according to the
mission of the team.
It is also essential to mention that during the initial period it is essential to deal with the
change the working nature of the workers, which will help them to build strong coordination
within the team members.

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Leadership tool used by the project manager to overcome challenges
It is often believe that one of the essential skills to display effective leadership is to have
effective communication tool to co-ordinate the work between the team members. This is also
believed to be one of the crucial aspects of the transformational leaders, which will aim to bring
about motivation and organizational change within the workplace of the team members.
Communication tool is also effective in establishing long term official healthy relationship with
all the team members that is also believed to provide motivation during the initial period.
Workplace environmental safety tool is also an essential part of the leadership skill,
which is also essential to improve upon the initial confidence level of the team members. This
can motivate the workers to take new challenges and risk that is essential during the initial period
of project (Jiang 2014). The additional tool of assessment is also necessary which will be
implemented by the team manager to assess the exact strengths and weaknesses of every team
members.
Powered used by team leader to provide motivation
There are five kinds of power that are practiced by the team leaders
 Reward power: This is one of the essential components that are believed to provide
motivation among the team members. With the help of appreciation, it is possible to
boost the confidence level of employees. With High level of confidence and motivation,
it is possible for every team to improve the chance of project success.
 Legitimate Power: During the initial period, it is the official duty and responsibility of
the project manager to provide a particular team direction for every individual member.

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This is particularly important due to the fact that it helps the project manager to assign
definite task depending upon the potential of individual team members. As every member
is able to work according to their potential, it is possible to improve upon the chance of
success of the project mission.
 Expert power: This power is practiced by the team leaders depending upon the level of
expertise that is usually gained through past experience. It is important for the team
leader to have expertise at the perfect field. That will help them to provide with the
perfect team guidance. It will also be possible for the team leader to provide valuable
training skills to the team members during the initial period of project launch. Proper
knowledge from the part of the team leader is also essential for them to gain respect from
junior team members. This is needed in developing long term official relationship with all
team members.
 Referent Power: During the initial phase, it is necessary for the team leader to ensure
that they are properly able to gain the trust level of the team members. This will help
them to share all type of concern encountered within the workplace. This type of power
helps to motivate the employee, as they are able to rely upon the team leaders for all
types of issues and challenges within the workplace. As the team member is able to
establish strong official Bond with the team leader it improves upon the chance of
success of organizational project goal (Aga et al., 2016).
 Punishment Power: This is the final power that is practiced by the team leader that is
aimed to provide penalty for the team members, who are deliberately compromising up
on the workplace environment by implementing unethical work practice.

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Reason for selecting a particular leadership approach
As mentioned in the previous section a transformational leadership is one of the effective
ways to improve upon the communication and coordination within the team members. During
the initial period of project launch there is always an issue due to accepting change that can de-
motivate upon the workers.
Transformational leadership and use of effective communication tool, it is possible to
improve upon the interpersonal skills of every team members. It is also possible to regularly
monitor the activities of every team members. This can allow the team manager to properly
ensure that the environment of workplace is not compromised due to unethical work practice
(Clarke, 2013).
Steps taken by project manager to resolve project issues
It is highly recommended for the team manager to conduct regular meeting with every
team members before the period of project launch. It is also essential for the team manager to
encourage the members to come up with the issues and challenges that they are expecting during
the project phase. The process of identifying weak team members is also essential during the
early period. With the help of proper and special Training, it is possible for them to improve
upon the working capability for weak performers (Larson and Gray, 2013).

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Conclusion
In conclusion, it can be said that with the help of transformation of style of leadership it is
possible to focus up on all the issues encountered by a team leader during initial period of project
launch. The leader needs to use effective communication tool and exercise various power that
can help them to motivate and thereby boost up the chance of success among the team members
and organizational goal.

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Reference
Aga, D.A., Noorderhaven, N. & Vallejo, B., (2016). Transformational leadership and project
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Clarke, S. (2013). Safety leadership: A meta‐analytic review of transformational and
transactional leadership styles as antecedents of safety behaviours. Journal of
Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 86(1), 22-49.
Jiang, J., (2014). The study of the relationship between leadership style and project success.
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Kerzner, H., (2017). Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring
and monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Larson, E.W.& Gray, C., (2013). Project Management: The Managerial Process with MS
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