Managing Organizations and Leading People

This article discusses managing organizations and leading people based on DiSC profile. It covers strengths, challenges, and steps to maximize team effectiveness. The article also includes references. Suitable for students studying management courses.

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Managing Organizations and Leading People
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1. Given my DiSC profile, I believe my strengths toward the team are:
Considering the fact that My DiSC style is iD, I have the capability to draw the attention of
my employees whom I manage by my self-assured attitude. With the help of my persuasive
attitude, I will be able to persuade the employees to follow my vision. This, in turn, will
enable me to lead the employees to the final goal and create a forward momentum.Being
highly optimistic, I am ready to face any risk or unexpected outcomes. Besides that, since I
am always ready to seek new opportunities even if needs me to change directions, I am able
to assess and dismiss obstacle quickly. Since I enjoy influence, I try my best to make a
favorable impression. This nature of mine motivates me to contribute wholeheartedly to the
organization I am working. Along with that, since I value compliments, I am able to motivate
the employees by complementing their efforts. For this, while discussing the performance of
the employees in the meeting, I chiefly put emphasis on the positive aspects of their
performance. Considering the fact that I like to build a large network by knowing people, I
will be able to embrace opportunities for brainstorming and friendly banter. Being highly
enthusiastic, I am capable of inspiring my team so that they can develop new and effective
strategic ideas that bear the potential to make the biggest immediate impact. Finally, being an
optimistic individual, I chiefly focus on the positive aspects of a conflict in the organization.
If the conflict is trivial or imposes very less impact on the organization, I generally follow the
‘Avoiding' conflict style.
2. Given my DiSC profile, I believe some challenges I will face are:
My over-optimism that may involve setting deadline or goals that are unrealistic, can be a
challenge for me as well as or my team. The unrealistic deadline may result in pressurizing

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the employees under me and as a result, they may get demotivated. Another way my over-
optimism can be a challenge for me is when I take up multiple projects at a time and as a
result, both I and my team face trouble to complete the project within the stipulated amount
of time. My tendency to make friends often act as a challenge since I tend to share my
personal information with new individuals. This not only adds potential risk to my personal
life but also has the potentiality to hamper my professional life as well. Although, I avoid and
show positive outlook in case of trivial conflict, my tendency to show strong emotional
outburst while managing a severe conflict often makes the employees involved in the conflict
feel uncomfortable. Considering the fact that my DiSC style is iD, I have huge tendency to
get stressed out in situations where a project has become stalled or perceive time has been
wasted. This frustration of mine imposes a negative impact on me as well as my team's
performance.
3. Given my DiSC profile, I believe that my team should take the following steps to
maximize the effectiveness of our team.
The first step that should be taken by each team member to enhance the effectiveness of our
team is to have a clear understanding of the objective and purpose of the project. Each team
member should ensure that they are keeping a correct balance between the non-project and
project works. Since my DiSC style is iD, I will encourage my team to enhance their
effectiveness so that our team can complete the project within th stipulated time period. In
order to enhance the effectiveness, each employee should work to timescales as well as
within the cost constraints of the company. The team members must report their progress
against plans and produce the deliverables to the agreed specification. In order to complete
the projects assigned to the team within a definite amount of time, I will encourage each

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member of the team to utilize their talents (Somech and Drach-Zahavy 2013). In order to
keep the team members motivated, I will encourage them my emphasizing more on their
positive aspects and contribution to the team. This in turn will make them feel valued and
will enhance their loyalty as well as productivity. Each and every employee must have
effective and friendly communication with each other through official intranet and online
collaboration tool. Effective communication among the team members not only enhances
their ability to work as a team but also reduces the chances of conflict (Bradley et al. 2012).

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References:
Bradley, B.H., Postlethwaite, B.E., Klotz, A.C., Hamdani, M.R. and Brown, K.G., 2012. Reaping
the benefits of task conflict in teams: The critical role of team psychological safety
climate. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97(1), pp.151.
Somech, A. and Drach-Zahavy, A., 2013. Translating team creativity to innovation
implementation: The role of team composition and climate for innovation. Journal of
management, 39(3), pp.684-708.