Leadership in Business: Strategies for Leading and Managing Teams

This essay discusses leadership styles and their impact on leading teams in a business context. It reflects on experiences of leading a team, emphasizing the importance of encouraging open communication, resolving conflicts, and valuing team members' opinions. The essay contrasts autocratic and ...Read More

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Leadership styles can be regarded as the various forms by which the leaders view
leadership and also perform it, for accomplishing their objectives and goals. The leaders’
styles particularly encompass how they relate themselves with others inside as well as outside
the organization. It also gives an idea of how they view themselves as well as their positions.
To a large extent, the leadership style is also the result of the respective leaders’ success
(Koech and Namusonge 2012). However, while leading a presentation team in high school, I
have learned various things and procedures of how to become a successful leader. I have
learned that while accomplishing a task, it is highly important for the leader to set out a
proper routine and get it done.
On leading the team, I found out that many team members were not able to present
their ideas and concepts openly. Being a leader, it was my responsibility to encourage as well
as motivate them to raise their issues and opinions, without any fear. I listened to each and
every one and gave my own ideas as well. We worked by maintaining peace and harmony.
Whenever, there was a conflict between my team members, I handled it in a very justified
manner. Moreover, the style of the leader defines the success of the overall team. In this
democratic world, an autocratic leader can harm any team to a huge extent. For instance; if a
leader is authoritative towards his/her team members and have a nature of imposing things
over them, without even listening to their opinions, the team members may lose their faith on
him/her (Keskes 2014).
I believe that transformational leaders are the ones who have strong presence of mind,
huge influence over his/her followers and listen to their opinions. Team members highly
depend on their leader for the overall success of the team. Team leaders should have the
ability to influence their subordinates to perform better every day. It is very important to
listen to each others’ opinions and concepts. Valuing each and every member will make them
feel special and involve them towards the collective goals. Democratic and collaborative style

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of leadership is the best according to me, as it emphasizes on equal status and involving
everyone together into the organizational leadership (Yahaya and Ebrahim 2016).
Most of the great leaders have the passion of leading and building an elite team.
Nobody wants to lead a team that is particularly based on moderation and mediocrity. Team
leaders have a negative impact when the performance level of their team members is average.
Therefore, it is considered to be immensely important that the leaders manage their teams
efficiently and effectively. Creating an environment of leadership at all levels is considered to
be a great way of managing teams effectively. An autocratic style of leadership may not be
always as effective as the leaders want it to be (Lian and Tui 2012).
Emergent leaders need to understand their teams well. Imposing ideas or concepts on
the subordinates does not always work. It is highly important to work as a team, share ideas,
opinions and listen to others. Moreover, leadership and management are two different
disciplines. One cannot manage a team to combat; they should be led. A leader must be able
to build trust among his/her followers’ minds. It is important for the leader to make his/her
followers feel safe and secured. In addition to this, a leader should always motivate and
encourage his/her members to raise their issues without any hesitations. These factors help in
generating new ideas as well as concepts (Keskes 2014).
The teams play a major role in shaping the requirements for an effective leadership.
The team members must be cooperative with their leader. The members of the team can assist
their leader by putting the right people at the right place. It is important for the team members
to ensure that each and every one is heading towards the right goal as directed by their leader.
If some members need support and guidance, the talented and dedicated ones should lend
their helping hands towards them (Du et al. 2013). In this way, the team members can shape
themselves as per the requirements of their leader.

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Leaders and his/her team members play a very important role for the success of any
business. Leaders select the members of the team on the basis of their competencies and in-
competencies. Effective leaders provide guidance to their team members and direct them
towards the organizational goals. In addition to this, the core responsibilities of a team and its
members are; building team morale, fostering creativity, promoting values and others
(Choudhary, Akhtar and Zaheer 2013). Therefore, leaders as well as team members should
work hand in hand in order to reach the highest level of organizational success.

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