Leadership Report: Strategies for Developing Your Team at Strayer

This report examines the crucial process of team development within an organization, emphasizing the manager's role in building diverse teams and fostering positive group dynamics. It delves into strategies for creating diverse teams by incorporating individuals with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and strengths. The report highlights methods to enhance team dynamics, impacting employee behavior through open communication, team culture, and control systems. Furthermore, it explores two management techniques: communicating the company's vision and setting effective goals to align team behaviors with the company's mission, thereby promoting organizational commitment and performance. The report concludes by underscoring the significance of these practices for achieving organizational success and fostering a collaborative work environment.

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Developing Your Team
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Introduction
Team development is the process of making the groups for the completion of the
specific tasks and also making the group motivated and inspired to achieve the specific business
goal. It seeks to make the group as per the strengths of the members which can lead to effective
team support into the organization (Lacerenza, Marlow, Tannenbaum, & Salas, 2018). Here, the
paper has discussed the actions taken by the manager for developing the diverse team and the
identification of different ways a manager will undertake to make an effective team and the
specific employee behavior.
Creating a Diverse Team with Different Strengths
Diverse team of employees are crucial for the organization in which manager makes the
diverse team of the employee with different strengths. The manager can create the diverse team
by including the people with the different generations, age, religion and culture. This can be
possible through the revamping of the recruitment strategy which specifically can lead to the
employment of the diverse workforce. This will bring the new perspectives and the ideas which
can lead to the effective team building. This is also related with the personality diversity in
which the manager can make diversity awareness and spreading of the cultural differences
(Baldelomar, 2016). For example, when the manager wants to work in a specific project which
requires the perception of the people then, the manager can celebrate the different cultural
differences and create the team of the employees who are from the different cultural differences
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and are of different ages which will bring different perspectives and the ideas which can be
helpful in that specific situation.
Further, diverse team can be developed through the specifc strengths which makes the
effective team. Moreover, the manager will require the strengths such as good communication,
good support for each other into the team. Besides the diverse team should be highly attentive to
the issues and problems (Srikanth, Harvey, & Peterson, 2016). The diverse team should be based
upon the unique skills of the employees on the basis of which the particular job role is assigned.
This can ultimately bring creativity into the organization through bringing of broad range of
ideas.
Methods to Improve Team Dynamics and Employee Behaviors
Team dynamics can be defined as the influence of psychological forces on the
employee’s behaviors within the workplace. There is huge importance of positive team dynamics
within the organization in which employees will feel valued and also motivated to perform better
into the organization (Huynh, Duong, Phan, Do, & Do, 2019). The manager will make of several
methods of improving the team dynamics which can influence the employee’s behavior (Deering
, 2015). The manager will enhance the team work by building the team culture which can lead to
the well-being of the employees and creating an enthusiasm towards the work. Besides, manager
will make use of open communication in which the manager will effectively support their
employees and develop group thinking.
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The manager will block the specific behaviours such as aggressiveness and the avoidance
of the joking behavior which can lead to the better team work. It is important for the manager to
act as a motivational leader of the group in which manager will provide the guidance and
support to the team members and make efforts for the controlling the behavior of the memners
and persuading them in order to act in a certain way (Creasy & Carnes, 2017). Not only the
building of the team culture, the manager will take steps through the control systems which can
be possible through the setting up of the procedures and rules which can be helpful in the
controlling of the negative behavior within the workplace. This can be possible through the
group dynamics in which the manager will not only make the collaboration with the team
members but also make the policie which can regulate the behaviors of the employees for
advocating the open discussion.
Two Management Techniques to Align Team Behaviors to the Company Mission
A company’s mission is related with the objective of the company that it strives to
achieve and make the company profitable. Mission provides the future courses of actions and
making a purpose of work which can make the entire organizational committed towards the
work. The managemengt technique which can be used by the manger for the aligning of the
employee behaviors with the company’s mission is the communication of the company’s vision
and strategy with the employees in order to get the direction of the work and determine their
individual contribution within the company (Chai, Hwang, & Joo, 2017). Communication
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impacts the alignment as the managers will make use of effective open communication which
can enhance the team behaviors towards the mission of the company.
As a leader, the manager will adopt the second technique of effective goal setting in
which the leader will undertake the actions for the setting of company’s priorities with the team
behaviors (Conway, 2020). The leader will make the employees understand the mission and
vision in order to determine the responsibilities and the accountabilities of the employees
towards the company. This will set the expectations of the employees and the purpose of their
specific job role within the entire organization which can certainly make them motivated and
perform better into the organization. The manager take take the individual team meetings which
will enahce their understanding of company’s vision and often leading to well-informed
workplace.
Conclusion
To conclude, it can be said that team development is a crucial process for the company
which the manager makes. Also, this can be related with diverse workforce which can lead to the
bringing of new perspective and can often lead to building of group dyamics which can
strengthen the relationship between the team members. Here, the paper has discussed the
manager’s role in the building of diverse team and maintenance of positive group dynamics.
Also, the paper has elaborated the management techniques for aligning the team behaviours with
the company’s mission.
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