Team Leadership Report: Strategies for Team Effectiveness

This report delves into the crucial aspects of team leadership, focusing on the processes and strategies essential for building effective teams within a business environment. It outlines the key steps involved in fostering team cohesion, emphasizing the importance of establishing leadership, building relationships, fostering teamwork, and setting clear ground rules. The report highlights the critical role of a positive internal environment in facilitating team-building activities and the negative impacts of a poor environment. Furthermore, it provides practical methods for eliminating communication barriers, such as using simple language, respecting cultural differences, and developing active listening skills. The report references several academic sources to support its findings, offering a comprehensive overview of team leadership principles and their practical application.

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Abstract
The purpose of below mentioned paper is to enlighten the reader with the information of team
building activities in a business environment. The paper highlights the steps that can help a
business to develop team building in their organization. It also helps in evaluating the important
of internal environment in actively developing team-building activities. It elaborates the ways to
eliminate the communication barrier in the business environment. More details about the paper
are discussed below:

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Contents
Steps to Make Team Cohesive........................................................................................................3
Importance of internal environment Factors in Team Building......................................................4
Ways to Eliminate Communication Barriers...................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Steps to Make Team Cohesive
Team building refers to the process of making a group of people work together to attain effective
productivity from their activities in the environment. The team building activities help the
organization to increase the level of motivation and work together to attain better results in the
environment. Further, below mentioned are the team building steps that the company should use
to make the team cohesive:
Establish Leadership: Under this phase, it is important for the business to establish leadership
activities in the internal environment. The authoritative leadership skills of the manager will help
the employees to trust on the decision making power of the manager and they will follow his
guidelines as well. Leadership quality will help in spreading honesty and transparency in the
organization that will foster trust among the employees as well (Dyer, 2015).
Implement Relationship: The members of the team need to establish a relationship with each
other so as to work together as a team. Under this process, all the members need to analyse the
likes and dislikes of other person and adjust themselves accordingly.
Building Relationship: The manager needs to improve the level of communication and
cooperation among the employees. The management should listen to the details of both the
parties and let the people themselves resolve them while monitoring their actions. This will help
the members in building a bond for the team (Woodcock, 2017).
Foster Teamwork: After establishing a definite relationship with and between the employees, the
manager needs to help the members to work together effectively. They need to encourage the
team to share information among themselves and within the wider organization as well. This will
make the team open for suggestions and brainstorming ideas well (Aga, Noorderhaven, &
Vallejo, 2016).
Set Ground Rules for Team: Once the team is officially built and developed, then the
management should create values and goals for the members to achieve. They should evaluate
individual as well as team performance. This will consolidate all the work of the members and
will provide effectiveness to the business.

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Importance of internal environment Factors in Team Building
Positive internal environment help the organization to initiate team building activities effectively
and with a faster pace as well. Internal environment plays a lead role in influencing the
employees to build team and work with other members to achieve the objective of the company.
If the internal environment of the company is positive then the management will not face
difficulty in develop teams and make the employees to work together in the business. However,
if the environment is not positive and the employees do not have trust on the actions of the
management then they will certainly face difficulty in adjusting with the team and collectively
working with other employees of the company. Negative internal environment will develop
conspiracy, trust issues among employees and lack of communication that will certainly
eliminate the effectiveness of team building activities in the business environment (Settle, &
Shaw, 2018).
Ways to Eliminate Communication Barriers
Below mentioned are the ways that the business should use to eliminate communication barriers
are workplace:
Use of simple language: the employees should try to eliminate the use of slangs in the business
and make use of simple language that is understandable by all. Use of slangs makes it difficult
for the management to interpret actual meaning of the sentence. It also makes it difficult for the
management to make other people understand the phrase. Thus, all the employees should avoid
using slangs in the organization. Secondly, the employees should also try to use simple language
that is understandable by all so as to make all the member understand the meaning of sentences.
Using simple language will make the expatriates understand the rules and guidelines easily
(Misra, & Srivastava, 2018).
Be respectful towards culture: The management should make the employees comfortable with
the cultural differences. They should make the employees welcome people belonging to different
culture so that they can appreciate the values and ideas of other people as well. The employees
should respect the culture and differences present within the team, they should also try to resolve
the barriers by working together on same project.

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Develop listening skills: it should be noted that communication process requires speaking as well
as listening skills. Thus, the management should make the employees develop listening skills as
well as if they will not listen then the management would not be able to understand the issues of
other people in the business (Makris, Ferrante, & Mody, 2018).

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References
Aga, D. A., Noorderhaven, N., & Vallejo, B. (2016). Transformational leadership and project
success: The mediating role of team-building. International Journal of Project
Management, 34(5), 806-818.
Dyer Jr, W. G. (2015). Team building. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 1-2.
Makris, U. E., Ferrante, L. E., & Mody, L. (2018). Leadership lessons: building and nurturing a
high-performing clinical research team. Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society, 66(7), 1258-1261.
Misra, S., & Srivastava, K. B. (2018). Team-building competencies, personal effectiveness and
job satisfaction: The mediating effect of transformational leadership and
technology. Management and Labour Studies, 43(1-2), 109-122.
Settle, Q., & Shaw, E. (2018). Integrating Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Team-
Building Activities into Lessons. NACTA Journal, 62(1), 100-101.
Woodcock, M. (2017). Team development manual. UK: Routledge.