Leadership Principles and Team Effectiveness: A Comprehensive Analysis

This essay delves into the multifaceted aspects of leadership, exploring its practical skills and research areas, encompassing team-leading capabilities and organizational guidance. It highlights the value of leadership experience in the current market, noting the potential for higher wages. The essay contrasts work-oriented and result-oriented leadership styles, and it discusses the significance of teamwork versus individual groups, with examples like Formula One teams demonstrating the power of unified goals. It examines the detrimental effects of ineffective teams and provides strategies for conflict resolution, including communication, role clarity, and encouragement. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of communication, leadership styles, and the development of traits like drive, intelligence, and skills to overcome challenges and achieve team success. The paper references several academic sources to support its arguments.

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Leadership can be termed as both practical skill and area of research enveloping ability
of any company or personal to be guided, team-leading capability, and another individual or
whole organization. Leadership experience is very valuable in the current market scenario. It
has been seen that high school leadership experience are paid more as wage than those without it.
The basic sign of a true leader is higher cognitive ability, more motivation and drive and more
self-confidence (Northouse, 2015). It is hard to tell whether this skills they posses arise because
of leadership service or because individual are selected for their preexisting skills. Women as
leader are work oriented as well as relationship oriented whereas Men leader is very much work
and result oriented. Scientist argued that influences of actual leaders in organizational outcomes
are overrated as of the biased attributes of the Leaders (Bolman & Deal 2017). It will be argued
that studies of leadership have introduced theories involving function, behavior, power,
situational interaction, values, charisma, vision and intelligence.
Team Is Different From Group In Every Sense where team is a group of people who
shares a common team purpose and a different number of challenging goals where as a group is a
collection of individual who contribute and coordinate their individual effort. Team member are
mutually committed to each other and toward a common goal. Formula one team is a correct
example of team as different individual with different sets of skills are aiming to win a particular
objective People blessed with creative outlook, energy given and committing to the team have
surpassed other teams (Pentland, 2017). A group maybe or may not be motivated to reach a
single goal say for example a group of people paying together may not have interest to win some
maybe motivated out of sheer pleasure but a team always think unanimously.
Ineffective Team Diminishes Output such as a team in problem will always diminish the
output. A team is put together with different expertise and experience to overcome obstructer and

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create a benchmark, which is expected of them, but team not able to deliver as promised calls for
critical analysis (Hsiung, Luo & Chung, 2014). The goal of evaluating the situation is to getting
the team out of problems. It is important to act and liquidate tasks with the proper outlook as
well as objectives of business of the company. There are different types of ineffectiveness and
each has right set of solution. Different person rely on contrasting views under the influence of
wrong circumstances, such differences quickly escalate to clash. Leader’s ways of handling the
clash determine either team’s advantage or contribution to its demise.
Teamwork A Vital Part of Working Environment and thus organization keeps tracks on
the team and train the manager to lead the team in the efficient manner, example of positive
teamwork. One on one feedback: Feedback range from grammatical error via proofreading,
advice on report formatting, advice on customer handling, efficient, correct and faster way to get
a work done or maybe general feedback. The process is very useful if the employee have the
expertise, knowledge and experience above then others
Few example of rectifying the issues are Building trust with informal games, Intensify
Challenge, Infuse fresh enthusiasm, Dividing role and goal to individual, Setting
performance benchmarks, Allocation of resources and proper utilization, Workshop and
Effective discussions and group decision making
Conflicts at Workplace Are Very Common there is only few offices, where all the
employees get along. Therefore, conflict resolution is a necessary component of the workplace,
and people in leadership position must be skilled to counter conflict, providing resolution using
conflict management techniques.
Some conflicts with resolution are as followed: Individuals with different objectives:
Communication problem arises if two people have different goals, as both will believe to be right

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among them. Motivation and Encouragement are way to powerful tools to help solve this issue
within the team. This will help the team to understand the importance of teamwork (Katz &
Flynn, 2013). Roles not cleared: It is important for the team that each of the team members is
assigned with a task and they understand it properly. Gathering the group to assign the task and
listening to everyone will help improve the situation (Saundry & Wibberley 2014). Breakdown
in communication: Sabotaging each other out of rivalry or any other reason will hamper the
communication within the team. The power of encouragement, praise, and punishing the
employee with the wrong attitude will help keep discipline within the team. Resulting Factor:
Conflict should be avoided for the sake of clash is the best way to pick battles. As per the issue, a
conflict should be resolved in the due course of time. The circumstance or situation if is very
crucial and a lot is at stake than people have to communicate to ease the situation and aim to
close philosophical gaps.
To Conclude it is important for the organization to communicate with is employees and
try to rectify the differences. Leaders are pivotal for effective communication. Leadership can
entrust by different people by different means but it is important to have the respect of the
employee to motivate and drive them to success. Individual differences and lack of trust in the
team can damage and hamper the team goal but will the help of conflict management and
effective communication from the leader can help overcome hindrance. Leadership styles,
personality and other attribute are vital to under what suits best in the role and different situation
calls for different persona and attribute so a leader must be versatile in his/her approach.
Leadership is an integral part of the business and right skill and management is required to stop
communication gap. Group can only converted into team if they have the right mindset and an
unanimous aim to achieve something. However, an ineffective team is same as an aimless group

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so it is necessary to clear the doubts and empower employees to be productive. Drive and
determination traits like energy, initiation, dedication, dominance and assertiveness. Folk having
similar traits works long hours, are very ambitious, quite competitive in nature and to
wholeheartedly pursue their goals. Intelligence, verbal ability and analytical, good judgment and
behavioral flexibility are some of the Cognitive capacity. Individuals possessing such traits are
quick to find solutions of difficult situations, deadlines or quite comfortable to working under
stress, future planner and adapt to changing situations. Leader should posse’s proper skills and
knowledge to help overcome obstacle. A team without proper guidance and objective and a
leader is just an aimless group. Leadership has the power and the substance to overcome a
challenge by molding the scenario in favor of the leader. Competiveness is important within a
team but sometimes can result into conflict, so it is important for the leader to recognize and
resolve issue.

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