Leadership in Business: Team Cohesion and Productivity Report

This report delves into the crucial aspects of leadership in business, focusing on strategies to build cohesive, effective, and productive teams. It explores leadership techniques such as setting clear goals, encouraging open communication, defining roles, and celebrating successes to foster team cohesion. The report emphasizes the importance of aligning team goals with organizational objectives, providing incentives, and establishing feedback processes to increase work output and departmental productivity. It also addresses the significance of clear communication regarding roles and responsibilities, along with strategies to mitigate the negative impacts of technology in the workplace. The report analyzes a case study scenario, demonstrating the application of these leadership principles in a retail environment and outlines the development of a team performance plan within a sporting association, highlighting the practical application of leadership theories and strategies to enhance team effectiveness.

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TASK 2
1. Explain what leadership techniques and strategies will you use to facilitate to
form a cohesive, effective and productive team.
Cohesiveness within the team is much important not only to increase the productivity of the
teams but also to ensure a successful completion of the goals of the team as well as the
organization as a whole. Therefore, the strategies taken by the team in order to ensure
cohesiveness within the team are,
 Setting clear goals:
The goals taken into consideration by the teams must be challenging, as challenging goals
will include more communication and will seek for more cooperation and participation to be
practiced within the group. Also the goals taken by the teams must be clear to the members,
as vagueness of the goals may arise confusions and miscommunications within the team.
 Asking for Opinions:
The leaders of the team must ask for equal participation from all thee team member and
therefore, must provide the space for each members of the group to indulge into conversation
and share their personal opinions regarding an issue.
 Role Differentiation:
Since it is not possible for the leaders to be present everywhere and to undertake or maintain
all the issues singlehandedly, therefore, the leaders must define the roles of each of the team
members and provide each of the members with a certain amount of responsibilities. The
leaders must ensure that all the members of the re provided with equal amount of
responsibilities (Glatthorn et al., 2018).

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 Establishing a Pattern of Communication:
Success of a team depends upon an effective communication system within the team that will
facilitate the team to account and address all the challenges. Therefore, the leaders must
employ and ensure a proper communication pattern to get established within the team, which
will facilitate each of the team members to indulge into the workings of the team and to keep
their share of opinion.
 Understanding the Conflict Situations:
Being a leader the pivotal role is to understand and foresee the situations of conflict. The
leaders of the teams must be able to understand the situations that can embark upon situations
that will further involve a situation of conflict.
 Celebrating Success:
The leader of a team, must practice celebrating smaller successes of the team members and
must practice appreciating the team members upon gaining smaller successes. This will
increase employee involvement within the team and will also ensure team cohesiveness.
2. How will you encourage and establish among your team a shared understanding
of the team purpose to increase the work output or departmental productivity.
The practice of a shared understandings of the goals and values will effectively increase the
involvement of the team members in the team activities and therefore, the productivity of the
team. To ensure increased productivity within team, leaders can employ the following
strategies.
 Sharing the Goals and Values:
To ensure an increased level of participation the leaders must be clear about the
organizational gaols and the organizational values. Each of the organization, have distinct

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organizational values, and the goals of the organizations are directed as according to these
values. Therefore, the leaders must ensure that all the values are stated to the employees in
order to make them aware of the goals which is pivotal for increased productivity (Day, Gu &
Sammons, 2016).
 Incentives:
The leaders or rather the organization as a whole must practice the culture of providing
incentive to the team members in order to appreciate their efforts. The monetary benefits are
the most successful measure to increase the production of the organizations.
 Feedback Process:
Feedback process within the structure of the organization, is also seen as an effective measure
to ensure increase in the productivity of the team.
 Providing training:
Providing training to the employees is seen as the most effective way to communicate the
goals and the values of the organization and also to increase the productivity of the members
by providing them with the required knowledge for the job role, they are assigned to
(Schroemaker, Krupp & Howland, 2013).
How can you ensure you are fully informed each team member’s work roles,
responsibilities and accountabilities?
Providing the members of the team or the employees of the organization with the proper
knowledge and understanding of the job roles, is one of the most important aspects of the
workings of the organizations, and the responsibility essentially lies upon the leaders of the
teams. Therefore, in order to communicate the role and requirements from the employees, the
leaders must,

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 Provide the members with the knowledge of the goals of the team as well as the
organization.
 Must practice a proper communication pattern.
 Must encourage the members for their effective and active participation.
 Must seek for opinions and suggestions from each of the members and must increase
a team cohesiveness (Crossan et al., 2013).
Why there is a need to link team’s goals to meet organizational goals, plans and
objectives?
The leaders of the organizations must undertake individual team goals as according to the
goals and objectives of the organization as a whole. It is essential as the works of each of the
team will contribute to the goals of the organizations and will further result in appropriation
of the same. The differences in the goals of the team with the goals of the organization a
whole, will not enable the organization to meet its goals (Al-Asfour, & Lettau, 2014).
3. Therefore, in order to ensure, the outcomes, that is to ensure an increased
cohesiveness within and successful communication pattern within the organization, as
per the case scenario, the organizational leaders must,
 Employ an effective pattern of communication within the team as well as within the
organization.
 The leaders of the organization must also be clear about the roles and responsibilities
of the team members and must differentiate the same within the members
accordingly.
 The leaders must also make the employees aware of the organizational goals and
values.

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 Finally, the leaders must make the employee understand how their role and
responsibilities are related to each other and the way failing to account to them in the
correct manner can affect the appropriation of the goals of the organization.
4. Using mobile phones rigorously, within the organizational background can impact
negatively upon the work culture of the organization. It will impact upon the
behaviours of the employees of the same. They will be mire busy in their phones,
which will lead to the lack of understanding of the requirements and also will lead to a
lack of cohesiveness in the workplace.
To deal with a certain situation, leaders can,
 Provide the employees with proper guidelines or code of behaviours to be
maintained within the organization.
 The organization can also practice the system of keeping the phone within the
cupboards, and can use them in very there hours.
If the guidelines to the particular individual does not work, then the person will be
provided with a warning from the management of the organization and if even upon
that the employees do not change the behaviour then the practice of cupboards must
be ensued within the organization.
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