Leadership Teamwork: Strategies for Effective Collaboration

This essay delves into the crucial relationship between leadership and teamwork, emphasizing the role of a leader in guiding and motivating teams towards achieving common goals. It highlights the importance of team empowerment, where leaders delegate authority and foster trust to increase team members' confidence and engagement. The essay explores various aspects of teamwork, including self-directed teamwork, network teams, and organizational teamwork, stressing the significance of effective communication, decision-making, and a calm leadership approach during crises. The essay concludes by underscoring the factors that define a good team and the frameworks used to analyze them, providing a comprehensive overview of how leadership and teamwork intertwine to drive organizational success.

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Leadership teamwork
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Teamwork is usually a collective practice. Teamwork is generally thought to be a
highly democratic entities where one single person does not work. Each and every member of
the team works to achieve the goals and the targets. However to organize the works of the
team and to take the entire team towards the common goal it should be guided by a leader.
The teams requires a strong leader so that the team can achieve their targets effortlessly
(Shockley-Zalabak 2014).
The team leader can keep the team accountable. In a team, the leader who leads the
team takes the full responsibility of the team by taking care of the results of the team. A
leader has to ensure many aspects that are there on line, he or she is motivated most of the
time. It helps the team to remain motivated which keeps the team accountable for their work
(Ford et al. 2016).Teamwork Promotes a Wider Sense of Ownership
I feel that the team lead empowers the members of the team. It is not only about
concentrating and holding the powers. It is also about giving away the powers to the team
members. The team leaders are responsible for assigning tasks to the team. It is important for
a team member to understand the skill of the members of the team and trust the team
members. It is through trust that the leaders empower the teams in order to carry out assigned
tasks in the way that they see fit. The trust of the team leaders on their team members
increases the confidence of the team members and this makes them to do their work in a more
confident manner. It increase the engagement of the team members towards their work. This
increases the excitement of the team members about any project and it enables the team
members to work diligently. The leaders must empower the members by easing up the reins
of the team members (Chuang, Jackson and Jiang 2016). It encourages the factor of Healthy
Risk-Taking

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According to my knowledge the team leaders simplify the process of decision-making
in the team. The team leaders help the team members to take the decisions carefully. The
teams who does not have an efficient leader might find it difficult to take tuff decisions while
the members are unable to come to consensus. This enables the team to move their projects
further. A responsible leader ensures that all the team members understands the project goal.
The team leader assists the team members in their works and contributes to achieve the
expected goal. In case a team member finds any difficulty in doing the work it is the
responsibility of the team leader to assist him in the work. The most important aspect that the
team leader must maintain is he or she should have a calm mind so that he does not get hyper
in the situation of crisis when the team leader needs to stay strong (Beverborg, Sleegers and
van Veen 2015).
While concluding this can be said that it takes immense effort to build a good team.
The leader must therefore understand the factors that define a good team, he should
understand the characteristics that define a good team and should analyze the frameworks
that are used to define good team.
Self directed teamwork
In the contemporary business world, teamwork plays a key role for effective
functioning. I think that the key factors in teamwork include trust, communication and
leadership. The language used in the article is well articulated and has been explained in good
form. This particular term carries different kinds of meanings; however, the central idea is to
make individuals work together for attaining a common objective. I felt that the matter has
been divided into each paragraph and it has been presented in an organized way. From the
writing of the article, it is clear that this process enables an individual to become motivated
for achieving the objectives. I have experienced that a team consisting of motivated

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individuals gives rise to an efficient and enthusiastic work environment and the outcome is
experienced in the form of higher productivity (Lantz Friedrich, Sjöberg and Friedrich 2016).
The beginning of the writing is organized. The introductory paragraph is attractive and it is
grammatically correct.
Network teams
This area concentrates on the fact that teamwork is always considered as a combined
effort to attain a mutual objective. In that respect, network teams are formed in the current
century, which are visionary model of showing the accuracy of teamwork in attaining the
common goal. I felt that the use of ornamental language justifies the fact that the writer have
a good knowledge of the concept. Further writing has included the fact that the concept of
virtual teams are the recent modification in the organizational structure (Mencl and Lester
2014). It does not mean that the traditional forms of teamwork will be removed, however,
they will be involved in a new potential. According to me, the joining of the sentence has
been done in a clear and organized way. Conjunctions have been used in the perfect way and
used in those areas where it is required. A good use of ornamental language has been done in
this paragraph. It makes the background of teamwork and leadership clear.
Organizational teamwork
Organizational teamwork refers to achieving a common goal by a group of people
among the large and small business activities. I think that the author has made use of refined
language to explain the concept. The author has made a clear point that, a leader of the
organization is required to be open in his thoughts of working with a diverse group of
different cultural background. The sentences are well articulated and the proper use of
grammar has been made in this context. With the use of good language, the author is
successful in delivering the idea that an organizational teamwork will be effectively

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implemented when the weaknesses will be minimized and the strengths highlighted.
Professional communication skills bear a positive impact in such cases of diverse teamwork
in organizations (Scott and Queen’s 2017). I think that the theme has displayed a good
knowledge. The content explains the concept of teamwork and leadership in an extremely
refined way. The concluding paragraph summarizes the entire concept in a logical way. In
suggestion, the paragraph can be written in bullet points that would make it look neat.

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