Managing People: A Reflection on Team Building Skills and Leadership

This report provides a reflection on team building skills, emphasizing their critical role in effective management and leadership. The author defines an effective team and discusses essential skills like communication, problem-solving, and leadership. The report highlights the importance of these skills in achieving organizational goals. The author reflects on their personal strengths in communication, leadership, and motivation, and identifies areas for improvement, particularly in problem-solving. The conclusion reiterates the significance of team building skills in fostering a productive and goal-oriented team environment, essential for transforming a group into a high-performing unit. The report references key literature on team building and leadership.

Managing People

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Reflection upon Team Building Skills........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Managing people in any business, academic or any general setting is a crucial task to be
performed including huge efforts. Managing people is a phenomena training, motivating and
directing individuals in the right path that is necessary for productive results and goal
achievement (Robertson, 2019). In the assignment a reflection is provided on team building
skills an essential concept of people management. Discussion is provided over number of team
building skills required by a leader and how these skills personally support them in attaining
range of objectives is respective environmental setting.
MAIN BODY
Reflection upon Team Building Skills.
To start of with my team building skill reflection I will first provide my understanding
about a effective team and team building skills. A group of individuals when brought together by
the employer or by academic professors for a specific goal is known as a team. These team turns
into effective one when all team members with separate skills and competencies are working as
one unit for a common objective and integrating their tasks. Every team or group has a leader
who hold the responsibility of developing a team into effective one and attaining all pre-
determined goals and objectives in the respective time period. In order to do so leaders has to
have team building abilities and skills (Feldman, 2018).
Performances of people formed into a team is dependent upon their leaders, guidance
received by them and clarity of aim. Therefore, team building skills plays a vital role in
developing an effective team and the leader's success through their leadership. Team building is
a collective word which defined those number of activities that are used and performed by leader
for enhancing social relations of team member and defining their roles and responsibility along
with rendering clarity of aims and objectives of the group.
Team building exercises are performed with the aim of identifying and resolving
interpersonal of individuals in the group. There are numerous team building skills which are
required by leaders and essential for them to be effective enough in their particular setting and
which are desired by employers in their employees. Few team building skills which are essential
and used most commonly by all leaders are as follows:

 Effective Communication- According to me as a professional every leader necessarily
have to a effective communicator. If you are a team leader and wants to unit your team,
you have to hold strong communication skills. As a leader, some of the feature of you
being a effective leader is clarity, active listener, written and verbal communication,
facilitating group discussion and many more (Bens, 2017).
 Problem Solving- In a team there are interpersonal issues amongst members due to
several factors a leader, you have to solve these problems of individuals. The leader has
to become a mediator between the parties in conflicts and actively listen to them and their
problems and then provide them a solution by bringing them to agreement.
Brainstorming, mediation, conflicts resolution negotiation and problem sensitive are few
characteristics of a leader holding problem solving skills.
 Leadership- Being a team builder it is often requires to play leadership role for the group
as well. The leaders have to hold potential leadership abilities as well, they have provide
clarity of task to members, make decisions on behalf of the whole team, establish goals
and objectives, resolves issues and make people comfortable. A leader needs to have
sufficient decision making skills, talent management skills, consistency in their actions,
aligning team goals with their firms and to establish standards operating procedure.
Team building is a crucial aspect that defines the effectiveness of a leader and their
abilities to change the group of people into an effective team that is working for similar aim by
integrating their efforts. In above segment of the reflection I have reflected upon effective team,
and team building skills (Owen, 2016).
From the identified skills of a effective leader and a team builder I personally make use
of some of the practices in my personal and professional life which makes me a good leader and
continuously develop potentials for becoming better in future as well. Few skills of a team
builder which are required by me as a leader and which I hold are effective communication,
leadership and motivational skills.
Communication plays a vital role in making a leader successful as according to me I have
followers whom I have inspired and they willingly work for me in my guidance. This is due to
my effective communication skills. I always listen to my team members and render them clarity
in lacking areas which are important for them to understand for performing efficiently and render
their best to fulfil team goals. Moreover, I hold efficient leadership skills as well which is

developed in my academic period while I was learning. I a rapid decision maker but do not
neglect my teammates. As a team builder it is my responsibility to gather knowledge about
different prospectives about one task and then chose the best one for the team. Therefore, I was
always make decisions by taking opinions of my team members which allows me to take faster
and more efficient judgement. Along with it I work as motivator with my team units, always
encouraging them and their ideas while making team decision for present or for long term future.
All these three skills that is effective communication, motivation and leadership which
is hold as a leader makes me a team builder. Although I still need to develop more abilities and
competencies for becoming better leader in future as a professional. Such as I lack problem
solving skill which is causing hindrance in my objective of a efficient leader as well as
somewhere becomes an obstacle in my management of team and goal achievement.
CONCLUSION
Above report is a reflection over team building skills and its effectiveness summarising
that team building skills is a crucial but major aspect for changing a team into effective team.
Team building skills allows a leader to manage people of their group in the most effective and
efficient manner along with making them perform with their utmost potentials in order to
contribute in organisational goals by achieving their team objectives in the prescribed time
period.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bens, I., 2017. Facilitating with Ease!: core skills for facilitators, team leaders and members,
managers, consultants, and trainers. John Wiley & Sons.
Feldman, H. R., 2018. Identifying, building, and sustaining your leadership team. Journal of
Professional Nursing. 34(2). pp.87-91.
Owen, S., 2016. Professional learning communities: Building skills, reinvigorating the passion,
and nurturing teacher wellbeing and “flourishing” within significantly innovative
schooling contexts. Educational Review. 68(4). pp.403-419.
Robertson, M. J., 2019. Power and Doctoral Supervision Teams: Developing Team Building
Skills in Collaborative Doctoral Research. Routledge.