Performance Management Analysis: Team Leadership Skills Evaluation

The assignment examines the essential traits of a successful team leader, emphasizing effective communication, time management, and leadership abilities as pivotal skills. It discusses how these competencies lead to enhanced employee motivation and fulfillment of organizational goals. The document assesses the author's performance on coordinating team activities, managing time effectively amidst various responsibilities, and demonstrating suitable leadership styles that inspire change and articulate vision. It highlights the importance of contextual behavior like communication and leadership while recognizing task-oriented aspects such as time management. Suggesting improvements in metrics by incorporating helpfulness and attendance underscores a comprehensive approach to performance evaluation. The reference materials include works by Aguinis, Shields et al., and Van Dooren et al., providing theoretical frameworks for understanding performance management.

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Performance Management
Name of student:
Name of university:
Author note:

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A team leader is required to demonstrate a set of skills to ensure maximal utilisation
of resources and accomplishment of organisational goals. The three most significant skills
and behaviours that a team leader is to demonstrate are communication, time management,
leadership ability. My performance as a team leader in the organisation I have been working
had been analysed in relation to these three behaviours as some of the notable performance
management metrics. The paper would discuss the effectiveness of the metrices that were
employed for understanding my performance. Further, recommendations have been placed
regarding how the metrices can be improved.
The most important trait that a team leader must have is effective communication
skills. Leaders are to communicate effectively and in a clear manner, both verbally an in
written form. Communication leads to employee motivation and fulfilment of organisational
goals (Aguinis, 2013). Such skills allow leaders to present the exact expectations that the
organisation has from the team members. Effective communication skills allow the team
members to understand the input that is expected from them by the team leader. I had been
assessed for my ability to coordinate and direct the comprehensive set of activities
undertaken by my team members, and my ability to motivate team members through
communication.
Since leaders have a wide range of responsibilities at a time, they must exhibit proper
time management skills. As a team leader, one must ensure that time is managed
appropriately to complete all tasks within the set deadline (Van Dooren et al., 2015). I have
been adjudged on the basis of my time management skills that looked into my ability to
manage the team members, look for new opportunities and juggle delegated tasks
simultaneously. The rationale behind this is that time management is effective in reducing
organisational costs for training and promoting enhanced team training. Further, adequate
working processes can be fulfilled.

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Lastly, leadership ability lies at the core of the set of skills deemed fit by a team
leader, and it is to be mentioned in here that only a suitable leadership style is capable of
making a positive impact on the team members. Leadership has been perceived as the art of
bringing about a change in a focused and expected manner (Shields et al., 2015). Leaders are
to inspire a vision of the long term future of the organisation. Motivating and inspiring people
is another aspect that leaders have to fulfil. The aim is to manage the delivery of the vision
for promoting the growth of the organisation. I have been assessed on the leadership style that
I demonstrated and how I articulated the vision of the organisation to the team members.
While time management was task behaviour, leadership skill and communication skill
were contextual behaviour. Given a chance, I would have improved the metrics by adding the
elements of helpfulness and attendance. As opined by Aguinis (2013) helpfulness is essential
for fostering a strong sense of teamwork that allows the team to perform better in difficult
situations. I have taken all opportunity to guide and help my followers so that the designated
tasks could be completed on time, allowing an organisational profit. Further, attendance of a
team leader is a crucial aspect for the performance of the whole team as poor attendance of
the team leader leads to lack of motivation of the team members. When thee two metrices are
added in performance measurement, the process is more rigorous.

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References
Aguinis, H. (2013). Chapter 4. Performance management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Prentice Hall.
Aguinis, H. (2013). Chapter 5. Performance management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Prentice Hall.
Shields, J., Brown, M., Kaine, S., Dolle-Samuel, C., North-Samardzic, A., McLean, P., ... &
Plimmer, G. (2015). Managing Employee Performance & Reward: Concepts,
Practices, Strategies. Cambridge University Press.
Van Dooren, W., Bouckaert, G., & Halligan, J. (2015). Performance management in the
public sector. Routledge.