Leadership Strategies: Improving Team Effectiveness and Communication

This essay discusses the importance of teamwork and effective communication in project execution, particularly when facing challenges within a team. It reflects on a personal experience where the author, as a leader, faced difficulties due to communication barriers and team dynamics. The solution involved using written communication to improve information exchange and address team issues. The essay highlights strategies for enhancing team building, such as clear communication, information sharing, and promoting a positive organizational culture. It also emphasizes the role of a leader in motivating teamwork, resolving conflicts, and improving operational processes. Key methods to improve team effectiveness include bettering team communication, promoting recognition and incentives, and improving operating processes. The essay concludes by stressing the importance of conflict resolution and creating win-win outcomes to foster a more effective team environment.

Introduction
Teamwork and effective communication are critical skills that play an important role
in executing team project. It is important to inculcate the interpersonal and team building
skills in the activities so that the effectiveness of the leader as well as the employees can be
improved (Aga, Noorderhaven, and Vallejo, 2016).
Recently, I got an opportunity to work in a team project where my team has not been
performing very well when I was positioned as a leader. Being a good leader, I never imposed
my decisions forcefully by I have involved an effective listening process too. However, it has
become a situation of assertive communication where it was quiet difficult in conversing with
the group members because I was not able to understand the array of linguistic and non-verbal
features. In order to resolve, we have decided to use a written communication method so that
it can become easy to begin with the formation of result-oriented group. Written
communication will help to exchange the information effectively with minimum
communication barriers by reviewing the team dynamics, and relating the information to
coordinate so as to achieve the task behavior (Aga et al., 2016).
As a leader, I engage in the discussions with my team which helped me in resolving
their issues and respond earlier to several messages. The team has to work more effectively as
it has not been achieving very well and achieving below average 40 percent in a team whereas
as per the own interest, I perceived that personal goals are being achieved of around 57
percent. It is seen that team has grudges and no credibility where I will have to remain less
proactive, improve the conflict management, and use more verbal cues (Aga et al., 2016). As
a communication method, the project team uses non-verbal communication it is a method of
receiving the wordless messages. I have used non-verbal messages in the team which are
significant as these convey own feelings. In order to improve the team building, there are
certain steps such as to communicate clear objectives and expectations for the employees,

sharing the information, encouraging the open communication, promoting the organizational
culture, values, ethics, and effectiveness. Some of the other effective ways that can improve
the team effectiveness and improve its productivity by delegating the responsibility according
to the talent concentration, eliminating wasteful activities, hold a stand-up meeting, know the
weakness, strengthens, and give incentives to the subordinates for technical expertise
(Brocherie, Millet, Hauser, Steiner, Rysman, Wehrlin, and Girard, 2015).
A leader plays an important role in motivating and fostering the teamwork at the
grassroots level. Therefore, in identifying the three most important ways through which team
effectiveness can be improved are bettering the team communication become, promoting the
recognition, incentives at the workplace culture, and also improving the operating processes
(Brocherie et al., 2015). Moreover, in order to improve the effectiveness of the team, a leader
has to resolve the conflicts by agreeing on mutually acceptable point to discuss the problem
and state the issues related to the things that can reduce the effectiveness of the problem.
Always generate a vision to achieve an win-win outcome and develop an agreement, which
will work for all (Brocherie et al., 2015).

References
Aga, D. A., Noorderhaven, N., & Vallejo, B. (2016). Transformational leadership and project
success: The mediating role of team-building. International Journal of Project
Management, 34(5), 806-818.
Brocherie, F., Millet, G. P., Hauser, A., Steiner, T., Rysman, J., Wehrlin, J. P., & Girard, O.
(2015). Live high-train low and high” hypoxic training improves team-sport
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