...2015 SUBJECT: New Team Leadership CC: SUMMARY: In order to move forward into the new competitive segment of the market, our company is creating a new department. The new department consists of different teams, one of which has been assigned to me. We will need strict regulations, need for specialized knowledge and a leadership plan to assure the success of our team. The approach to lead this team will be a combination of leadership views. We will use the transactional view to motivate team members to work to meet our goals by recognizing productivity along the way, and we will use the transformational view to stimulate and inspire team members to achieve such goals with excellence. Our plan will allow focus on individual performances and at the same time, it will focus on productivity. The team assigned consists of experienced professionals, with a variety of personalities and backgrounds. It’s critical to have an approach to lead that optimizes the team productivity and performance. The implementation of this approach through a plan that considers the team members personalities, experience and backgrounds will assure that this team will be a strong contributor to this new department. TEAM LEADERSHIP AND EVALUATIONS As this team is launched it’s critical that each member has a clear understanding of the organization’s goals, purpose and vision for the entire company as well as the expectations of the organization and management for the team. We’ll introduce the...
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...attaining a goal (Robbins & Judge, 2012). As the business world becomes increasingly more diverse, it is important that managers develop ways to handle the variety of motivations they will encounter in the work day. There are many approaches to motivating employees and many ways for employees to accept it. Motivation is the crucial element in setting and attaining goals. Applying the DiSC assessments helps managers deal with their role as a motivator and developer of talent for their team or group of subordinates. As Facilities and Environmental Health & Safety Director, William Maloney is responsible for equipment uptime, maintaining manufacturing capability/continuance, space allocation, employee environment/satisfaction, site cleanliness/overall appearance, employee safety, leases, making sure space and all required utilities are available when needed, and security officers on a daily basis for Spectra Physics Lasers (a Division of Newport Corporation). William influences his employees and team by being straightforward and truthful, demonstrating integrity and fairness, creating the expectation of honesty, balancing employee needs with company expectations, giving support when needed, allowing them to be comfortable in their field while expecting a reach to find improvement, and creating an environment with the acceptance of failure with the understanding that long lasting corrective action will be taken. Employees are encouraged to respond quickly to requests and issues...
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...Jackson DATE: February 26, 2015 SUBJECT: Leadership Approach Memo Recently the company made a decision to add a new department. In accordance with the business strategic plan to move into a new market segment, I have been appointed as manager over the new department and will be leading the department’s team with the tasks of meeting the objectives and expectations of the company. I, Tania Malveaux, along with Dawn Foster, Sonya Harriest, Wanda Lawson, and Iris Salas will work as a team to accomplish the goals assigned to our department. Because the company is venturing in to a completely new platform, our team will need to carefully and effectively evaluate all areas so that all objectives can be achieved. As department manager, I will develop a control process to measure the actual performance of my team members and a leadership approach. I have arranged a leadership plan to evaluate my team members, including myself based on a few measurable criteria. The leadership style we will use is a democratic style. An evaluation of the current situation in regards to the culture, urgency, and other factors will be included in this memo. I will also include some theories, guidelines, and best practices. My leadership plan consists of weekly brainstorming sessions to develop and critique new ideas. Two team members will be teaming up to go out and do some benchmarking. I will use personal observations and written reports as control processes to measure performance. We will...
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...Positive Influence Plan LDR/531: Organizational Leadership November 7, 2011 Positive Influence Plan Many elements formulate a team that can perform effectively together, stay on-topic, focus on the end-goal, and have the best results. The positive attitudes, emotions, and personalities along with the personal values of the individuals can increase the team’s satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The creation of a plan that has a positive influence on the team will be the cohesive that keeps the team together and assist them to rise above the trivial minutiae. This paper will show that business plan and how the plan will increase the team’s morale, contentment, and production. This paper will also show the specific differences in those elements and how these differences will have a positive influence on the team. Team Collaboration The collaboration of several diverse individuals as a team, especially in the business setting, and achieving the best results can often be challenging and taxing. The implementation of a positive influence plan, especially for teams that will be together for a long period, is beneficial, judicious, and wise. The plan will help produce satisfaction, high performance, and motivation for the team. The plan can help address the specific differences and how to manage those differences without taking away the advantages of the diversity. Each individual on the team brings strengths and weaknesses. If the management has this understanding...
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...Motivation Plan Danny Williams July 31, 2014 LDR 531 ARUN IYENGAR Motivation must occur to maximize team efficiency and productivity within a work environment. Motivation can come in many ways; however it is solely reliant on the personality of the individual the person is trying to motivate. Applying the DiSC assessments help manager in his or her responsibilities in the development and motivation of a team or group. As a second-level supervisor it is Lieutenant Sneed’s responsible to oversee and direct the department’s day-to-day activities as security officer at the International Monetary Fund. He believes that valuing each of the company’s employee’s assessments will help management in creating a motivational plan structured in meeting the various personality types within the work environment. He will design the type of organization the plan using supply chain management. The motivation plan will consist of the evaluation of Brandon Sheakley-Ward, Alyssa Craven, Efrain Vazquez and Danny Williams DiSC assessments results. From an assessment of team C’s DiSC assessments results, the team consist of one in interactive style, two steadiness styles and dominance style. The company’s motivational plan will vision these personality types to develop a plan that identifies and accounts for each individual style for in the company’s work environment. The lieutenant’s plan is to basically use the team’s...
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...Team Leadership MGT 521 Trella Price 8/7/2014 Jeremy Whaley Team Leadership One of manager’s main characteristics of successfully managing people is achieving the ability to join individuals with various personalities together and forming him and her in to a team of hardworking individuals. As a part of the company’s new strategic plan management is adding a new department to enter a particular market segment. To successful manage the new market division and efficiently accomplish organizational goals, a successful leader must develop a leadership approach for each team member based on the theories of leadership and each member’s individual personalities. As a new manager, this paper will consist of a strategic plan that will lead the team in meeting organizational goals and expectations successfully as a team as well as evaluating each team member, including management. The paper will also assess the position in regard to urgency and culture, and determine the leadership approaches, based on the team, and the situation as well as highlight the principle applied from various leadership theories. Evaluating Personality Traits The first step in the plan is to analyzing each team member’s, including myself, on the 16-Type Personality test. The 16 personality types described with Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI). Extroversion verses Introversion, Sensing verses Intuition, Thinking verses Feeling, and Perceiving verses...
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...characteristic that makes them stand out to the organization. My organization has assigned my team a one year project that will change the organization. In order to be successful over the course of the year a clearly defined plan will be developed and carried out that addresses differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities and values as well as increasing the teams motivation, satisfaction and performance. In any team environment success is contingent on the motivation, satisfaction and performance of the team. Each of these facets requires the other to be successful. First, in order to motivate the leader should review Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which incorporates the elements of an overall theory of motivation (Robbins & Judge, 2011). This focuses around five specific elements, physiological needs, safety needs, love needs, esteem needs and the need for self-actualization. As long as everyone on the team can relate to each element the motivation to make the project a success will be achieved. The satisfaction is achieved by the progress a motivated team makes towards the completion of the project. If the project is broken down to phases a sense of satisfaction is easily achieved every time a phase is reached. The team leader will decide the rewards, but should solicit reward suggestions from the team themselves. This ensures that the rewards are truly wanted by the team versus unwanted rewards which can have little to no motivational appeal to win. Lastly, the...
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...Positive Influence Plan LDR/531 Positive Influence Plan Different personalities of team members influence team dynamics and performance. Varying levels of motivation can change team objectives, and work satisfaction can translate in how the team successfully or unsuccessfully accomplishes the intended purpose. A working knowledge of how these factors can influence a team’s performance is an immense asset for managers and team leaders to understand. This plan of positive influence emphasizes the prospect of increasing team performance by means of identifying how these factors are associated with individual personal attitudes, emotions, and values. This plan will summarize the way we plan to use these influences and provides conclusions related to positive influence in team performance. Planning to increase a team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance requires an understanding of how motivation drives team performance. When working on extended projects this becomes even more important as the team progress through the different phases of project completion. When individual team members are not satisfied with his or her job they are usually not comfortable with the team concept. Using the attitudes, emotions, values, and personalities of employees to motivate their team performance creates...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Daniel E Fulgencio Mota University of Phoenix LDR/531 Organizational Leadership March 28, 2013 Prof. Miguel A Rodriguez, PhD Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Business model has change dramatically lately. These days are more common for the organizations to use team work or small subunits, also known as department or section formed specifically to perform specific task for achieving different goals in the company. This document proposes will cover several topics concerning to the design of an effective plan to increase team motivation, satisfaction and performance. How the different attitudes, emotions and, personalities may affect the good performance of group and the tools managers can use to alleviate this situations. Designing and effective Team Before defining a strategy to form and effective team it is important to know fundamentals aspects about team or groups. There are two types of groups formal and informal. This document focused on formal groups. Formal groups are those defined by organizations with the purpose of assigning task to the members of the team for achieving specifics goals. Other important aspect on forming and managing effective teams is the role a leader has for ensuring success of the team. Leaders may improve team performance by influencing and motivating each member of the group. Team performance is strongly related to the level of commitment and motivation members have to achieve...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence University of Phoenix LDR 531 November 22, 2010 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The Learning Team has been assigned a large project. A plan will be created that may be applied in a business setting and would increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. Specific differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values will be addressed in collaboration. How each difference influences behavior will be discussed. How these differences will be effectively implemented in the plan to positively influence the team will be discussed. All team environments can be challenging. In order for the team to work together, the team must realize one another’s personalities. Every team member must be aware of his or her own personality and how he or she will work into the team. The personality characteristics must be understood as in relation to the other team member’s personalities. Learning one’s own personality will enable the team to not only learn about themselves but better work with other team personalities. Motivation, Satisfaction, and Performance In order to increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance one must maintain a well-balanced order. A brainstorm activity with the team to discover one another’s characteristic traits from a creative forum would be a starting point. By learning one another’s creative side one can gain the insight into what the individual really has a passion...
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... May 27, 2013 Abstract Our team has been assign a project that will take one year to complete. To have a successful work experience and get the job done there are factors that we must consider. Start by creating a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction and performance. We must start also by evaluating each team member attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values and how they influence behavior. Diversity is in the workplace and it is necessary to improve the value of effort from each individual on the team. The three elements in a business setting to making goals achievable are motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper is to prepare a plan and apply it in a business setting in increasing the performance, satisfaction and motivation of all members of a team. Throughout the paper will be addressing the differences in motivation and personalities discover in team collaboration and how each influence behavior. Introduction When working in a group there is various types of teams that are found in many settings. Regardless of the setting of the team, accepting and appreciating the similarities and differences of the teammates can contribute more effectively and improve productivity as a whole. Creating a plan that will influence organization positively is important for management in an organization. Teams need to understand the objectives of the task and know that it is important element to the plan. This will motivate team members who are willing to indentify...
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...Motivation Plan Motivation Plan It takes a good deal of discontentment in a team for a leader to have to make a motivational plan. For any adjustment to occur correctly, the leader must identify a varying set of unique characteristics for each member of his or her team to assist in establishing cohesive relationships within that team. According to Woodward (2011, March 7), “Building and cultivating relationships is an integral part of any career strategy” (para. 1). The leader must understand the organizational culture and each team member’s attitudes, emotions, personality, behavior, and values before implementing the changes for the new motivational plan. Organizational Culture When identifying the culture of the organization, Robbins and Judge (2013) stated, “Organizational culture refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations” (p. 512). At each of level, division, department, and team, the cultural identification philosophy is also used. A leader can treat the culture as the personality of the organizational and align his or her management style to that personality. Mentor identified the organizational culture as fun and inviting with a high level of required results (personal communication, June 6, 2013); Palmira (2013) classifies this as a “Work Hard/Play Hard Culture” (para. 12). The personality is one of fun, humor, and dedication to the customer. When viewing the culture as a personality, Schein...
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...Positive Influence Plan Positive Influence Plan Different personalities of team members influence team dynamics and performance. Varying levels of motivation can change team objectives, and work satisfaction can translate in how the team successfully or unsuccessfully accomplishes the intended purpose. A working knowledge of how these factors can influence a team’s performance is an immense asset for managers and team leaders to understand. This plan of positive influence emphasizes the prospect of increasing team performance by means of identifying how these factors are associated with individual personal attitudes, emotions, and values. This plan will summarize the way we plan to use these influences and provides conclusions related to positive influence in team performance. Planning to increase a team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance requires an understanding of how motivation drives team performance. When working on extended projects this becomes even more important as the team progress through the different phases of project completion. When individual team members are not satisfied with his or her job they are usually not comfortable with the team concept. Using the attitudes, emotions, values, and personalities of employees to motivate their team performance creates a cohesive and efficient team that will grow as the project progress...
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...Creating a plan for positive influence Plan to improve the performance of a soccer team within one season (one year) which has been underperforming for a few years and has just been purchased. Team collaboration is a challenge organizations encounter because of various personalities, attitudes, emotions and values of the individuals that make up the team. A team is a group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job, or project. The team members should be willing to plan strategically to achieve the desired goals. To positively influence a team to improve performance, the team has to be well motivated, motivation usually leads to job satisfaction and job satisfaction comes with the end result being improved team performance. First there has to be goal setting which every member of the team can relate to. This goal is to improve prove performance in one year. Next we have to bring together the individuals that would help achieve the pre determine goal. The first team member should be the team leader (coach) who has a record of being able to motivate his team members. Then we bring in the team members each with attributes which he can bring to help the team achieve its desired goal. Motivation: Motivation refers to the force (effort) within a person that affects the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behavior. Intensity describes how hard a person tries; this is a major element when we talk about motivation. We also...
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...Professional Development Plan Personalities come in all shapes and sizes. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. Personalities range from how you act with family to how you show yourself in your career. All different personalities all make up a workforce. In this paper we will be breaking down those personalities and presenting a plan that helps improve their relationship with their work and their team within their career. Individual Assessments Working individually or on a team requires you giving yourself to your work. Depending on your personality it can either help you in your career, or hinder you within your team. On my team I have 7 individuals who work together will very different styles of personalities. Within those personalities there are the thinkers, master-minders, producers, assessor, and the perfecter. When dealing with personalities that include wanting to be right, fear of losing individuality, not like authority, natural curiosity, and someone who likes to have control it can become difficult not only to address those personalities but also to combine them in a team atmosphere. Double space throughout in APA Master-minder The master-minder with the cautious style is more guarded, less indirect, is overly analytical. This can not only help the team by being analytical, but it can also cause conflict if the other personalities see the master-mind as a threat. Since the master-mind does seem to take some calculated risks it does seem that...
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