ESSAY: Analyzing the team

This week, you will conclude your team assignment by evaluating your team’s effectiveness and assessing your leadership skills. You should bring together all of the insights that you have gained while studying in the course and while completing the weekly final assignments. On the basis of your readings and lectures, answer the following questions:
How effective have change initiatives been in the team? Is the change resisted?
How effectively does the team learn together?
Use at least three other concepts from your study in the course to describe the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of the team, its leader, and its members.
What specific contributions did you make toward your team’s goal?
What could you have done to improve the success of your team and what action steps should be implemented to enhance the future effectiveness of the team? Discuss your strengths and weaknesses.
Did you experience any change in your thinking regarding what leadership means in today’s organizations or in your understanding, of how it is effectively applied in day-to-day experiences?
What parts of your emotional intelligence (EI) needs the most work to improve your leadership skills?
Identify three specific leadership concepts from your assigned readings for this course that you will use to improve your leadership skills. Be sure to explain the concept briefly and the benefit it will bring to you as a leader.

ANSWER

Change Initiatives

            Change is inevitable and plays an important role in the creation of viable operational strategies that lead to the attainment of organizational goals and objectives. The implementation of change is a process that requires the application of important initiatives such as stakeholder engagement and making relevant adjustments. The change to participatory and democratic leadership styles have had positive implications for the team. The employees were willing to be included in the participatory form of leadership leading to the formulation of corroborative strategies meant to have long-term goals to company operations (Bird & Wang, 2013). Ideally, the introduction of the leadership styles received minimal resistance based on the positive implication that the practice had to the company and team members. Employees openly embraced the practice because it enabled them to express their opinions on important matters that involved the management….

Team Learn Together

            Teamwork is an important factor that the company is keen at retaining. The practice entails effective training of the employees to work as a team rather than as individuals. Monthly training programs is a company practice that facilitates the team to learn together. The employees are placed together on regular classes whereby they can be taught on important company processes that need to be effectively conceptualized. On the hand, interprofessional collaboration plays an important role in the learning process. Employees with different skills and experiences work together to facilitate easy learning and sharing of important ideas that are critical to ….

The effectiveness of the team

            The team was collaborative in most activities. Each team member understood the necessity of working together, and they strived towards attaining the predefined organizational goals and objectives. The leader effectively communicated with team members to foster morale and motivation. He understood the strength and weakness of each person, which is a key factor that positively contributed to the career development of each team member. The ability to include, command, and coordinate the team members made…

My Contributions Toward Team’s Goal

            I positively contributed to the team’s goal by collaborating with others to achieve a common goal. The ability to embrace teamwork helped me to complete tasks in the most effective and efficient manner. My primary task in the group was to organize and direct my fellow team members. Organizing enabled me to apply my managerial skills by ensuring that specified company goals are attained. Charismatic leadership was an added advantage as it played a pivotal role in the success of the team because I inspired team …