How to be a Good Team Leader
An effective team leader will use the GRIPS model
Define Goals:
• help the team and each individual to be clear about who their customer is, what outputs are required from them and the standards they need to meet
• identify and agree objectives for continuous improvement
• demonstrate how these objectives contribute to the overall corporate goal (s)
Clarify Roles :
• identify how each individual fits into the team and the customer-supplier chain(s)
• explain your role and how you will provide support
Strive for honest Interaction:
• swap constructive feedback; listen to your team
• share feelings and concerns; be open
• aim for equality not dominance
• admit mistakes; give praise as well as censure
Support Personal development:
• systematically identify individual's strengths and needs
• agree personal development goals
• identify ways to meet these needs and goals
• coach, counsel and facilitate personal development
Adapt your Style :
• use the appropriate style to reflect each individual's level of development and the nature of the task. For example:
• use TELL when someone is very unsure or lacking knowledge and experience try CONSULTING your team to gain their views and ideas before you make a decision.
• when they have more experience, build their confidence by JOINT decision-making
• when individuals and/or the team have sufficient experience and confidence then DELEGATE goals and task to them and let them be responsible for working out how to achieve them
How It helps
Effective leadership is one of the key factors in successful teams. This GRIPS checklist summarises the main things a team leader needs to work on.
How to be a Good Team Member
An effective leader alone is not enough to make a team work well. Each individual must make a contribution. This checklist outlines the main areas that this should cover.
An effective team member:
• Knows and understands the purpose, objectives and performance measures of the team
• Contributes constructively to the development of the objectives and measures and plans to achieve them
• Has individual objectives and tasks to complete to contribute towards the team performance
• Attends team meetings; punctually and willingly
• Contributes ideas, information and experience during the meetings
• Takes an active role (scribe, timekeeper. etc) in meetings as required
• Listens to other members and builds on their views and ideas
• Participates constructively in debate
• Accepts the consensus view of the team
• Takes a share of the work to be done between meetings and completes this to a high standard on time
• Supports the leader and other members outside the team once plans and actions have been agreed
• Inputs high energy and enthusiasm into the team and the work to be done
• Recognises the contributions and help of others in the team.
(Courtsey- Build that team by Steve Smith)
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Leadership Skills -Great Speakers and Orators - -2
As indicated in my earlier post, public speaking skills is one of the most essential ingredients of effective leadership. If we examine history we may find many great leaders who could sway the masses by their verbal skills. The great revolutionary leaders of Voltaire Rousseau and Montesquieu are often quoted in this regard. Even in our own times Winston Churchill, the great war time Prime minister of Great Briton, Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Mahathma Gandhi are all classic examples of great orators becoming great leaders. Here in his book on successful Public speaking the author narrates about a few olden speakers who were the pioneers in the art of Public speaking . Read on ..
"Demosthenes
Demosthenes stands preeminent among Greek orators. His well-known oration "On the Crown," the preparation of which occupied a large part of seven years, is regarded as the oratorical masterpiece of all history.
It is encouraging to the student of public speaking to recall that this distinguished orator at first had serious natural defects to overcome. His voice was weak, he stammered in his speech, and was painfully diffident. These faults were remedied, as is well-known, by earnest daily practise in declaiming on the sea-shore, with pebbles in the mouth, walking up and down hill while reciting, and deliberately seeking occasions for conversing with groups of people.
The chief lesson for you to draw from Demosthenes is that he was indefatigable in his study of the art of oratory. He left nothing to chance. His speeches were characterized by deliberate forethought. He excelled other men not because of great natural ability but because of intelligent and continuous industry. He stands for all time as the most inspiring example of oratorical achievement, despite almost insuperable difficulties.
Cicero
The fame of Roman oratory rests upon Cicero, whose eloquence was second only to that of Demosthenes. He was a close student of the art of speaking. He was so intense and vehement by nature that he was obliged in his early career to spend two years in Greece, exercising in the gymnasium in order to restore his shattered constitution.
His nervous temperament clung to him, however, since he made this significant confession after long years of practise in public speaking. "I declare that when I think of the moment when I shall have to rise and speak in defense of a client, I am not only disturbed in mind, but tremble in every limb of my body."
It is well to note here that a nervous temperament may be a help rather than a hindrance to a speaker. Indeed, it is the highly sensitive nature that often produces the most persuasive orator, but only when he has learned to conserve and properly use this valuable power.
Cicero was a living embodiment of the comprehensive requirements laid down by the ancients as essential to the orator. He had a knowledge of logic, ethics, astronomy, philosophy, geometry, music, and rhetoric. Little wonder, therefore, that his amazing eloquence was described as a resistless torrent.
Luther
Martin Luther was the dominating orator of the Reformation. He combined a strong physique with great intellectual power. "If I wish to compose, or write, or pray, or preach well," said he, "I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, my understanding is sharpened, and all dismal thoughts and temptations are dissipated." What the great Reformer called "anger," we would call indignation or earnestness.
John Knox
John Knox, the Scotch reformer, was a preeminent preacher. His pulpit style was characterized by a fiery eloquence which stirred his hearers to great enthusiasm and sometimes to violence.
Bossuet
Bossuet, regarded as the greatest orator France has produced, was a fearless and inspired speaker. His style was dignified and deliberate, but as he warmed with his theme his thought took fire and he carried his hearers along upon a swiftly moving tide of impassioned eloquence. When he spoke from the text, "Be wise, therefore, O ye Kings! be instructed, ye judges of the earth!" the King himself was thrilled as with a religious terror.
To ripe scholarship Bossuet added a voice that was deep and sonorous, an imposing personality, and an animated style of gesture. Lamartine described his voice as "like that of the thunder in the clouds, or the organ in the cathedral."
Bourdaloue
Louis Bourdaloue, styled "the preacher of Kings, and the King of preachers," was a speaker of versatile powers. He could adapt his style to any audience, and "mechanics left their shops, merchants their business, and lawyers their court house" in order to hear him. His high personal character, simplicity of life, and clear and logical utterance combined to make him an accomplished orator.
Massillon
Massillon preached directly to the hearts of his hearers. He was of a deeply affectionate nature, hence his style was that of tender persuasiveness rather than of declamation. He had remarkable spiritual insight and knowledge of the human heart, and was himself deeply moved by the truths which he proclaimed to other men." ( Source- Successful Public speaking)
To be continued...
"Demosthenes
Demosthenes stands preeminent among Greek orators. His well-known oration "On the Crown," the preparation of which occupied a large part of seven years, is regarded as the oratorical masterpiece of all history.
It is encouraging to the student of public speaking to recall that this distinguished orator at first had serious natural defects to overcome. His voice was weak, he stammered in his speech, and was painfully diffident. These faults were remedied, as is well-known, by earnest daily practise in declaiming on the sea-shore, with pebbles in the mouth, walking up and down hill while reciting, and deliberately seeking occasions for conversing with groups of people.
The chief lesson for you to draw from Demosthenes is that he was indefatigable in his study of the art of oratory. He left nothing to chance. His speeches were characterized by deliberate forethought. He excelled other men not because of great natural ability but because of intelligent and continuous industry. He stands for all time as the most inspiring example of oratorical achievement, despite almost insuperable difficulties.
Cicero
The fame of Roman oratory rests upon Cicero, whose eloquence was second only to that of Demosthenes. He was a close student of the art of speaking. He was so intense and vehement by nature that he was obliged in his early career to spend two years in Greece, exercising in the gymnasium in order to restore his shattered constitution.
His nervous temperament clung to him, however, since he made this significant confession after long years of practise in public speaking. "I declare that when I think of the moment when I shall have to rise and speak in defense of a client, I am not only disturbed in mind, but tremble in every limb of my body."
It is well to note here that a nervous temperament may be a help rather than a hindrance to a speaker. Indeed, it is the highly sensitive nature that often produces the most persuasive orator, but only when he has learned to conserve and properly use this valuable power.
Cicero was a living embodiment of the comprehensive requirements laid down by the ancients as essential to the orator. He had a knowledge of logic, ethics, astronomy, philosophy, geometry, music, and rhetoric. Little wonder, therefore, that his amazing eloquence was described as a resistless torrent.
Luther
Martin Luther was the dominating orator of the Reformation. He combined a strong physique with great intellectual power. "If I wish to compose, or write, or pray, or preach well," said he, "I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, my understanding is sharpened, and all dismal thoughts and temptations are dissipated." What the great Reformer called "anger," we would call indignation or earnestness.
John Knox
John Knox, the Scotch reformer, was a preeminent preacher. His pulpit style was characterized by a fiery eloquence which stirred his hearers to great enthusiasm and sometimes to violence.
Bossuet
Bossuet, regarded as the greatest orator France has produced, was a fearless and inspired speaker. His style was dignified and deliberate, but as he warmed with his theme his thought took fire and he carried his hearers along upon a swiftly moving tide of impassioned eloquence. When he spoke from the text, "Be wise, therefore, O ye Kings! be instructed, ye judges of the earth!" the King himself was thrilled as with a religious terror.
To ripe scholarship Bossuet added a voice that was deep and sonorous, an imposing personality, and an animated style of gesture. Lamartine described his voice as "like that of the thunder in the clouds, or the organ in the cathedral."
Bourdaloue
Louis Bourdaloue, styled "the preacher of Kings, and the King of preachers," was a speaker of versatile powers. He could adapt his style to any audience, and "mechanics left their shops, merchants their business, and lawyers their court house" in order to hear him. His high personal character, simplicity of life, and clear and logical utterance combined to make him an accomplished orator.
Massillon
Massillon preached directly to the hearts of his hearers. He was of a deeply affectionate nature, hence his style was that of tender persuasiveness rather than of declamation. He had remarkable spiritual insight and knowledge of the human heart, and was himself deeply moved by the truths which he proclaimed to other men." ( Source- Successful Public speaking)
To be continued...
