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Development - Brief Your Team
Meetings are today often held at the drop of a hat, driving busy line managers
to desperation. But if you wish to
achieve your tasks or objectives, you will have to have informal, often
impromptu, team meetings.
A
word on effective leadership: managers have
to do a fine balancing act between: (a) the task:
priorities, deadlines, monitoring, assessing results, feedback
(b)
The individual: gaining commitment,
developing, caring for the whole person;
(c) the team: encouraging
cohesiveness, stressing common goals, matching talents and nurturing stragglers.
Concentrating solely on the
task or on only individuals will weaken the team, which is the vehicle taking
all of you to a common destination.
Regular team meetings are
a useful way of achieving the following:
- Sharing information
- Clarifying and
reinforcing goals
- Sparking off ideas
- Forming deeper
relationships within the team
- Seeing the team in
action, for deciding fine-tuning needed.
Team
meetings can be brief…. 20
to 30 minutes…. and item specific, but can be used to cover queries
raised earlier and deferred till now. See each other as human beings with a common aim: success
through teamwork.
QUESTION :
1.
Why is it necessary to brief their teams occasionally? What fine
juggling act does a manager have to perform on his way to achieving objectives?
2.
The manager has priorities of his own, and constraints; what are the ways in which he normally
goes about achieving his objectives?
