Question

Case One   Teamwork

Martha is a Manager of IT who was assigned 10 employees to work as part of a team. Martha has lots of experience in project management, but it is her first time leading a team. She contacted each person on the team individually and told them what they needed to do - she left the deadline up to them. For some reason, after a month of time, the team was not responding how she thought they would, there was little cooperation and some members were asking to leave the team altogether while two other members were arguing often. Martha was distraught and could not figure out what went wrong.

Question:

1. With your knowledge of Teams from the course, list what went wrong in this scenario.

Outline in detail what you would advise Martha to do to fix this situation and complete the project.

Answer 1

Martha was a manager of IT who have 10 employees working under her, Actually Martha was a team leader of 10 members in a particular project and she was leading the team first time. The Martha went wrong-

1- Martha is the team leader so it is a duty of Martha to get regular meeting done, where all the team member have to attend that meeting. Through this method Martha holds the team together and proper communication will be there among all the team members.

2- Martha should organize regular meeting section among the team members, and the plan should always be designed or strategy should always be form, by invovling each and every members of the team, through this way they all will get to connect and work together as a team.

3- The activity that Martha performed is not right such as going individually to each team member and assigning there work and no completion date were given to any member. Martha should organize the meeting and all the job should be assigned infornt of every team member and the completion date should always be set or given to the members so that they will work in pressure and try to complete their job before the date given.

4- Regualr checking of work or monitoring of work factor was missing by Martha. Martha should regularly check the work of each team member. This will help Martha to know ,who is doing how much work and Martha should always monitor the work that is assigned to the workers.

The qualities of leaders to lead the team are-

1- A clear cut communication- A team leader convey the message clearly. Quality verbal and composed relational abilities permit leaders to introduce desires to colleagues in a manner laborers can comprehend. Successful relational abilities additionally permit leaders to tune in to the contribution of others.

2- Influence the team member- The leader should influence or motivate the team member to achieve the goal at given time and work for the company and help the company to grow.

3- Inspire the team members- A good leader should inspire the team member to work hard and meet the expectation of the work.

4- Fair and kind- A team leader convey the message clearly. Quality verbal and composed relational abilities permit leaders to introduce desires to colleagues in a manner laborers can comprehend. Successful relational abilities additionally permit leaders to tune in to the contribution of others.