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Team Work... the Mastermind Group!
TEAM LEADERS' WORKSHOP (con't)
4. The managing leadership style
Manager leadership style, I’m describing a leader who has the ability to
organize people, processes, and resources to achieve a mission. The manager
leader salivates at the thought of bringing order out of chaos. He or she
finds deep satisfaction in monitoring and fine-tuning a process, and
motivates team members by establishing appropriate mile markers on the road
to the destination. It’s surprising how many visionary leaders are inept at
managing people, processes, and money.
5. The motivational leadership style
Leaders with the motivational style are on the constant lookout for “sagging
shoulders and dull eyes,” and they move quickly to inject the right kind of
inspiration into those who need it most. They have a keen sense about who
needs public recognition and who needs just a private word of encouragement.
They seem to know exactly when a particular team member would get a
necessary boost from a day off, an office move, a title change, or a
training opportunity.
Some leaders view the motivation approach as a lightweight style of leadership. But it’s a huge mistake to underestimate the value of this style.
6. The shepherding leadership style
The shepherding leader is man or a woman who builds a team slowly, loves
team members deeply, nurtures them gently, supports them consistently,
listens to them patiently, and prays for them diligently. This kind of
leader draws team members into such a rich community experience that their
hearts begin to overflow with good will that energizes them for achieving
their mission.
7. The team – building leadership style
The team-building leader knows the vision and understands how to achieve it,
but realizes it will take a team of leaders and workers to accomplish the
goal. Team-builders have a supernatural insight into people that allows them
to successfully find and develop the right people with the right abilities, the right character, and the right chemistry with other team members. Then good team-builders know how to put these people in the right positions for the right reasons, thus freeing them to produce the right results.
When the appropriate people have been placed in appropriate position, the team-building leader says to the appointed team, “You know what we’re trying to do. You know what part of the mission you’re responsible for. You know what part the rest of us around the circle are responsible for. So – head out! Get on with it! Work hard in your department.
Communicate with your co-labourers. Create action. Get the job done!” The difference between the shepherding leader and the team-building leader is that the team-builder is driven more by a clear understanding pf the vision than by the desire to nurture and build community.
Of course, building teams always involves building community, but the unique strength of team-building leaders is that they have a stranglehold on the strategy and an acute insight into people that allows them to make precise placements of personnel into critical leadership roles. Leaders gifted as team-builders may or may not be skilled at managing their teams. In fact, many of them reason that management isn’t all that critical anyway; if the right people are in the right slots doing the right things for the right reasons, these people will accomplish their goals whether or not there is someone looking over their shoulders.
8. The Entrepreneurial leadership style
The Entrepreneurial leadership style has a unique twist. Entrepreneurial
leaders may possess any of the other leadership styles, but what
distinguishes these leaders from the others is that they function optimally
in start-up mode. If these leaders can’t regularly give birth to something
new they begin to lose energy. Once a venture is up and operational, once
the effort requires steady ongoing management, once things get complicated
and requires endless discussion about policies, systems, and controls, then
most entrepreneurial leaders lose enthusiasm, focus, and sometimes even
confidence.
9. The Reengineering leadership style
While entrepreneurial leaders love to start new endeavours, reengineering
leaders are at their best in turn-around environments. These leaders thrive
on the challenge of taking a troubled situation – a team that has lost its
vision, where people are in wrong positions, a department trying to move
forward without a strategy – and turning it around. This leader says, “This
is my lucky day. I get to start reengineering this mess.”
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