团队领导能力

Becoming a team leader Table of contents 1.0 Introduction2 2.0 Definition of leadership .2 3.0 Key elements of effective leadership.3 4.0 Conclusion .8 References9 1 1.0 Introduction1.0 Introduction This paper is to going to discuss how to become a successful team leader.For work team, leader plays an extremely important role. Normally, effective leader always is based on four dimensions, which respectively are the developmentof motivating vision or goal,effective actions to lead a team to work, creation of team cohesiveness, as well as attention to employees (Scouller, 2011). Effective team leader can offer effective guidance and instruction for other employees in the team to complete expected goal (Strang & Kuhnert, 2009) In addition to this, effective leaders always can make their best of their talents and inner qualities to motivate other employees to work with higher perance, and thereby reaching satisfactory results. Undoubtedly, a successful leader not only should process some essential qualities such as outstanding charisma and outstanding self awareness and so on, but also should master some effective ability and skills such as communication ability, organizing ability, management skills and so on. In order to help an individual to be a successful leader in work team, many previous scholars researched on the essential elements of an effective leader. Based on this background, this paper will focuses on discussing some key elements of effective leadership by trait theory of leadership and drawing on my personal experiences. 2.0 Definition of leadership2.0 Definition of leadership In terms of leadership, there also still is not a uni definition. Different scholars have defined leadership based on different perspectives. According to the definition proposed by Ginkel and Knippenberg (2012), leadership means that the person leading must be able to inspire others to follow. In addition to this,Knippenberg (2011) defined that leadership the influence one rts, either overtly or covertly, to encourage others to strive to reach objectives. According to these definitions, leadership could be considered as a kind of ability owned by leader to motivate employees to accomplish expected goals. Wang et al (2011) highlighted that leadership is a behavioral process in which a leader per right behavior to lead a team to work with higher working perance. According to this definition, a successful leader always can engage in rights behaviors to lead a team to work hard in order to achieve expected goals. Strang and Kuhnert (2009) definition leadership as leader’s ability to provide effective direction, guidance and instructions to fellow workers to accomplish job 2 tasks in order to achieve some common goals. For a work team or an organization, effective leader plays an extremely important role because effective leader can lead a team or an organization to accomplish some relevant job effectively and thereby increasing team working perfor