Leading teams effectively requires being both an effective team member and fostering an environment of team work within your department.
When managers work collaboratively with their teams to address challenges and achieve common goals, they are demonstrating effective teamwork behaviors.
When managers encourage, enable and motivate their teams to work collaboratively with each other to achieve common goals, they are demonstrating the ability to foster teamwork among others.
There are a number of competencies or behaviors that enable for managers to be both an effective team and to foster teamwork within the organization, including:
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Demonstrating Teamwork Behaviors |
Fostering Teamwork Behaviors |
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The ability to both be a team member and to lead your team is essential not only for your success as a manager in the organization, but also to engage and motivate your team so they can achieve their personal career goals and work toward achieving the goals of the department and the organization overall. Being a team member, however, is not easy for all managers. As a manager, the tendency is to lead only, not join the team as a member. However, if you observe the best leaders you know, you’ll see that they function as both a team member and a team leader.
