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Managerial Inputs in 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:
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Sharing information
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Clarifying and reinforcing goals
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Sparking off ideas
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Forming deeper relationships within the team
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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?
