Team Leader’s Challenge (Case Study)
Q1- What are the pros and cons of reorganizing the
office into a team?
Working teams offer some benefits when collaborating to derive a better quality, and a more
creative solution to a specific problem. When employees from different backgrounds
and perspectives discuss the given alternative solutions, the best possible
solution will be chosen. Here, challenges can occur when teams replace more
individualized work upon them. Therefore, by setting individual goals with the
team goals, employee can create a more friendly environment and a tend to have
a healthy competition influencing each other's motivation.
Cons can happen when team members view themselves as competing
for attention and getting praise for their accomplishments rather than
cooperating in the organizational goals. In this case managers (leaders) have
to figure out a way how to reward teamwork while encouraging cooperation to
achieve the organizational goals.
Q2- Who should be on the team? Should the team include
both the professionals and the clerical assistants?
Both should be on the team.
It is known that trust in the workplace can
sometimes be difficult to maintain, but it's a necessary part of running a successful
business. Therefore, professionals could benefit from having some kind of the
clerical assistants help especially during the administrative support. They might
have difficulties in trusting others to take over important tasks. But here comes the leadership part again to balance the expertise power
towards accomplishment.
I believe that you should always make your assistants a
priority. Because those people can be one of the most important employees you
will ever have, and they should be taking on tasks to give you more chance to
do the things that you are the best and most productive at.
We should abandon the traditional
structure in which decision rights are reserved only for people at the top. As a Leader, my role here is to involve the entire team
with a sense of responsibility and authority for the project. This can have
more benefits when employees feel more empowered and engaged towards achieving
goals.