What Leaders, Facilitators and Coaches Have In Common
 |
Free Download - Five Ways to Improve Your Team Building Success By Dianne Crampton |
The flattening of organizations leaves many managers wondering where they fit in. Work teams make decisions and control resources once considered a management role.
Yet, change brought about by flattening creates a greater need for accurate and timely information. Therefore, people practiced in communication, confrontation, and system thinking find new opportunities and challenges in team-based organizations.
Known as “facilitative” leaders, the people who fill team leadership roles must also be grounded in core values consistent with concepts of empowerment, collaboration, accountability, learning and partnership. For one reason, facilitative leaders are part of the work group and are deeply involved in what the group has set out to accomplish.
Therefore, they must also be experts in content and group process as they facilitate the flow of information among executive leaders, work team members, and the ultimate consumer.
Team leaders hold the team accountable for measuring and monitoring goals. Consultative and coaching in nature, facilitative leaders help teams produce high quality work that is on target and on time.
For this reason facilitative leaders must have access to all relevant company information in order to guide the team and help team members understand how their accomplishments contribute to meeting company goals. This could include organizational strategy, budget information, financial information, and all data necessary for the team’s optimum success.
Likewise, the facilitative leader must be knowledgeable and practiced in group process in order to confront group problems head on with the highest level of integrity. Failure to do so often results in group think and cavalier solutions to company problems that can literally bring an organization to its knees.
Simply put, a lack of group process skills might result in a team that accomplishes nothing of value, wasting company resources.
The following team attributes help identify what a facilitative leader should be prepared for.
1. Shared Power
Facilitative leaders work from the paradigm that shared power is necessary in order to instill the highest quality team member commitment.
2. Internal Accountability
Based on valid information and freedom to choose a course of action, team members must assume responsibility for their decisions. The facilitative leader ensures that the team’s decisions are on target and work.
3. Learning
Groups grow through people who grow and groups learn through people who learn. The ability to stop and reflect on what worked or didn’t work is essential to a group’s ongoing effectiveness.
Facilitative leadership skills are easy to learn and can be practiced over time. One way to insure success is to enlist the services of a TIGERS Success Series coach to help your company sort through competitive and collaborative practices so that you both optimize your time and effort.
Responsible for both content and process, the facilitative leader guides the group to be on time, on target, and on budget.
What Leaders Facilitators and Coaches Have In Common - To learn more about this author, visit Dianne Crampton's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
| Article Tags: coaching leadership, facilitators, leadership style, small business owner, team leader |
 | |
 |
No article feedback found. |
| |
Leave Your Feedback |
 | |
| |||
|
To learn more about the Evan Elite Author Program please contact us. |
 | |
|  |
Subscribe to Dianne's articles
 | |
|
|  |
 |
|
Dianne Crampton Video - Dianne Crampton's Team building success relies on behaviors that build happiness. And, happy people are more productive. These behaviors anchor collaborative values that are necessary to build an ethical, quality focused, productive and highly successful team.
|
|
|
 | |||||||
|
 | ||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
| ||
 |
| Have you written articles that would be of value to entrepreneurs? Become an expert on our site by publishing them! Expose yourself to a wide audience, drive more traffic to your website and get more sales! Click Here for details. |
|
|
 |
| Modeling the Masters: Learn the true secrets behind Walt Disney's business success factors & grow your company! Video produced by Phanta Media |
|
|
 |
|
Get advice & tips from famous business owners, new articles by entrepreneur experts, my latest website updates, & special sneak peaks at what's to come!
|
|
|
 Online Marketing Tools Instant Flyers How to Get a Life Host Beneficiary Book of Leadership |
|
 | ||
 |
Top 50 HR Blogs 2009
Top 50 HR Blogs 2009 | |
 |
The Top 10 GTD Times Posts
Best Posts for Productivity | |
| ||
 | ||||
| ||||
|
 | ||||
| ||||
|
|
 | ||||
| ||||
|
 | ||||
| ||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
