Description

How to Lead and Manage a Team?

Team management is essential for any organisation to ensure productivity, collaboration and efficiency. Leaders and managers orchestrate teams to align their efforts so that they can achieve common goals and objectives. Team management includes activities, strategies and actions which unite people in an effort to be successful. Working as a group grants better productivity and effectiveness compared to individual work.

Characteristics of Team Management include:
     -   A unified aim among the entire team.
     -   Defined roles reduce conflicts within the group.
     -   Open communication between members is encouraged.

An organisation’s success depends upon effective team management and team leadership. Team management involves forming teams to achieve specific objectives while team leadership requires utilising guidelines, techniques and methodologies to encourage and motivate the team towards successful completion of its goals. Working hand-in-hand, combining strong team management with motivational leadership ensures that an organisation will reach its objectives.

Team management is essential for any organization. Here are some of the most effective ways to manage a team and promote success:

      -   Establish meaningful relationships between team members.
      -   Provide opportunities for professional growth and development.
      -   Request feedback to gain insight into how the team is doing.
      -   Set clear goals and objectives that everyone can work towards.
      -   Foster collaboration across teams to maximise productivity and output.

About this course

•  Training Provider: OHS.com.au
•  Location: Online
•  Course length: Varies average 20 minutes
•  Time: Self-paced
•  Certification / Accreditation: Certificate of Completion

Background – Who is a team leader?
A team leader is accountable for directing a team of individuals during a certain initiative or toward an intended outcome. This role is distinct from a manager and focuses more on cultivating an environment of cooperation and determining the trajectory of a given task or program. The team lead is tasked with allocating work, monitoring progress towards objectives, and offering guidance and instruction to the assigned group. Team leaders serve as a source of support, even when they don't have a manager title.

A team leader is responsible for overseeing a particular set of tasks, such as a project, program, or portfolio of programs. Their responsibilities include: organising work, setting goals, connecting work to context, delegating tasks, leading by example, allocating and managing resources, resolving issues, monitoring project progress, informing stakeholders of progress, instructing team members to enhance their skillsets, inspiring team members to reach their objectives, leveraging team member strengths, and advocating for team requirements.

To move into a team management role, you should Gain experience in core management duties by taking part in hands-on activities, enrolling in formal training courses, or studying online courses and certifications. These activities will help to strengthen your team management skills and bolster your ability to effectively lead a group.

Course Outline
OHS’s Lead and Manage a Team training course covers the competencies related to leading teams in an organisational setting and working with higher management.

This training course will help in coordinating work teams to create a positive atmosphere in the workplace, while also employing complex strategies and procedures to make decisions. Furthermore, they must possess problem solving and decision making capabilities.

Learning Outcomes
    -   Consult team members to establish a common understanding of team purpose,                         roles, responsibilities and accountabilities in accordance with organisational                                 goals, plans and objectives.
    -   Develop performance plans to establish expected outcomes, outputs, key                                    performance  indicators (KPIs) and goals for work team.
    -   Support team members in meeting expected performance outcomes.
    -   Develop strategies to ensure team members have input into planning, decision                          making and operational aspects of work team.
    -   Develop policies and procedures to ensure team members take responsibility for                       own work and assist others to undertake required roles and responsibilities.
    -   Provide feedback to team members to encourage, value and reward individual                          and  team efforts and contributions.
    -    Develop processes to ensure that issues, concerns and problems identified by                              team members are recognised and addressed.
    -    Encourage team members and individuals to participate in and to take                                          responsibility for team activities, including communication processes.
    -    Support the team in identifying and resolving work performance problems
    -    Ensure own contribution to work team serves as a role model for others and                                enhances the organisation’s image for all stakeholders.