Team Leadership Model Leadership Decisions Monitor or take action? Intervene on task or relational needs? Intervene internally or externally? Internal Leadership Actions External Leadership Actions Task Relational Environmental Goal focusing Structuring for results Facilitating decision making Training Maintaining standards Coaching Collaborating Managing conflict Building commitment Satisfying needs Building principles Networking Advocating Negotiating support Buffering Assessing Sharing information Team Effectiveness Performance Development Susan E. Kogler Hill: cited in Northouse, Peter, G. (2007) Leadership: Theory and Practice, 4th Ed. ,p207,London, Sage 1 Team Leadership Model ! Effective team performance begins with the leader’s mental model of the situation problems ! team context solutions Research shows that work teams achieve:• • • • Better decisions Better quality services Greater creativity and innovation More effective use of resources (Zaccaro et al., 2001) 2 Team Leadership Model “ Indeed, we would argue that effective leadership processes represent perhaps the most critical factor in the success of organizational teams ” (Zaccaro, Rittman & Marks, 2001, p 452) “ Conversely, ineffective leadership often is seen as the primary reason teams fail ” (Stewart & Manz, 1995, p748) ! Team leadership can be performed by the team leader and/or shared by team members. Day, Gronn and Salas (2004) refer to this shared or distributed leadership as team leadership capacity. 3 1