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University of
Wales Lampeter

Word Count: 3514

Submitted to: Alan Foran, Grafton College.

Date: 2nd December 2009

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Table of Content:
Table of Content:.................................................................................................................2
Introduction:.........................................................................................................................3
Leadership:...........................................................................................................................4
Effective Leadership:.......................................................................................................5
Leadership Framework:...................................................................................................6
Factors affecting Leadership:...........................................................................................6
Be Know That:.................................................................................................................7
Communication Importance in Leadership:.....................................................................7
Teamwork development:.....................................................................................................8
Tuckman Team Development Stages:.........................................................................9
Project Management Group:................................................................................................9
PM Group Followed Bass’ Theory of Leadership:........................................................10
PM Group under Principles of Leadership:...................................................................10
PM Group in Communication Zone:.............................................................................11
PM Group under Team Development Area:..................................................................11
PM Group under the TUCKMAN Model:.....................................................................11
Conclusion:........................................................................................................................12
Recommendations: ............................................................................................................12
Bibliography:.....................................................................................................................13
Hyperlinks:.....................................................................................................................13
Books:............................................................................................................................13

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Introduction:
To become a leader it is mandatory to have undaunted determination, firm faith,
no limits in strength, no dimension of the time, motivational skills, knowledge and etc.
Search based on Leadership treats are going through an ages. Firstly people wanted to
know the correct difference between an individual and leader. Early different facets and
characteristics of the leadership were measure. Some people like Galton in 1869 termed
leader as a powerful man, he described leadership skill as inherent, and means leaders are
all made, not trained. After that researches continued and hence derived the formulae that
Leaders are not born they are made. If one has aspiration and willpower, educated,
experienced, he could be the leader of the organization. So therefore:

 ‘’Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says
is possible.’’ -- Collin
Powell
 ‘’Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an
objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and
coherent.’’ ---Anonymous
 "Effective leadership is the ability to successfully integrate and maximize available
resources within the internal and external environment for the attainment of
organizational or societal goals.’’ -- Ken SKC, Ogbonnia

Considering these real definitions, leaders are the roof of the companies which always
provide shadow, even in the rainy days or in the happy time. Leaders are meant to
develop and generate understanding among staff. Whether the environment is external or
internal leaders have to exploit business with vivacious leadership skills.

Leadership is based on the teamwork, every team needs a leader. Leaders are
incomplete without team and vice versa. Many heads and hands are way better than the
one, whilst concentrating on this slogan this is cleared that teams are basically flour of the
business building without flour no one can stand. Human have been started working with
the team from the childhood when play with siblings, join groups in schools, playing
different games. These all factors are realized by teamwork.

‘’The business definition of teamwork relates to the collective decision

making processes that lead to goal oriented relationships formed between all
participants.’’ --Anonymous

Normally teams are required to be self motivated and keen to achieve desired goal.
These all facets could be done with enthusiasm, measuring the motives and continuous
motivation. Leaders play golden role in developing these qualities in the staff.
Team development which is only possible with effective leadership is the key aspect
of today’s business world. Where as communication is another precious function which
helps businesses to generate more profit. Companies are keen to introduce new offers for
the staff and this ends in motivating tools.

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Leadership:
After looking at the short introduction to leadership, now this report will
determine leadership and its perspectives. Bass theory of leadership utters that there are
three main ways to understand how to become a leader, in which first two realize the
small group of people. These theories are based on headings:
1. Personality Traits: Under this function leaders are inherently playing leadership
roles in the organization, For Example an Indian Restaurant owner is illiterate
person but still owns and running the business successfully.
2. A crisis or important evens: it would cause the climb of customer towards its
profitable region. This function evaluate extraordinary qualified usually found in
such kind of ordinary leaders.
3. Choosing and learning to become user: it is possible to learn and get experience in
different firms in order to design Leadership Skills.

These three facets are the transformational Leadership theory and they are the soul of
the business now.

Leaders should have their own honorable characteristics. Their real duty is to provide
infinite self services without thinking about selfless services. Therefore Leader is the
single mainly dependable predictor of employee fulfillment in an organization. Leaders
would not want staff to obey them, they want them to follow them, and so leader should
target his position into staff’s eye. They always gets positive image in the eyes of market
as well. The first and final objective of any organization is to enhance profit, so leaders
always get trained of facing different changes and environment. They are the people who
concentrate on their own beliefs and characteristics. Leader always uses these staff
segments in order to achieve good feedback from staff and then he/she can apologize if
there is any problem and start sorting the error.

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Effective Leadership:

Hay Groups have founded 75 different key components of employee satisfaction

in 2004; there basic points are as follows:

 There should be a trust in top management and top leadership, because this is the
only reliable predictor of staff fulfillment in company.
 Leaders are working effectively if they are making staff understand the
phenomenon of overall business strategies.
 Leaders are more efficient and effective when they are explaining the way to
attain the goal and the strategic plans.
 Sharing of information within the company demands a good knowledge skill, so
in order to make effective leadership it is a quintessential way to talk and discuss
with the staff. So there will be no more anger or jealousy in the employee’s hearts
because of the equality and justice propaganda of the company.

Therefore, it is important for the leader to be trustworthy and well motivated.

Effective leader always be ready to communicate a vision of the company where this
company want to go. The goal and objectives are the main focuses of the consumer.

Principles of Leadership:
Following eleven important and authentic bullets would be delighting the word
leadership and its tactics:

1. Know yourself and seek self-improvement: it is not really easy to understand your
own feelings and self. In an interest of understanding yourself, you have
understood attributes and characteristics. This could be done through formal
classes, personnel development courses, reflection and communication with
others.
2. Be technically Strong: There should be a wide knowledge of IT in leaders
nowadays; leader is an appropriate teacher as well so he must be perfect at IT.
3. Responsibility: in order to gain more profit leader has to drive the team upward to
the new heights of success. Sometimes decisions are wrong, so mistakes occur,
due to these mistakes, try not to point out individual, and try to sort it out like a
team within responsible environment.
4. Make Sound and Timely Decisions: there are too many tools and ingredients
which could help in solving problems and facing hard time. Get ready for the
change and make appropriate strategic plans so that decision making at the right
time with the right team.
5. Set the Example: Be straight forward and polite with the staff in order to achieve
respect and dignity. ‘’ We must become the change we want to see.’’ Mahatma
Gandhi.
6. Know your people and look out for their well-being: realize and emphasis on the
characteristics of workers, as well as examine their needs with individual epitome.

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7. Keep your people Informed: leaders have control over the staff, but it doesn’t
mean they never interact with directors and managers of the company; they
should communicate with them and make reports in order to get feedbacks.
8. Develop a Sense of Responsibility: Leaders would keen to generate good
personality traits so that they can enable themselves to carry out their professional
duties and responsibilities.
9. Ensure that Tasks are understood, supervised and accomplished: Communication
is the way to drive all these tasks properly.
10. Train as a team: Teamwork is the central idea of the leadership skills, team
includes leaders as well, and they all train together with staff and work for the
same organization together to achieve desired goals and objectives.
11. Use the full capabilities of organization: Team Spirit would delight the company
with flying colors, after generating Team Spirit Company would be able to
employ itself and its department/sections to its capabilities.

Leadership Framework:

 Perfectionist
 Professional
 Factors of Leadership
 Know the Job
 Know Yourself
 Know others
 Know Human nature
 Know the company
 Know the world
 Know the business management
 Know the direction
 The Motivator
 Implementer

Factors affecting Leadership:

The four key major factors of leadership are as follows:

1. Follower: It depends on the caliber of the leaders while they are experienced
or new comer, either they motivator or not, either they understand human facts
or no, either they consider human needs or no. Thus the leader having high
level of motivation entails a different loom as compare to the leader having
low level of motivation. Be, Know and Do traits are well useful for this
function.
2. Leader: Leader must emphasize on three questions, which you are? What you
know? And what you could do? It’s the follower’s duty to resolve and reveal

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that either the leadership is successful or droop. ‘’ To be successful you have
to convince your followers, not yourself or your superiors, that you are worth
of being followed.’’—Anonymous.
3. Communication: Leader follows two way communications in which most of it
nonverbal. Remember these communications can also make misunderstanding
and misconception which could affect the companies’ profit.
4. Situation: Change is more repetitive chain, if leader knows the way out of one
situation, it is not necessary he would know about another situation. So the
decision making must be appropriate and authentic.

In the nutshell, an assortment of powers factors of leadership. In these powers; the

relationship between leader and seniors, skill of staff, informal leader and how
company is managed.

Be Know That:

Be a professional Know That

Be Loyal to the company,
always take responsibility.
Own great character traits
Honesty, candor, courage,
integrity, imagination,
commitment.
Follower, Provide Directions, problem
Leader, solutions, decision solving,
Communication, planning, goal settings.
Situation.
Strengths and weakness of Implement coordinating,
skills, knowledge and evaluating and
characteristics communication
Human needs, aims, Motivate and train, coach
emotions and stress them and make a platform
response/level
Be skillful and be
competent

Communication Importance in Leadership:

‘’No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood
others.’’
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truly said quote is describing the same illumine of communication in an

organization. It is the major rationale which could destroy the density of management.
Leadership is based on communication as well as teamwork. Motivation also takes help
from communication, because it is the chief base of motivation. Almost motivation
occurs through communication. It is a delivery and keeping process so that leaders could
deliver message and as a result feedback from staff side.

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Effective listening will occur only if the listener understood the message fully and
give feedback.

‘’Communication is essential to effective leadership. It’s often something we

take for granted and not given the attention it deserves.’’
--Saul Alansky

Communication plays vital role in leadership and teamwork functions, and many
misconceptions come forward due to the lack of effective communication. Some people
are not confident enough to deliver their proper message so that listener can listen to it
and give feedback. In interest of getting involved in training about communication,
leaders should take place special training. The huge reason for the lack of communication
is culture and different language medium. While thinking about Ireland, Polish is almost
the second language of Ireland but still in firms communication problem occurs.
Teamwork need unity, communication is the way to unite organizations or even
countries.

Teamwork development:
As this report discussed about teamwork before and it has been mentioned along
with leadership, instead of them there are some important theories and explanation about
Teamwork development. Follow chart would thoroughly explore the key idea of
Teamwork and its development:

T Employee should have Talent in the field of organization, leaders should make sure
the worker is well aware of all the work and have specific knowledge about it.
E Employee should be enthusiastic; he must know how to use and where to use his
talent. Leader should direct them towards right way.
A Leaders are not only responsible for everything; workers also have the same job to
take responsibility of their task. So Accountability is also important compulsion.
M Leader and Workers should know how to Manage the organization. How to design
the workplace and how to accomplish goals in managed way.
W Work-able means if the Employee or Leader has all the above mentioned qualities,
but not punctual or not attending shifts properly, so there is no point of strong team.
O Understanding and Opening Relationship between team members is the key facet to
work together like a friends and family. Leaders should give some time to share
feelings and enjoy friendship in order to gain trust and enhance revenues.
R Mutual Respect of everyone is the rule for any organization. In team there is differ
in age, so there should be a respect even though the position is higher or lower
respect is mandatory.
K Keenness for the work could be developed by leaders by motivating and rewards
system. In these circumstances employees will definitely get keen about there work.

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Tuckman Team Development Stages:

As all the teams pass through heterogeneous series of stages of development in a

sufficient and authentic way. Team as well has different kind of people with similar
experiences and shared tasks. Tuckman designed four stages of team development, which
has also been taken by other thinkers:

1. Forming: at the stage of forming group has just developed with the help of some
individuals. At this stage the mission of the group is to give title, composition,
leader selection and etc. Individual would like to take place roles in different
model and they are keen to join their choices field. Trust would be grown up and
new friends sharing feelings and understanding each other at workplace. So the
leader will then categorize the positions and strengths for every individual in
order to shape the TEAM.
2. Storming: Most of the groups will see the stage where individual cannot really
understanding each other, each one has own opinions, Leadership may be
challenged hugely. Some hidden points may get on to front. This stage is
formation of strong trust on each other and starts working together as united gang.
3. Norming: now the functions start and members are mature enough to make their
target finish. They are going through different experiments and norms. Members
endeavor to work along and make the job finished.
4. Performing: after the successful 3 stages, now this is the final stage which is
enabling to accomplish if any stage is missing. Production is now finally done.
Members of the team know how to work together in order to achieve produce
something.
First two stages could be sort out in meetings even, after that planning and organizing
take more time.

Project Management Group:

After receiving a confused task of arranging CULTURAL DAY in GRAFTON
COLLEGE, students get into deep theories of arranging and presenting it in front of
different people. It was 13th of October when Teacher arranged roundtable meeting
between Team Members. Before this meeting there was a stage of Forming, with loads of
complications, different ideas, unfamiliar with task, not motivated, no leader, no effective
communication and also no team development. Nobody seemed to go through the tasks
and ideas, until first roundtable conference held.

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PM Group Followed Bass’ Theory of Leadership:

Even though the base of the PM group was weak but after a conference between
members, it boosted up in all over the team members. There was a voting system that
who will become the Project Manager or Leader, after some arguments Vincent took over
this position with the oath of sincere leadership. So according to Bass’ theory, PM group
followed both important event theory and choosing/learning theory. Because eventually
he took over this seat and it was also to enhance leadership skills.

PM Group under Principles of Leadership:

Principles of Leadership PM Group Ltd.

Know yourself and seek self-improvement
Be technically Strong
Responsibility
Set the Example
Make Sound and Timely Decisions
Know your people and look out for their
well-being
Keep your people Informed
Develop a Sense of Responsibility
Ensure that Tasks are understood
Train as a team
Use the full capabilities of organization:
After Conference it was huge impact on the
Company so that they knew themselves.
As a Business and IT students, they were
great
After focusing on the real responsibility they
made it
Vincent a leader set an example with his
polite tune of talking and lavish motivation.
There was a burden of HRM assignment but
PM group attained their goal successfully
Vincent always discussed every point with all
of the members and made TEAM SPIRIT.
There was Google Group made under PM
group name in order to notify everyone.
Truly Lecturer developed this sense after long
tiring effort, resulted in hit conference.
Great communication skills played essential
part
Training given by Lecturer was enough for
PM group to design Cultural Day
On the final day PM group served more 40
people in 2 hours time.

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PM Group in Communication Zone:

The successful day 10th of November 2009 came and delighted the college up.
The day was colorful with different food from different countries, though people from
another countries were visiting it was hard to explain them in English about food and
stuff. But communication between the TEAM was highly appreciated by lecturer and
other staff visitors. Personnel Manager Abita made a good communicational speech on
her country.

PM Group under Team Development Area:

 Talent Team has talent so attain success.

High Enthusiasm, talent is nothing if there is no team.
 Enthusiasm Every Member was responsible for each and every area.
 Accountability Team was highly managed.
 Management There is a weakness in team due to Work-able.
 Work-able Team members were frank enough to work together.
 Openness Mutual Respect for everyone is PM Group’s Slogan.
Keenness towards task developed late.
 Respect
 Keenness

PM Group under the TUCKMAN Model:

1. Forming: the forming period for PM group was really hard, there was
undeveloped and unfamiliar team. No concept of the task. Lake of script of the
mission. Soon after conference, Group went through Forming stage successfully.
But there was some argument by some members there ideas were not matching.
And same about positions, some members weren’t satisfied. Soon after voting
system everyone got date of the cultural day, leader and positions/tasks.
2. Storming: it was same situation so formation and storming stages occur together
after 2nd conference.
3. Norming: after that Group jump into norming stage and there was high
relationship between members and leader. Team identity came into existence at
this stage:
a. Abita Baral: HRM manager.
b. Neerajan: Market Segmentation Manager
c. Tom Adarsh: Producer and production Manager
d. Bruno: Finance Manager
e. Zain Uddin: Marketing Manager and Team assistant
f. Vincent: Project Manager

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Conclusion:
The report consists of all the core topics about leadership and Teamwork
Development with the strong Cultural Day case study. The reason of the Cultural day
seems to develop Leadership skills and modify teamwork skills in the students. After
generating this report and arranging Cultural day, there is a huge difference in skills, they
enhanced like revolution. As report shows good leaders are the roof of the organization,
the overview of different principles of leadership and implementing them on PM Group
is quit reasonable here. After drawing all the attention towards Tucman’s model it was
crystal clear that there are too many skills and the team is able to design big projects now.
As budget control was also the part of the PM group.

Recommendations:

 Leaders need to be like the shadow for the company, with polite and relax
attitude.
 There should be respect among staff and leader.
 The concept of leadership could be more explore with respect to the motivation
aspects.
 There is a chance of getting strong leader if all the workers are sincere and noble.
 Most of the misconception occurs during arranging groups, that doesn’t mean to
leave the task. Leaders should motivate members.
 Cultural Impacts, Language difference and communicational errors can be
removed by proper training.
 In order to progress the team it is important to make strategy first.

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Bibliography:

Hyperlinks:
 Image 1: 25th November 2009; 11 AM
http://managementcraft.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/leadership_1.j
pg
 25th November 2009; 11 AM
http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/leader/leadcom.html
http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html
http://www.thepracticeofleadership.net/2009/04/26/no-communication-
no-leadership
 26th November 2009; 11 AM
http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2005/5/9/6363/69190#bro_copy

Books:
• Northouse (2006), Leadership theory and practice, 4th edition, Saga
Publications
• Extract from putting children first, the newsletter of the national
childcare Accreditation Council. Building and supporting teamwork,
December 2006
• Marilyn B. Cole ( 2005), Group Dynamic in Occupational Therapy,
3r edition.
• Laurie J. Mullins (2006), Essentials of Organizational behaviour,
Vango notes

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