TEAM BUILDING AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS By PROFESSOR M. U. ILOEJE www.profmikeiloeje.com

TEAM BUILDING AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS A PAPER DELIVERED BY PROF. M. U. ILOEJE AT AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF OFFICE ADMINISTRATION, LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION, PROCESSES AND PRACTICES. AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI, NIGERIA 13 – 14 SEPTEMBER, 2016

OUTLINE TEAM BUILDING Concept What Is Team Building Definition and Meaning Four Approaches To Team Building Team Building In Office Administration LEADERSHIP SKILLS What Is Leadership An Effective Leader Leadership In Office Administration Leader versus Manager DEPLOYING LEADERSHIP SKILLS & TEAM BUILDING IN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

THE CONCEPT OF TEAM BUILDING It is often said that if you want to arrive fast, you should walk alone; but if you want to arrive far, you should do it in a team. The truth is that few people are self sufficient, especially when the target is one of high impact and big objective. We should work in teams. Team Building is a collective term for various types of activities used to enhance social relations; define roles within teams; and improve interpersonal relations. It involves collaborative tasks.

WHAT IS TEAM BUILDING Team Building generally refers to the concept of organizing groups of employees into manageable units for various purposes. Team Building refers to various activities/steps undertaken to mould together a team of employees and motivate the team members and increase the overall performance of the team. It helps a group work together more effectively for the common good, in pursuit of a common goal

TEAM BUILDING: Definition And Meaning A philosophy of job design in which employees are viewed as members of interdependent teams, instead of as individual workers. Ability to identify and motivate individual employees to form a TEAM that stays together, works together, and achieves together

FOUR APPROACHES TO TEAM BUILDING Goal Setting Role Clarification Problem Solving Inter-personal Relation

TEAM BUILDING IN OFFICE ADMINISTRATION In office administration, Team Building is the best approach to improving performance and efficiency In an office setting such as in a Univ Dept or Faculty, a corporate team refers to a group of employees who work towards a common goal/objective

HOW DO YOU BUILD A TEAM How do you achieve a good working way with a group of different people ? Let me offer ten steps

I SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING TEN STEPS The boss creates the team Know your team members Communicate accurately and un-ambiguosly Accept and support one another Check for understanding Share ideas and understanding Check for agreement Resolve conflicts quickly and constructively Agree on the goal/achievement Share the success together

GOOD TEAM BUILDING With good Team Building skills, you can unite employees around a common goal and generate greater productivity. Without them, you limit yourself and the staff to the solo effort each individual can make alone

LEADERSHIP SKILLS Leadership skills are an essential component in positioning executives to make thoughtful decisions about their organization’s mission and goals, and properly allocate resources to achieve those directives. Leadership skills include the ability to delegate, inspire, and communicate effectively Leadership skills make maximum use of the practice of devolution of powers and delegation of responsibilities.

WHAT IS LEADERSHIP Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it….(Dwight D. Eisenhower) Leaders are people who do the right thing; but managers are people who do things right…(Prof Warren G. Bennis) Leaders help themselves and others to do the right thing. They set the direction, build an inspiring vision, and create something new. Leadership is about mapping out where you need to go; to inspire and mould individuals into a team; and make them win as a team. While leaders set the vision, the mission and the direction, they must also use management skills to guide their people to the right destination, in a smooth and efficient way.

AN EFFECTIVE LEADER Creates an inspiring vision of the future. Inspires and motivates people to engage in that vision. Manages the delivery/actualization of that vision. Coaches and builds a team so that it is most effective in achieving the vision.

LEADERS versus MANAGERS The word leader is often used incorrectly to describe people who are actually managers. These managers may be highly skilled, good at their jobs, and very valuable to their organizations, but that just makes them excellent managers, not leaders. Leaders think and act strategically in a visionary way Managers act tactically, follow routine to get things done efficiently. They administer. Typically, a leader is concerned with the entirety of his institution over time; managers are concerned with how best to routinely manage and administer the day-to-day running of the institution.

In the universities we often confuse the term management with leadership, to the detriment of both Leadership is knowing where to go; management is knowing how to get there. Leadership is setting the desirable objectives and vision; management is administering efficient methods of achieving these objectives. Leadership is visionary, charismatic, idealistic; management is analytical, quantitative and pragmatic. Management tools are reproducible, exportable, and administratively demonstrable; leadership skills are unique and innate

However, managers & leaders have certain things in common However, managers & leaders have certain things in common. They do not gaze at each other across an unfathomable abyss Indeed, they walk the same road and shoulder complimentary and congruent responsibilities. The manager asks the leader “what are your objectives; what are your long term destination; how would you know if you have achieved your objectives; how far into the future are you concerned about your institution….? The partial answers to these difficult questions, mixed with institutional data, and a knowledge of academic disciplines form the substance of university management; either at the Deanship, Directorship, HOD or Coordinator level “ Pro bono publico” and “stritu sensu”; in the university, a successful Vice Chancellorship is an embodiment of all the above: a leader, a team builder and a manager

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