Effective team leadership and management makes a team efficient. Leading and managing project teams is a delicate balance; it requires the full utilization of the team’s potential without overwhelming the team. You have to lead and manage your project teams to improve continuously so that the teams can deliver the desired results.
Kissflow has published an article that proposes dynamic strategies to lead and manage project teams; the strategies are directed to leaders and managers to lead their team by example and groom future team leaders.
The following strategies can help you lead and manage project teams effectively:
- Create and keep up effective communication, balance, visibility, and transparency within the team.
- Manage internal conflicts, settle miscommunication, and lead project teams to deliver timely and the expected results.
- Recognize, acknowledge, and value suggestions.
- Discuss progress with your team members.
- Be receptive to feedback and take the necessary actions based on the feedback.
- Establish success metrics and reward high-performing team members accordingly.
- Foster collaboration by establishing it as a culture.
- Groom future leaders and delegate applicable and doable tasks to them.
- Fully use all the available resources at your disposal to facilitate efficient and high functioning teamwork.
- Participate in scheduled and regular team building activities and affirmative celebrations.
Use technology to implement the above strategies for heightened efficacy and unmatched convenience. Rethink cross-platform tools that can help you phase in the aforementioned strategies when leading and managing project teams, keeping in mind that continuous team members’ motivation is of primacy.
The roles and responsibilities of a project team must be defined before the strategies to lead project teams are implemented. You must also bear in mind that a project team contains people with different levels of authority. So, you must understand their way of operation which relies on the organizational culture and applied methodology.
There are several leadership styles to lead project teams; run a SWOT analysis on each leadership style and decide what fits you best as the team leader and manager. Team leaders and managers can enroll in eCornell’s Project Leadership program to manage and lead their project teams with maximum competency.
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