MANUAL TEAMWORK, LEADERSHIP AND NEGOTIATION

TEAMWORK, LEADERSHIP AND NEGOTIATION

4. L eading and coordinating team

When it comes to leading, coordinating or managing teams, it is possible to ask oneself certain questions such as: What competencies should I possess or develop? Are there strategies, skills, attitudes that can optimise the leadership process? How can I lead a successful team? We are going to establish guidelines and advice that can help to take certain attitudes within the leadership process, to develop skills to lead a team, focusing above all on the people who make up the team. 1. Appreciate the nature of leadership. 2. Identify the management style of a team. 3. Analyse each of the management functions to be taken into account when leading a team. 4. Analyse what kind of competences the person in charge of managing a team needs to have. 5. Assess some attitudes and skills that can help us to take care of interpersonal relationships within the team. 6. Analyse the steps to be followed in a communicative process. 7. Analyse a number of skills that can help us to communicate more effectively. 8. To value personal and relational aspects that favour the tasks of good leadership. The fictitious situations presented here are intended to be a reflection of a possible working environment based on teamwork. Above all, the aim is to promote the capacity for reflection and to focus on aspects such as attitudes, the skills that come into play and try to transfer them to a real scenario. It is not just about facts; our aim is to focus on attitudes. Objectives:

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