Maximizing your team

Maximizing your team:

To be a good leader,you must be able to harness the powers of your team members and lead them to achieving their full potentials. Now let's look at what makes a great leadership team.

Each team member has his own unique strengths,but the most cohesive and successful teams possess broader groupings of strengths. As a leader distinct domain of leadership strengths include: Executing, influencing, relationship building and strategic thinking. These categories are general and broad for the type of strengths leaders can possess. They can be used to measure how leaders can contribute positively to the team. Even as it is categorized as leadership strengths, these four categories should be found in a team in order for it to be successful. It is not compulsory it should be found in only one individual,as individuals have distinct strengths and abilities, but the team as a whole should be well represented in these four categories.

Executing: it is the carrying out of plans successfully or making things happen. Leaders with dominant strength here know how to make things happen. Some of the characteristics a leader who is strong in executing should have include: 

1) Should be an high achiever

2) Should be consistent in work and performance

3) Should be deliberative

4) Should be discipline

5) Should have focus

6) Should be responsible

7) Should be restorative

Influencing: Influencing is the ability to persuade people to do your bidings, or to sway the decisions people make to your own way. A leader who leads by influencing help their team reach a more broader audience. People with strength in this domain give a wider exposure to the goods or services of the team, they sell the team's ideas inside and outside the organization and they speak and make sure the group is heard. Some of the characteristics of leaders that have this strength include:

1) Activator

2) Communicator

3) Command

4) Competition

5) individualization

6) Self - Assurance

Relationship Building : Leaders should be possess this strength I order to bring the team together and get them working to the maximum potential. Without this strengths on a team, in many cases, the group is simply a composite of individuals. Leaders with the exceptional strength of relationship building have the unique ability to create groups and organizations that are much greater than the sum of their parts.

the characteristics of leaders that have this strength include:

1) Adaptability

2) Empathy

3) Includer

4) Harmony

5) individualization

6) Positivity

Strategic thinking: Leaders with strategic thinking as their strength look at the big picture, they think about the future, they are constantly absorbing and analyzing information and helping the team make better decisions. Within this domain,a leader strong in strategic thinking might explain how past events influenced present circumstances or navigate the best route for future possibilities. Characteristics of Leaders with this strength include:

a) They are analytical

b) They are futuristic

c) They have intellectual abilities

d) They love to learn

e) They are strategic