Jeffery David Whippo Discusses In Detail the TLM (Team Leadership Model) Model

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Jeffery David Whippo Discusses In Detail the TLM
(Team Leadership Model) Model
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Jeffery Whippo Explains What TLM Is

• Jeffery David Whippo, a well-educated leader of
  teams and people, feels that team effectiveness
  can be best understood in terms of inputs,
  processes, and outcomes.
• He says that by identifying certain process
  problems in teams, leaders can use the TLM (Team
  Leadership Model) model to diagnose appropriate
  leverage points for action.
• The TLM, he explains, is a mechanism to help
  identify what a team needs, to be effective and
  points the leader either toward roadblocks or
  toward ways to make the team even more effective
  than it already is.
• Within the TLM model, there are three critical
  functions for team leadership which are Dream,
  Design and Develop.

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Jeffery Discusses the Dream Function

• Jeffery David Whippo says that in TLM, the major
  leadership functions of Dream, Design and
  Development are applied through inputs and
  context.
• Achieving team effectiveness, he implies,
  requires paying attention to all three of these
  critical team leadership functions.
• In order to establish an effective team, a leader
  must first set the directions for the team, this
  is the Dream function. According to Jeff highly
  effective teams need a vision and leaders can use
  everything from imagery to metaphors to allow the
  followers to visualize the mission.

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Jeffery Discusses the Design Function

• Furthermore Whippo explains, the leader must take
  into consideration all organizational inputs
  (reward systems, education systems, information
  systems), team inputs and individual inputs
  (interests and motivations, skills and abilities,
  values and attitudes).
• Jeff says that these inputs compromise the Design
  function and allow the creation of the team
  tasks, composition, and set norms.
• He says that senior leaders in organizations may
  have a vested interest in avoiding or resisting
  changing the organization and maintaining the
  status quo because they are afraid to rock the
  boat as hes seen in previous companies.
• This is one of the main obstacles that have to be
  overcome by individual team leaders in driving
  positive and adaptive change within the
  organization.

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What Happens Within The Development Leadership
Function?

• Accordingly, Jeff Whippo explains that once the
  direction is set and the organizational and
  individual inputs drive the team Design, process
  criteria are developed such as effort, knowledge
  and skills, and strategy which result in the
  Development leadership function.
• It is within this function, Jeff confers, where
  processes and procedures are continually
  developed and monitored in order to drive
  continuous growth and improvement of the team.
• Furthermore, he strongly feels that the
  development of the team must be continuous in
  order to ensure that the team is well trained,
  developed and set up for continuous improvement.

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Thank YouJeffery David Whippo