Leadership Skills

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Leadership Skills
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Team Meetings

• Set the agenda by defining goals and desired
  outcomes
• Keep the meeting on task
• Brainstorm ideas
• Resolve differences by consensus
• Assign follow-up tasks and items
• Evaluate the session and end on time

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Brainstorming to generate ideas

• Define the problem
• Set the ground rules
• Treat participants with respect
• All ideas have value
• No debate or discussion of ideas
• Document ideas

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Reaching Consensus

• Consensus is a decision in which everyone
  participates and everyone can live with and
  support.
• Develop criteria for the decision
• Find areas of common agreement
• Develop a consensus proposal
• Ask for a show of consensus

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Conflict is okay if managed!

• Conflict is essential to critical thinking
  because members must feel the freedom to differ
• Manage constructively
• Use ground rules
• Acknowledge differences as they occur
• Look for common ground and identify alternatives
• Resolve quickly by consensus

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Team-building process

• Forming - members learn their roles
• Storming members understand their differences
  often with conflict and disagreement
• Norming members recognize common interests
  and goals
• Performing members work productively to
  achieve their goals
• Adjourning members celebrate accomplishments