Among many others, a good leader should have these qualities:
Lead with a clear purpose
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The goals of the understood by all team members. |
Empower members to participate |
Every member should participate in setting and achieving goals for the teams. Brainstorming is good for coming up with ideas. |
Aim for a consensus
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All members should come to a resolution. Persuasion is important in pursuing the goal. |
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Direct the process |
Only direct the process not the individual. |
It is important for teams to have leaders because leaders are needed to guide the team through the processes of project management. These processes can be very difficult if everyone isn’t working together under some type of unifying cause. A leader makes this cause clear to all team members involved. Leaders help members understand their role in the team and how their roles can affect the whole team and project. Without guidance a team can go nowhere fast. It is part of a leader’s responsibility to initiate, offer tasks, seek information, coordinate summarizing, and test reality (Tech 496 packet). These tasks are amongst many others needed to keep a team functioning. Anyone in a project can take on a leadership role at any given time. A leader is there to find and develop a vision for the project team to partake in. So the main purpose of a leader is to initiate tasks, and to get the team interested and involved to perform those tasks.