please either create or find an existing activity that teaches about teamwork. It can be a pre-built assessment you find online, or something you experienced in another class and found value in. The purpose is for you to "lead" your classmates through the exercise and to explain how it relates to the topic for chapter 9. Organizational Leadership.

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Developing teamwork is such an important leadership role that team building is said to differentiate successful from unsuccessful leaders. Furthermore, leaders with a reputation as teamwork builders are often in demand. A team is a work group that must rely on collaboration if each member is to experience the optimum success and achievement. Teamwork is an understanding and commitment to group goals on the part of all team members.

All teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. ... Think about that for a moment. Groups and teams are NOT synonymous. As a refresher, teams typically go through several stages: Forming Storming Norming Performing Teams need effective leadership to stay on course, especially when they are in the forming stage. Some of the key roles of a leader in a team-based organization include: Building trust and inspiring teamwork Coaching toward higher levels of performance Facilitating and supporting the teams decisions Expanding the teams capabilities Creating a team identity Anticipating and influencing change Inspiring the team toward higher levels of performance Enabling and empowering group members to accomplish their work Encouraging team members to eliminate low-value work. When the leader is not a member of the team, he or she is classified as an external leader. Fostering teamwork is a major factor for the success of teams. Inspirational leaders, as well as less charismatic ones, can encourage teamwork through certain actions and attitudes. The actions can be divided into those leaders can take using their own resources (informal techniques) and those actions that generally require organization structure or policy (formal techniques).

Informal techniques defining the team's mission establishing a climate of trust developing a norm of teamwork based on cooperation theory develop group emotional intelligence emphasize pride in being outstanding and contributing to success serve as a model of teamwork, including power sharing and collective leadership among team members use a consensus leadership style establish urgency set high performance standards provide direction and support encourage competition with another team engage in ample interaction with the team provide positive feedback minimize micromanagement of the team practice e-leadership for virtual teams the focus of leadership in this case shifts from individuals to networks of relationships an example might include establishing chat rooms or Microsoft Teams channels to solicit opinions before a final decision is made videoconferencing enables more success with virtual teams

Formal techniques design physical structures that facilitate open communication emphasize group recognition and rewards initiate ceremonial opportunities to help members bond practice open-book management every employee is trained, empowered, and motivated to understand and pursue the business goals employees are treated more like business partners hire and select team-oriented employees to join your team use technology that enhances teamwork and collaboration blend representatives from domestic and foreign locations on the same team The leader-member exchange model developed by George Graen and associates helps explain why one subgroup in a unit is part of a cohesive team and another group is excluded. The leader-member exchange model (LMX) proposes that leaders develop unique working relationships with group members.

One subset of employees, the in-group, is given additional rewards, responsibility, and trust in exchange for their loyalty and performance. The in-group becomes part of a smoothly functioning team headed by the formal leader. Out-group members are less likely to experience good teamwork.