JEFFERY D WHIPPO DISCUSSES THREE CRITICAL FUNCTIONS FOR TEAM LEADERSHIP
Jeffery D Whippo Explains What TLM (Team Leadership Model) Is • Jeffery
D 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, as described by him, 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.
Three Critical Functions for Team Leadership, According To Jeffery D Whippo • Within
the TLM model, Jeffery D Whippo describes three critical functions for team leadership which are - Dream, Design and Develop.
• He
explains 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.
Jeffery Describes the Dream and Design Functions for Team Leadership • Jeffery
says that in order to establish an effective team, a leader must first set the directions for the team, this is the Dream function.
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to him, highly effective teams need a vision and leaders can use everything from imagery to metaphors to allow the followers to visualize the mission.
• Furthermore he explains that a 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).
• He
says that these inputs compromise the Design function and allow the creation of the team tasks, composition, and set norms.
Jeffery Explains What the Final Function i.e. ‘Development’ Entails • Jeffery 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.
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is within this function, Jeff confers, where processes and procedures are developed and monitored in order to drive continuous growth and improvement of the team.
• Whippo
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.
THANK YOU JEFFERY D WHIPPO