Element 2: Leading your team
Welcome to Element Two
To lead your team effectively you need to be proactive. A great leader needs to support team members to succeed. The most effective leader builds their relationships on the foundation of trust and loyalty, rather than fear or the power of their positions.
We all work with others to get our work done and delivery great health and care, and often we will be working within an immediate team and increasingly across teams as part of matrix working. As delivering services becomes more complex we will need to develop our team and collaborative leadership skills to work in new ways, communicate more effectively and lead others outside our immediate teams.
The Aims of Element Two are
Leaders and Managers are expected to be able to demonstrate:
- A clear service/team vision and objectives with outcomes and timescales
- Key messages are understood and disseminated to your team
- Responsibility for ensuring the completion of your teams annual Personal Development Reviews and recorded on Employee Staff Record (ESR) and contractual changes
- Team meetings held regularly, ideally monthly, depending on specific service requirements
- Regular and meaningful 1:2:1’s, reflective practice and supervisions (where appropriate)
- The appropriate management of performance under the organisation performance management and absence policy
- Create a culture where all colleagues feel valued
- Assurance that no one is unlawfully discriminated against
In this Element you will explore:
- Understanding and Valuing difference
- Values Based Recruitment and management
- Leading teams – distributed leadership
- Motivation
- Effective communication styles
- Managing conflict
Our job as leaders is to create the environment for our people to be at their best, and give of their best. Our role as leaders is to enable and create more leaders