Thumbs down for 'Command and Control' Leadership Style
FACILITATION SKILL for LEADERS A WAY FORWARD
Heads of departments, team
leaders and heads of task-force need to modify their leadership style if they wish to build a strong and effective team.
One
aspect of leadership they need to adjust and rebalanced is the
conventional 'command and control' style. This style is no longer
effective in building a dynamic team.
The plus factor for effective leadership today is those leader who has a 'Facilitation Skill'.
Such
leader is not only good in giving orders but very skillful in
facilitating and motivating for the development of a strong and
effective team. Such leader stands better chance to have a capable and competent team in taking up huge and challenging task such as in implementing policy directive or project.
These were the core objectives of a three-day Workshop on “Facilitation Skills for Leaders” organized by the Civil Service Institute (IPA) Brunei.
PPP Ilmu Alim, a local management consultancy firm has been assigned to run the three-day workshop.
To meet the objective, PPP Ilmu Alim has introduced a “Visuals and Graphics” methodology, tools and templates to transfer the
skills in how to facilitate the creation of a team environment that would be aligned and
oriented towards a common objectives, a team strengthened with collaborative and cooperative
relationship, a team that has the capacity, competency, and united in their commitment to achieve results.
These “Graphics and Maps”
have been in use by International Consultants. There are “Roadmaps”, “Planning
Charts” “ Strategy Mappings” “Task and Scope” matrix, “SWOT Analysis Grids” and
many more techniques to facilitate the acceleration of
the learning process.
These “Visuals” will simulate the experience and
anticipate the challenges in the implementation of plans, projects and policies.
The
workshop participants have benefited and appreciated these “Visuals”
stated Dato Malai Ali the Principal Consultant for PPP IlmuAlim.
The “Visuals” have made it clear to them of their roles as Project Team Leader particularly their roles in facilitating and leading a
team through processes towards agreed-upon objectives in a manner that
encourages participation and involvement, ownership and creativity from all
involved.
By utilising the “Process Maps” and “Analysis Grids”, group leader and task force chairman will have clear vision of their roles.
Their role is not only to
solve problems and deliver results. FIRST and foremost, their big challenge is to facilitate positive relationship among the team members. They need to facilitate to
develop the team and group capacity to
plan, to solve problems collaboratively and collectively.
The visual tools will also assist them in facilitating collaborations and cooperation among team
members. Importantly the “Visual Tools’ will help them channel the “energy” and
manage the “group dynamics” to achieve results.
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