Team Management Skills

Team Management Skills

Team Management Skills

Introduction

In this review, I will explain how strategic planning will help change the culture of the team and how I lead the team will be pivotal in securing an improvement in performance. Firstly, I will be considering the benefits and problems of allowing strategic leadership and management to deal with the current problems of service quality, managing a team and organisational culture. I will explore and identify and distinguish factors associated with strategic leadership and management such as the external, and internal that informs the development of strategic management in public services. The implications of a new strategic plan and leadership style will also be taken into account. Furthermore, I will also discuss the appropriate management styles to be adopted in order to turn round a poor performing team. The team will have a major role to play in this new strategic plan, as they would 'own' the strategic aims and objectives to the best of their ability.

Analysis The leisure centre is a public service organisation (PSO). A PSO is a service, which is provided by the government and funded by taxation. I am now going to talk about the importance of strategic management in PSOs and the associated advantages. Strategic Management is the art of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross- functional decisions that will enable an organisation to achieve its objectives. (Blakemore, K. 2003, 'Social Policy An Introduction, Second Edition, Open University Press, pp 273.) Prior to implementing a strategic plan there are many issues to consider.

A new strategic plan has to be implemented as today's environment it is nearly impossible to forecast demand and predict certain changes. In the year 2000, Gary Hamel, a founder of a management-consulting firm called Strategos believed that all strategies no matter how strong they are will lose its affect over time. I agree with this notion because the nature of the public service organisations will become routine as time progresses and become pejorative. Once, the strategic plan has achieved its objectives or the leaders believe they have taken it as far as they can, in order to move forward the process of a new strategic plan should take place. The success of the business can't go forward and hence stays at a standstill. The new plan should eliminate or if not reduce the current problems. A strategic plan is vital as it gives a public sector organisation a sense of direction and to see how well they are doing their job. (Whitemore, R. 1984, 'Modelling the policy/implementation distinction.' Policy and Politics, 12 (3) pp.240-3.) The problem with a strategic plan however is that the issue of financial muscle and whether or not it is available to implement the new strategic plan. For example, the new strategic plan could involve training the members of the team, is the finance available for that?

The continuous change and turbulence that public sector organisations have to deal with revolves around alterations in the external, and internal (organisation) ...