In: Operations Management
The time I recall influencing and applying the leadership strategies on others was the time when I was appointed as the team leader by my teacher to lead a team of 4 students for a project based assignment. The college authorities assigned me the powers to lead the team as I would be held accountable for all the work being performed or not. To make my team understand the goals and importance of the deadline, I effectively planned the duties and assigned work to each one of them individually on equal basis on the first day only. I tried communicating everyday with them through calls or messages having a direct report regarding what work they have achieved till now and how they could make their work better. I would integrate the efforts of all of them effectively by weekly planning a meeting where we all could discuss what work we have so far and how we can make it better. I asked them for their advice, recommendations and how they can create and innovate this project. I effectively channelised the meaning of team work and thus, we completed our one month project effectively two days before the deadline for which our teachers gave us more marks or incentives for the qualitative and effective work we performed.