Today\'s complex organizations often require the smooth, integrated functioning

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Today's complex organizations often require the smooth, integrated functioning of teams across several functional areas. Leading of a team of diverse individuals is quite a challenge. Encouraging the effective collaboration of multiple teams of diverse individuals is even more challenging and requires skilled leaders who can understand and impart organizational vision to team members. Skilled leaders must also foster leadership skills in others to achieve collaboration and organizational success. Imagine yourself in the complex situation of ensuring the integrated functioning of multiple teams. How prepared are you for such a challenge? What knowledge and skills will you need to acquire on your own leadership development journey to successfully prepare for such a challenge?

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Question: Today's complex organizations often require the smooth, integrated functioning of teams across several functional areas. Leading of a team of diverse individuals is quite a challenge. Encouraging the effective collaboration of multiple teams of diverse individuals is even more challenging and requires skilled leaders who can understand and impart organizational vision to team members. Skilled leaders must also foster leadership skills in others to achieve collaboration and organizational success. Imagine yourself in the complex situation of ensuring the integrated functioning of multiple teams. How prepared are you for such a challenge? What knowledge and skills will you need to acquire on your own leadership development journey to successfully prepare for such a challenge?

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Answer: The question needs little more clarity and specifications. It includes a set of at least 3-4 different questions which is confusing. There cannot be a single answer to this whole set. Your questions leadership skills requirement for managing in complex organizations for managing multiple teams across functions in a an integrated manner, leadership skills required for managing teams composed of people with different skills, leadership skills for imparting teams organizational visions, and leadership skills for developing next generation of leaders. Except some overlaps all of these challenges would require different sets of leadership knowledge and skills therefore let us focus upon any one.

‘Integrated functioning of teams across several functional areas’

When a leader has multiple team to work with one of the key issue is to develop a common mental model and vision. Teams from different departments are known to have different perspective, values, objectives, and standards, which get imbibed into their members due to their socialization into receptive departments. For example production department employees would value efficiency, speed, and quality of products; marketing want highest levels of customization of products according to customer requirements, human resource department would value maintenance of employees, employee satisfaction to avoid turnover, employee training and development etc.. Due to differences in perspectives and value of teams from different departments, they are often in conflict with each other and they find it difficult to work in harmony.

Leader’s major challenge is to reduce the conflict and maintain high level of coordination among these teams. One important skill the leader would need is to effective communication of common organization vision and framing his communications to each department in their terms.

Second important leadership skills is conflict management which in particular constitutes appropriate use of power and authority, negotiation, bargaining, extending concessions, and highlighting commonality of goals, creating obligations and person networks across the departments. All these skills will be helpful in different situations for the leader while managing coordination among teams from different functional departments.    

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