TEAM LEADER RESPONSIBILITIES

 

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Provide team leadership and coaching

• Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort
  
  
• Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives
  
  
• Motivate and inspire team members
  
  
• Lead by setting a good example (role model) - behavior consistent with words
  
  
• Coach and help develop team members; help resolve dysfunctional behavior
  
  
• Facilitate problem solving and collaboration
  
  
• Strive for team consensus and win-win agreements
  
  
• Ensure discussions and decisions lead toward closure
  
  
• Maintain healthy group dynamics
  
  
• Intervene when necessary to aid the group in resolving issues
  
  
• Assure that the team members have the necessary education and training to effectively participate on the team
  
  
• Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement
  
  
• Recognize and celebrate team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance

Focus the team on the tasks at hand or the internal and external customer requirements

• Coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary
  
  
• Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance
  
  
• Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards
  
  
• Provide necessary business information
  
  
• Serve as meeting manager or chairman
  
  
• Initiate sub-groups or sub-teams as appropriate to resolve issues and perform tasks in parallel
  
  
• Ensure deliverables are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, cost and schedule
  
  
• Help keep the team focused and on track

Coordinate team logistics

• Work with functional managers and the team sponsor to obtain necessary resources to support the team's requirements
  
  
• Obtain and coordinate space, furniture, equipment, and communication lines for team members
  
  
• Establish meeting times, places and agendas
  
  
• Coordinate the review, presentation and release of design layouts, drawings, analysis and other documentation
  
  
• Coordinates meetings with the product committee, project manager and functional management to discuss project impediments, needed resources or issues/delays in completing the task

Communicate team status, task accomplishment, and direction

• Provide status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule
  
  
• Keep the project manager and product committee informed of task accomplishment, issues and status
  
  
• Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams
  
  
• Escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team
  
  
• Provide guidance to the team based on management direction