The Poetic Nature of Leading Others: An Evaluation of Organizational Relationships, Team Communication, and Leader Experience
The Poetic Nature of Leading Others: An Evaluation of Organizational Relationships, Team Communication, and Leader Experience
Morgan A. Wells | 2020
Abstract
The relationship between organizational leaders and employees can flourish because of common knowledge, shared communications, and a leader’s experience level. Leaders and followers develop interpersonal connections and drive productive behaviors in the workplace. Organizational cultures offer a professional environment unique to a home or social setting. Leaders in this setting make decisions that influence employees across the entire organizational platform. Stakeholders contribute to the culture of their workplace in how they interact with others to share information. Understanding various system thinking perspectives of leaders can assist followers. Leaders should assist followers to motivate progress through their organizational journey. Leaders can integrate specific leadership strategies that aim to improve collaborative techniques. Engaging leaders prove to encourage diversely-talented, communicative teams. These positive results correlate with an increase of attention to sharing language and experiences.
As a writer’s poetic nature is displayed as they approach the design of their prose, a leader must encourage their team. A goal to improve the utilization of cross-collaboration and communication skills happens from strategic planning and elevated project management techniques. Such techniques should include planned goals to improve team performance and ways leaders can incorporate interactive communication systems with a collaborative mindset.
The purpose of this manuscript is to review organizational management literature and develop a framework for leaders to utilize interpersonal communication strategies to approach project collaboration. Through leadership and communication theory research, a Team Workmanship model emerged. This Team Workmanship model demonstrates how the “Whole Table Approach” effectively facilitates leader learning for the betterment of team communication skills-building and performance management. This manuscript will explore organizational relationships and team communication as they relate to a leader’s demonstrated experience. This document will illustrate lessons from leadership-focused poetic works to help readers impact their leader strategy within their organizational cultures. When finished reading this manuscript, leaders will understand the benefit of utilizing the Team Workmanship theory and the Whole Table Approach to practice team consulting or to improve team performance in any organizational culture. Lastly, leaders should utilize this manuscript to reflect on their current strategy and design new organizational plans to allow for the success this theory promises.
KEYWORDS: Organizational culture, leader-follower relationships; communication; interaction, team performance, leadership experience, collaboration, consulting.