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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
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