Team leader performance

Team leader performance plays a pivotal role in managing teams and groups. Higher performance of your manager means that your team is well managed. Conversely, if the team leader shows lower performance, the entire team is likely to suffer from reduced motivation, poor leadership and lack of guidance. That’s why, for senior management it is strongly recommended to make reviews on a regular basis in order to determine if there is a significant gap between expected performance and planned performance.

What factors do influence performance rate? There are two key factors, as follows below:

• A team leader’s openness in communication with team members.
• Team members’ satisfaction with their leader.

Team leader achievements and behaviors are closely linked to the factors. If a team leader is open in communication with his/her subordinates and understands how to efficiently resolve group conflicts, he/she achieves higher performance and the entire manager becomes more satisfied with this achievement. By means of task management software, the manager can create performance indicators and metrics that will help keep track of current performance rate. Senior management can use such software to develop independent KPIs and review collaborative levels on a regular basis.

Group leaders usually perform a range of managerial tasks and duties depending on the type of teams they are responsible for. For example, a typical team leader role includes several key tasks for managing:

• Daily planning of collaborative jobs and assignments.
• Operation and problem-solving.
• Supervising activities.
• Group communication and collaboration.
• Training and coaching.

With help of task management software team leaders can do these tasks. Such software allows using to-do lists, schedules and templates to plan daily jobs of group members, track operations, and also share duties and responsibilities between team leader supervisors and assistants. Task management software lets establish real-time communication between several users who can collaborate with each other and exchange feedback with team leaders.

VIP Task Manager is a good example of task management software for group collaboration. VIP Task Manager helps group leaders and members to plan, do, track and report daily tasks and assignments. As a team leader you can use the software to measure your team leader effectiveness and productivity. For example, the software features the Custom Fields functionality that lets make various team leader KPIs and productivity metrics to help you measure group performance rates and determine whether you reach your team leader goals.

VIP Task Manager supports multi-user collaboration allowing users to share information in real-time mode. This capability helps you communicate with your team members and exchange feedback. It also lets you send status of your team leader responsibilities and tasks to senior management. The Custom Fields functionality will help senior management make specific team leader criteria and measures to define your effectiveness and determine whether you approach your team leader target (you can use this Customization Guide to learn more on this point).