Leadership Styles

What is teamwork? Teamwork can be defined many different ways, however, this writer found the definition from Answers.com to be most accurate. Answers.com defined teamwork as the cooperative effort by the members of a group or team to achieve a common goal. There are 17 indisputable laws of teamwork as defined by John Maxwell. This paper is intended to describe a team experience of this writer and how some of the laws of teamwork were used. This writer chose to use three of those laws, which are Law of the Edge, Law of Mount Everest, and Law of Communication.

The Law of the Edge is described as the difference between two equally talented teams is leadership; a good leader can bring a team to success, provided values; work ethic and vision are in place. This writer is a member of a team that is working to build databases for electronic charting for the hospital. This team has a leader that is prompt in responding to questions and offers wonderful guidance. The Law of Edge states that a leader should be the person with greater skill, experience, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.

The second law that this writer wants to discuss is The Law of Mount Everest. Maxwell describes this law as when the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. For this law the team focuses on the team and the dream should take care of itself. Maxwell also states that the type of challenge determines the type of team that is required: A new challenge requires a creative team. An ever-changing challenge requires a fast, flexible team. This writer’s team faces challenges on a daily basis; there are changes made to this project daily with many of the directors of the hospital making changes to policies and protocols

The final law that this writer wants to discuss is The Law of Communication. With this law, Maxwell states that interaction fuels action. Effective teams have teammates who are constantly talking, and listening to each other....