Mgt521 Week 2

Team Leadership Memo

Amanda Lee

MGT/521 Management

July 6, 2015

Professor Les Colegrove

Team Leadership Memo

TO: Les Colegrove

FROM: Amanda Lee

DATE: July, 6, 2015

SUBJECT: Team Leadership Memo

Thank you for taking the time to read my ideas regarding the leadership of this new marketing team. This is sure to be a great opportunity for all of us involved. Included in this memo are details about the individuals on this team and information about their personalities. I will use this information to design a personalized approach to leading this team effectively. The members of this team have been a part of this company for some time and are well-versed in their roles, organized, and very trustworthy. The team will not need lectures or training on how the company is run and other pertinent information.

The team is comprised of three individuals and me. Amy Hutson is very much an extrovert who can see the vision of the future and will not accept less than her best. She is a natural for coming up with pros and cons to ideas that are generated. This will allow me to use her for strategizing in this new market. Her vision of the new market will allow us to create ideas that will be successful. Next, we have Christina Thomas. She is the type of person who is people-oriented and very creative. She will work well with others as she is the type who does not like conflict and can resolve things when people are having differing opinions. I will look to her to keep the team motivated and optimistic about the goals of the team. Finally, we have Alexeis Ares-Gattorno. He is a very logical individual. He will keep brain storming ideas very realistic and help us realize what is attainable and what just a dream is.

Robbins and Coulter (2012) states that there are seven different traits associated with leadership-drive, desire to lead, honesty and integrity, self-confidence, intelligence, job-relevant knowledge and extraversion. To be an effective leader, I must use all...