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Lead and manage a team within an Early Years Setting

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Which one of the following is NOT a leadership principle?

Directing and controlling staff

Creating a strategic vision

Establishing structure

Inspiring and influencing others

Democratic leaders:

give team members complex tasks

make decisions without consultation

make the final decisions after consultation

give team members a lot of freedom

A highly motivated workforce will usually achieve:

different leadership styles

better working conditions

stakeholder engagement

increased job satisfaction

Performance management is

aggressive

strategic

autocratic

intrusive

An empowered team is

responsible and accountable for their outcomes

motivated by pay and conditions

implementing change

used to managers with different leadership styles

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Table of Contents

Tutorial Video
Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

Laser Learning Reading Text 1: The features of an effective team
Laser Learning Reading Text 2: Getting the team involved
Reflecting on your organisation
Laser Learning Reading Text 3: Developing the team
Laser Learning Reading Text 4: Giving assertive feedback
'Understanding leadership styles checklist’ from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
'The effect of leadership behaviour on work climate and team effectiveness’ by Inez Makaske
'Understanding organisation and organisation culture’ webpage on the Management Study Guide
'How to manage performance’ from the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)
'Team Building’ webpage on the Management Study Guide website
'Dealing with problems at work’ from ACAS, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
'Building staff motivation in the Early Years’ from Early Years Careers
'Finding your vision’ from Teach Early Years
'What is the solution focused approach?’ from the Solutions Ventre website.

Presentation

Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Developing a positive culture’.
Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘The art of negotiation’.
Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Leading a team’.
Click to launch this lesson’s fourth presentation on ‘Managing conflict'.
Click to launch this lesson’s fifth presentation on ‘Managing people effectively’ by Early Years.

Good Practice Example
Good Practice Example
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

‘Challenging practice to further improve learning, playing and interacting in the Early Years Foundation Stage’ was produced by the Department for children, schools and families when the EYFS was first launched. It contains useful information about team leading in an early years setting.
‘People management in the early years’ by Pre-School Learning Alliance. Click to read this extract from the book. You may wish to purchase the full book for further guidance on people management, but this is entirely at your discretion.
Use the internet to research the following: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs The Hawthorne Studies Douglas McGregor Elton Mayo
This article from Wharton University of Pennsylvania is about ‘Managing emotions in the workplace: Do positive and negative attitudes drive performance?’
Click on the link to read this article about staff meetings in educational settings by Gary Hopkins, on the American website, Education World.
Click on the link below to read an excellent article about team-building and team roles from the management expertise portal BNET, provided via Scribd.
Find out about John Adair’s Action-Centred Leaderships model. This model concludes that a leader’s behaviour impacts on their effectiveness.The Free Management Library website includes links to a number of other topics including ‘Management (overview)’ and ‘Leadership (overview)’.
The big five personality traits’ webpage on the Very Well Mind website. Click on the icon to the left to read this article and consider how leadership and management styles, and motivation, may affect each personality trait.
‘Cross cultural conflict resolution in teams’ webpage on the Mediate website. Click read this article by John Ford.
‘Juggling priorities’ by Sarah Heale, published by Teach Early Years magazine. Click to read part 1 of the series ‘The manager’s role’.
Click to read the document ‘Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?’ by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
This section of the Belbin website describes ‘The nine Belbin Team roles’.

Think And Challenge
Think And Challenge
Think And Challenge