Brief Synthesis of Team Leadership Effectiveness and Performance

In this paper the authors attempt a synthesis of pertinent team leadership literature centered on the concepts of team leadership effectiveness, team performance, and how organizations can effectively achieve these through various strategies and understanding of the basics of team effectiveness. The authors briefly explore the major different types of teams in 21st century global organizations and present several theories and models on team leadership, looking at the characteristics and attributes of high performance teams (HPTs), and how these represent the ideal that leaders and managers across organizations seek to develop and apply in achieving organizationally salient tasks and mission. The authors examine the implications of the ideas, theories, and principles of team effectiveness and team performance as presented by several theorists and writers, and then make several recommendations for achieving the synergistic and beneficial effects of teams as described in the literature.