CAPELLA UNIVERSITY 3 Assessment 1 Response Letter Dear…., Effective leadership is important in setting a clear vision and effective communication for the team. With effective leadership, a team easily achieves its objective and delivers its roles. Therefore, the team will require effective leadership to ensure the team members understand their role and objectives of the team and thus ensure the team achieves its objectives (Rosen et al., 2018). The project involves addressing diversity issues and thus the team needs a leader who will forge the team towards addressing diversity. Leadership and Group collaboration Nursing essay letter The leader I would select to lead such a project is Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King’s leadership to end racism within the US, inspired and continue to inspire so many people globally. He depicted leadership styles and skills such as transformational leadership style, confidence, collaborative leader, effective communication, ability to influence change, passionate and persistence. Using these leadership skills, Martin Luther King was able to garner support worldwide and inspire people to join his cause. One characteristic that made Martin Luther King a successful leader is the ability to inspire and influence followers using a transformational leadership style. According to Afzal et al (2018), transformational leaders can envision the required changes and influence other people to own and support the change. Similarly, I also believe in supporting and inspiring my team members and followers towards achieving the targeted change and objectives. To lead the team, I would ensure there is open communication and foster transparency in the team. This can foster trust, teamwork, and collaboration in the team. I would thus ensure that I keep all communication channels open and treat all team members equally without favoring any team member. Active listening is part of effective communication and therefore I would listen to all members of the team and ensure they express themselves freely. This would promote and encourage team members to explore new ideas and freely share their innovative ideas (Rosen et al., 2018). The leadership style I would adopt to lead the team is transformational. Transformational leaders work with teams to identify the required change, creates a vision that guides the change by inspiring and motivating the team members, and then the leader implements the change collaboratively with the team members (Boamah, 2018). By using the transformation leadership style, I would collaboratively work and inspire the team members to address the issue of diversity in the organization. For example, staff members at Lakeland Medical Clinic are not culturally competent and therefore together with the team members, we would identify what needs to be addressed to ensure that the staff members are culturally competent. Leadership and Group collaboration Nursing essay letter Additionally, through an inspirational leadership style, I would inspire the team members and model the appropriate behaviors and actions necessary in handling diversity issues in the organization. The team members would then look up to how I handle the issue of diversity and then copy the same actions. Motivation is also used by transformational leaders. I would hence motivate the team members while creating a supportive environment that facilitates achieving the set team objectives (Afzal et al., 2018). Strengths associated with the transformational leadership style are that it fosters collaboration and therefore the team works towards accomplishing a common cause. Transformational leaders are passionate and can influence others by inspiring and motivating team members to achieve their goals. Team members are highly motivated to perform their roles since the leader creates a supportive environment, motivates and inspires them to work collaboratively towards attaining a common cause (Alzahrani & Hasan, 2019). Moreover, there are reduced conflicts among team members and this accelerates goal achievement. However, the leader can lose control when followers do not agree with the vision for the leader. To maximize collaboration in the team, I would focus on the use of technologies that allow open communication for all. For example, all the team members would communicate about the issues allied to the project using the same platform such as a WhatsApp group. Such a common communication platform would promote open communication and transparency and foster trust within the team (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). Further, all information about the project should be shared openly with all team members. Another strategy that would promote collaboration in the team is ensuring that there is shared decision-making in the team. This will make each team member feel valued and own the project. Delegating duties to every team member will also promote collaboration in the team because each team will feel that they are making important contributions to the project (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). Finally, the set rules governing the group should be uniform for all members to avoid some members feeling favored while others feeling discriminated. All members should be heard and given a listening ear to air their ideas and perspectives. Interdisciplinary teams consist of members with diverse views and competency and all team members should be able to share their diverse views and ideas in the team. Leadership and Group collaboration Nursing essay letter References Afzal, M., Waqas, A., Farooq, A. and Hussain, M. 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