Team Diversity

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1. Our team holds quite the bit of diversity as far as our values were discovered on the Discovery Wheel.(Ellis, 2011) Our common abundant categories show for Memory, Thinking, and Diversity. Past this, we seems to cover the wheel rather, well, if we are to pool our strengths as a team. We all report different weaknesses, and with good management, we would be able to combat each others lacking areas. The only section not particularly outstanding in either direction was Reading, and with a fair distribution, this would pose no problem either. From our reported and even by the way we post, each of our members have diverse amounts in the types of intelligences. We could not say if any of us match up significantly more than one another. 2. The advantages to having diversity on a team are endless. No two people are the same; everyone is from different cultures, background, and ethnicity with all different experiences. Having diversity in a group will almost always benefit the outcome of the project, because of all the different intelligence working together and learning from each other. Having different ideas is a good thing it makes other individuals expand their minds farther than their own thinking process and see things from other points of view, which will expand the individual’s understanding of the projects material. Being able to have a discussion, answer questions and get feedback from different people is not only giving the teachers prospective on our work, but gives us the ability to learn from others as well and hear what they have to say. Although diversity in a group is a positive as a whole, there are still challenges that come with it; challenges such as language barriers can definitely cause frustration in a group. Being from different ethnic backgrounds, and cultures is a great thing but it can also be the most challenging hurdle to overcome, because everyone is different, everyone has a different point of view. Knowing how to be respectful will go a long way in a diverse group. 3. When a team is put together, sometimes it goes off without a hitch, other times some building to get to team building is necessary. Members in a team can be quite diverse, and as such different viewpoints and walks of life shape the contributed ideas. These ideas towards the goal of the team's purpose are normally positive, but even so, others may feel the projections weak, unnecessary or abrasive.

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