Communication
The first criteria I am using to analyze my team is communication. What I mean by communication is how the team exchanged, received, and connected on a regular basis when there was a goal to accomplish. I choose communication as a criteria because communication is the most important quality a team needs to succeed. Communication alone isn't enough it is beyond that in terms of communicating it effectively with quantity and quality. Understanding roles and communicating work is the key to a valid team collaboration. Within our group we did a good job at communicating goals and reporting back to team members. Our team used a group chat on our cell phones to stay updated with each other with tasks and the project progress. We also
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What I mean by performance is how the group collaborated together and functioned to work efficiently towards a common goal. I choose performance to analyze because the principle of working together underpins how a team operates. Different skills and views are never underestimated and they could only enhance a product or project if communicated correctly. One positive quality within performance is that each of my teammate had a distinctive skill and were creative and innovative in their own way. For example, one team member was really good with software, another at marketing, and another at writing. All these different talents and expertise brought easiness and lots of creativity in our project. It was also an opportunity for each member to learn from each other expatriates, ad I personally did learn. One quality that affected our performance was procrastination. Many of the team members procrastinated until the last minute to postpone work and left it until a week or so before something was due. This left some team members frustrated as some were very organized and did not appreciate last minute, inconsistent, and sloppy work and wanted to read writing multiple times before it is turned in. This caused some unnecessary tension between members and wasted time and energy that could have been used in the project …show more content…
What I mean by time management is meeting deadlines, planning, scheduling, arranging when a deliverable or a project was due. Time management is very important and is needed for a good project outcome. I choose time management as a criteria to analyze because a lack of time management could lead to all the things that went wrong that I mentioned in this analysis like procrastination and lack of communication. Good time management helps accomplish goals in a shorter time and allows for opportunities that could be an advantage to a teams product. Within our group one positive attribute within this criteria was that as a group we were able to always complete tasks on time and before hand to review things and put together for the final product. We were all alway able to complete tasks before hand like the interviews needed for deliverable 1 and
My team consists of four other people besides myself, Lauren Chojnaki, Alexa-Louise Patnode, and Jacobe Loewen, and Ryan Tyriver. Together, we are tasked with the mission to complete a stakeholder analysis regarding a specific organization and their structure. For this project to be completed successfully, it is important that all team members are able to cooperate with one another and are able to use their different strengths to create the best end product.
I believe our group effectively achieved the overall goal by successfully completing the assignment by the deadline. Although we didn’t encounter any conflicts due to different personality, culture or background, they all aroused from different matters. For instance as this was the second time we were all working together as a group with a new member. We had t...
members who have a range of different skills sets and interests, to ensure the team works. Taking into consideration the scope of the project before selecting the team to determine which individual is best to serve the team. If the team member treats his role as an independent one then communication will suffer, communication in the project is a key component during all team working. The lack of leadership, teams need strong leaders, without a strong leader the team may lose morale and enthusiasm towards the team. Role confusion and conflict can cause challenges in team working training the staff to over comes issues like this can help.
I have also learnt that before project or assignment is deliverable, it requires a formal presentation to the team so that they can evaluate. It is the duty of the stakeholders to ensure that the project and assignment meets the criteria. It is the duty of each member to analyze, identify and recommend their
Adding new features during development is not allowed, thereby helping in finalizing delivery date. Requirements and are well defined.
The purpose of this study is to achieve a better understanding of team dynamics in an elite individual sport setting. The research goal is to uncover issues that may take place among athletes and the day to day stress that can accompany the pressures of competing at a high level. I feel this is relevant as mental fortitude is regarded as an important aspect of competition, and with that comes the question of how a team atmosphere can effect athlete performance, what level of interest is given in regards to how a coach or teammate reacts upon a result based on their own opinions, should they give them, or the opinion of the athlete in question. Many athletes may find it hard to ignore the opinions of others, especially when those opinions
When working on a group project, there are certain skills that are required to make sure that the tasks are being carried out smoothly. With that in mind, it is critical to keep an open line of communication as well as an understanding of the other individuals in the group. The following scenario is of a group project I was a part of that had a breakdown in the two points expressed above.
Characteristics of High-Performance Work Teams Although there is no simple measure of performance effectiveness for groups, and no team is identical, there seems to be a shared understanding of what makes an effective group work. High-performance work teams are generally composed of a combination of purpose and goals, talent, skills, performance ethics, incentives and motivation, efficacy, leadership, conflict, communication, power and empowerment, and norms and standards. Team purpose, goals and roles High-performing teams are synergistic social entities that work toward the achievement of a common goal or goals—short term and long term. They often exemplify a total commitment to the work and to each other.
Having all team members agree upon the same goal or idea can be challenging especially when each team member has their own way of looking or thinking about things. Team members often want to speak up and state their opinion but can be intimidated that the team will disagree so they stay quite instead. Individuals all of their own way of solving problems, doing research and meeting goals so when trying to meet team goals it can be challenging to have all members on the same page. Another issue among team members can be members being unprofessional or disrespectful to other team members, this can also result in poor communication skills. In addition, work loads or roles can become a key issue because not all team members full their weight and rely on other team members to do all the work, when this happens in can become awkward to approach individuals about doing their shear of work.
Time management is a term that is used to describe ones use of productive time. Time management is all relative to the perception of the task needing to be accomplished. Is the project long or short term? Is this something that needs to be done in a timeframe? Is this a personal goal or is it a demand of a superior? Defining time management and applying it to my life has created some questions of how well I succeed as an employee, student, mother and wife while creating a balance between obligation and time.
What makes up an effective team? Is it the teams, efficiency or the ability to get along? Maybe it’s their competitive nature. Whatever makes them top-notch may have something to do with the 12 characteristics that make up an effective team (Juneja, P., pp. 1-2).
Effective teams work to establish common goals. These goals are usually the drivers of an effective team when all of the participants are communicating to develop the goals they would all like to achieve. In business, this can be seen when groups set a sales goal and develop a plan of action to achieve this goal. Individuals empowered to approach a goal with their interests in mind as well as the interest of the whole group.
The components of a good team should be considered. First, a high-performance team must have strong core values to guide attitudes and behavior consistent with the team's purpose. The members should know why the team is created and why he or she is on the team. Secondly, a team should have specific performance objectives. Members should know exactly what they are trying to accomplish. This also includes having standards for measuring results and ways of obtaining performance feedback. A good team will make members realize the importance of collective efforts. Third, a high-performance team has the right mix of skills. These involve technical, interpersonal, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. No one needs to know how to do it all, but each member should be able to contribute to the group....
Skills and knowledge possessed by every member is also important for a team to become high performance. Although it is among the most important factors, however, it must be coupled with a good working relationship with every team member and good collaboration with every team member. The members who possess the good skills and wide knowledge will be a useful resource to the team if that team member can share their strengths with the other team members and vice versa. It is usually misconstrued that having skillful and intelligent team members is already enough to make a team work right. This kind of thinking is the reason why most teams, despite all of those competent members they have, fail to achieve their goals. A team should establish one common goal, not to think that way and develop a good working relationship with each member. (retrieved from: http://www.strictlysuccess.com, August 18, 2005) This can be done by self awareness exercises, like the DISC assessment and other assessments or any other kind of self awareness exercises regarding communication style differences. Then these factors and important pieces of information should be taken into full consideration before the actual project is begun. These exercise or assessments can be great ice breakers and mark the difference between a group of individuals merely assigned to a team, as opposed to functioning as...
Time management is the key to success, it allows you to take control of your life rather than following in the footsteps of others. You accomplish more, you make better decisions, and you work more efficiently; this leads to a more successful life. It can be the key difference between getting projects done and ultimately failing.