- What
behaviors seemed to help your team successfully complete its task?
Motivation,
organization, team-work, experience, and integrating behaviors all helped my
team complete this task in as easy a way as possible. Right off of the bat team
one had one of our team members decide that she wanted to take charge this week
since she recognized that she would be a lot busier during the end of the term.
The rest of the team followed suit by picking weeks to take the lead, this
automatically gave us a start so that we all knew our roles and what we have to
accomplish throughout the next nine weeks.
A large portion to
us knowing that we needed to take the lead on certain weeks can be attributed
to the experience that we all have thus far; this is not the first class for
any of us so we are very accustomed to working in teams. Experience and team
work can make any project very simple when everyone can recognize that we all
need each to support each other and we all need to take the lead at some point.
These types of actions all correspond with integrating behaviors which are a
positive to have when working with teams. We all have a high concern for our
self and for others, the integrating style is concerned with problem solving;
“it uses openness, sharing of information, and the examination of differences
to reach a consensus solution” (Brown, 2011).
- What
factors inhibited decision-making or problem-solving?
When working with
long distance teams there are any factors which can inhibit a team. The first
concern between all of us is of course the way that we have to communicate, we
do not see each other in a classroom on a daily basis. Many people would have
considered this a challenge which is hard to overcome but as technology has
taken communication to a new level distance teams are not much of a challenge
at all.
In
an article by Natalie burg from Forbes magazine she states that “As it turns
out, the answer to all of the complaints about the evolving workplace wasn’t to
abandon technology for a more human way of working, but to evolve technology to
make the new way of working more human”( Forbes). With this technology which has been provided
by Embry Riddle University we have made communicating with our group very easy
and personal; all I have to do is log in to my account to see the latest work
and message from one of my team mates.
- How
much time was spent on decision-making and problem-solving?
Surprisingly enough for this
assignment I believe that there was minimal time spent on actual decision
making. The experience which our team has with working in this environment
helps us recognize a task and tackle it with out to much conflict or problem
solving. I would say that within the first day we all knew what we had to do
and got straight to work.
- How
was information shared among team members?
Information was
shared via either the post or on a customized file exchange board where we are
able to post all of our latest work for others to review online. I am sure that
in the future if necessary we have other platforms which are available such as
email and our phones which where all shared through the team charter.
- How
did issues of authority or power affect the team?
It seems as though we have a very
compromising team, I did not get a sense of anyone person having a dominating
type of personality. This is important because I do not think that we will have
any conflicts among our teams. I see that we are all on the same level and
are for the most part people that are very easy to work with. I have heard in
the past that sometimes teams will need a third party to intervene with issues
that may arise in the group; I have had experience with these current team
members in the past and I do not see that being an issues as we proceed
ahead. As we have read in our text third
parties are used for “ensuring mutual motivation, achieving a balance in situational power, and coordination confrontation efforts” (brown, 2011); I do not see
either of these problems being an issue with our team.
- How
did collaboration and competition influence the outcome?
The only type of
competition that I could see apparent in my group was who could claim the lead
for certain weeks as soon as possible. I do not yet know if people were just
anxious to take the lead or perhaps wanting to be the first to grab the weeks
which where the easiest to be in charge of. Only time will tell what the
outcome will be for the certain weeks which I assigned myself to take the lead
on.
- Did
team members make process interventions?
As a team we did
make some process interventions as to what we all expect from each other and
some of the ground rules which will be important for the success of our team. I
believe that these type of interventions right from the beginning help set a
positive atmosphere and one of accountability also. I do feel the need of
making process interventions and I think that for the time being we have done
so appropriately.
References:
- Brown, Donald R. (2011). An Experiential Approach to
Organization Development (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New
Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
-Burg, N. (2015, April 4). How Technology Has Changed
Workplace Communications. Forbes.
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