Question

Working in teams has become necessary in many organizations and school projects. In this class, you have also been allocated to project teams. Together with your teammates, you have accomplished two team projects. Reflect upon your experiences of the learning journey, drawing connections between Organizational Behavior theories and your team processes, and discuss accordingly. In particular:

a) What did your team do well? Identify your team’s top two key success factors and explain what interventions or unintended actions contributed to those positive experiences. (Discuss and Elaborate more with Individual Differences, Groups & Teams - 5 Stages of Team Development, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Organisational Behavior, Management and other related topics.) (Word limit of 300 words)

b) What went wrong at certain points? What were the reasons behind the process losses in your team? Discuss up to two issues and explain how your team turned around these situations. (Discuss and Elaborate more with Individual Differences, Groups & Teams - 5 Stages of Team Development, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Organisational Behavior, Management and other related topics.) (Word limit of 300 words)

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Answer 1

A)Working in teams involves the participation of many people focused on a set objective. Every member of the team is involved in achieving the same target. Working in a team leads to an increase in collaboration, better problem-solving skills, brainstorming, everyone is unique and has different skill sets hence the division of work becomes effective which increases the potential of a team. Right from orientation to the closure of the project everyone was involved and was giving their best to achieve the results. The two top key success factors of the team were firstly cohesiveness, members commitment and their willingness to strive for excellence as a team worked for their success. Secondly communication. Effective communication is very crucial in developing effective teams. In order to understand the goal,it's scope and agreeing upon a path to reach that set objective, the team must develop an effective method of communication. Here comes a very important role of the leader he must communicate things in a crisp and clear manner. A leader must be efficient enough that the team is willingly ready to do the work assigned or communicated. To avoid conflict also a quick mechanism should be there and the whole team must try to resolve it. A team when works as a family with all their strength and weakness it can achieve its goal easily. For example a cricket team, every player is crucial and no two-player has similar skills but together as a team, they are inseparable and strong.

2)When there is a team, there are different members with different mindsets and opinion, hence conflict is an obvious situation. At certain points, misunderstanding turned into conflict. Different expectation leads to misunderstanding also difference in values, belief needs can lead to misunderstanding but to cope this one must communicate and try to resolve. It is not always that what you understand is correct may be the person saying a thing has a different perspective and you have different perspectives hence talk and clear it. The difference in the behavioral styles also leads to conflict as no two people are the same differences arise and so conflict hence it is the duty of a leader to make things clear and resolve conflicts quickly. For example, when there is a political party all members have different behavioral style and it leads to conflict but the president of the party keeps check on every member and provides quick conflict resolution. The storming stage of team formation is very difficult to pass, It is a period marked by conflict and competition as individual personalities emerge at this stage of team formation. Team performance actually decreases in this stage because energy is put into unproductive activities. This stage was overcome by effective leadership and communication.conflicts were addressed with the utmost importance and urgency so that the situation can be controlled quickly without delayIndividual differences were sorted and the team objective was given priority.