Question

Think of times you've worked in teams, both by choice and chosen for you. What has made them successful? What has made them disastrous? Make sure you discussion the differences you noticed between the teams you chose yourself and the teams you were assigned. (this can be school teams, workplace teams, social teams, etc).

Answer 1

The factors that would lead for a team to be successful in terms of what I have experienced in my college days are:

1. Communication: For every team to be successful, communication and feedback is a must. You have to make sure you are able to pass the information in an effective manner, recieve the information in an efficient manner and thus help in better cordination and feedback analysis for the process. This helps in making sure the team membes are well informed about various activities and strategies to take place accordingly.

2. Proper assignment of roles: Another important factor to achieve success is the proper assignment of duties and roles. I remember when I was a member of a team, all the duties were effectively designed with proper division of work. This helps in making sure who has the power and who we have to report thus helping us to achieve success.

The factors that would lead for a team to be a disaster in terms of what I have experienced in my college days are:

1. Role Conflict: One important factor that could lead the team to eventually fall for disaster would be the role conflict. In my team, I was the leader, the resource allocater and also the person who used to keep budget. Having so many roles to perform made the things around to be hectic and also confusing thus making me misguide and mismanage the people in my team leading to failure.

2. No Effective Feedback: Another factor is the feedback. Your team could never achieve success when you are not having proper feedback and communication to make sure to get the right details and information regarding the quality, delivery and effectivity of the output. This would lead the team to fall.