Question

All of you have been on teams in recent years. It might have been a sports team or a work group.

It might have been a student panel or a fraternity or sorority team. It might have been a committee of some sorts -- anything where you had to work with other people to accomplish a goal.

Reflect what being on the team was like.Was it a good experience or a bad experience? Did the team work well together? If so, why (specifically)? Did you make conscious decisions to work together or did you simply “gel”? Did the team work poorly together? What do you think was the problem (specifically)? What could you have done to make it better?

Give us enough specific information about the team so that we know what you are talking about. Think about one unique lesson you learned -- as opposed to one generic lesson that could be applied to any team.

Answer 1

Working in a team is not that easy as the members of the teams has different perepective of their own and everyone likes their idea to be choosen for their task. Working in a team is over all fine but sometimes its really gets though when team members do not cooperate or don't give their contribution in their work and need the euqal amount of credit. This is where the experience gets bad. Team work is all about equally contributing together to excel in a task when intiative is not taken by each of the member of the team when the task mostly reamins incomplete or the end result is not fruitful.

As a team member i always tried to make consious decisions and actively participate in the whole task as I too have the responsibility to work properly for the whole team being a part of it. The team did not work in a very good way but it was fairly acceptable. The problem of the team was that some of the members depend on other team members and did not complete their given objectives which delayed the work time as a whole. To get a positive outcome, each team members should be given specific objective to complete which would be not similar to one another so that they cannot depend on other. Team members should be always motivated to achive the goal which is required for a fruitful outcome. Everyone should equally be responsible for the task given to the whole team.