Tuesday, 31 May 2016

What Kind of Team Member Are You?

                                                         

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Sunday, 29 May 2016

Why Teams should be formed?

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Today's working environment is more team oriented. You can see even in colleges and universities most of the assignments and projects are to be done in teams in order to prepare young teens with good team working skills so that in their career they won't face any difficulty. All the teams are shaped to achieve a particular objective. Organizations wants to perform well at very less cost and the reasons why they form teams are as follow:

1. Faster Response:
At some point when immediate action is required regarding any issue or to solve a problem, groups can act more quickly than individuals.

2. Better Response: 
Decisions made within groups have more accuracy and are more effective because each group member gives different ideas and viewpoints.

3. Increases Productivity: 
Team members often take the steps that are beneficial and can easily involves chances to improve efficiency of the business. Each member of the team suggest different ideas according to their experience level

4. Improves Employees Morale:
When an employee works in a group, automatically his morale boosts up. By observing that their team members are performing well, they also intend to do so.

5. Reduces risks for individuals:
For Decision making whole team is responsible. Thus, it reduces the possibility of risk for an individual.

6. Establish new problem solving ideas: 
Working in group can help an organization to have new problem solving ideas because there will be brainstorming session among team members regarding problem and then best idea will be selected to solve that issue.

References:

Mary Ellen Guffey, Kathleen Rhodes & Patricia Rogin. (2011). Why Teams should be formed ?   in K. R. Mary Ellen Guffey, Business Communication: Process & Product (5th Canadian Ed.). ON: Nelson.

Saturday, 28 May 2016

Disadvantages of Working in Teams

As every coin has a flip side, working in group also has many disadvantages. Convincing people to work in a group is not easy and also takes up a lot of time. At the same time, if everyone comes together to work towards a common goal, there is nothing better than that. Here are some negative points of working in a group.

1. Unequal Participation:         
                                       


It is always possible in the groups that each member may not contribute equal amount of work. Some may do less amount of work and others may work hard. This imbalance in the work done, can bring about inconvenience between the group members. This will likewise cause bitterness among team members and they will not be ready to work with each other.

2. Intrinsic Conflicts:



At the point when number of individuals begin to work in a team, contradiction is certain to emerge among them. Each individual may have their own thoughts which could conflict with what the other individual needs to recommend. Some individuals in a group may likewise think that it’s hard to acknowledge recommendations or thoughts from someone else, as they want others to acknowledge their thoughts. This conflict among team mates will stop the flow of work and may cause loss to the entire organization.


3. Easy to avoid work: 

               


When working in a group especially a large one, it is very simple for some individuals to keep themselves away from the work load and want others to do the whole task.


4. Time Consuming:

            


The entire procedure could be long, while working in a group. It requires a considerable amount of time, since there is requirement for agreement and co-operation from all individuals from the group.

References:

Sravani, 2015 “Disadvantages of working in teams” retrieved from:

Friday, 27 May 2016

Tips to Improve Teamwork


Working in groups is not always easy because of many reasons such as unequal participation and conflicts among team members. Most of the people had bad experience while working in teams. Well, talking about me, I had a great experience while working in a team. At school, I was assigned a team project and it was worth 25% of my overall grade. All my team members were very hardworking and they paid their full attention towards our project which helps us in attaining a good grade. Here I would like to list some tips that I used in my team project to make it a success.

1. Make every team member feel valued: Success as a team can only be possible when each team member is aware of their importance. All team members should be involved in all tasks and decision makings.

2. Facilitate conversation, idea sharing and brainstorming: There should be better communication skills among all the group members in order to work comfortably with each other. There should be some rooms where team members can share their ideas and had a brainstorming session with each other.

3. Recognize and reward good teamwork: It is always the responsibility of the team leader to reward the team when their goal is accomplished. By doing so team members will feel motivated and they will contribute more in future.

4. Avoid Gossips: Support and respect one another, never undermine with petty jealousy, prejudice and gossips because it may cause conflicts among team members and they will not work with each other which might affect organization’s success.

5. Disputes should be solved immediately: Most of the time disputes occur among team members and it is the responsibility of team members to report all these things to team leader in order to get them solved. In Order to get the best of output, one needs to focus more on the benefits of working in a group. Thus, working together can prove to be advantageous for the project, as well as the company.

References:

Catherine Capozzi, “Ways to Improve Teamwork at Workplace.” Retrieved from:
Evin O'Keeffe, 2015, “10 Ways to strengthen team relationships.” Retrieved from: