What is a team?
A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
Process of forming an effective team
- building trust
- sharing responsibilities
- cultivating interdependence on others' strengths
- optimising intercultural differences
Benefits of teamwork
- increased work output
- greater creativity
- higher morale
- increase work quality
Characteristics of a good team member
- appreciation of differences in cultural worms, practices and ideas
- accommodation of different personality styles
- development of a win-win mentality
- commitment to team goals
- contribution to team goals
Characteristics of good team
- everyone participates actively and positively in meetings and projects
- goals are understood by everyone
- members are carefully listened to and received thoughtful feedback
- everyone takes initiative to get things done
- each team mate trusts the judgement of the other team members
- everyone is supportive of the project and of others
- there is plenty of communication between team members
- everyone is focused on the ultimate goal of the project
10 common team problems
- indecisiveness
- overbearing participants
- dominating participants
- reluctant participants
- unquestioned acceptance of the opinions as facts
- rush to accomplish the task without planning
- wanderlust; digression and tangents
- feuding members
my reflections:
i think that good team members are really hard to find. nobody is perfect in everything and there is always problems occurring in a team. no matter how hard we try to keep a team together, problems and disagreements will always rise. the members is also very important because if one of the member do not cooperate with the team, it is very hard to communicate.. so, i think everyone should try to do their best in a team and not let one person do everything.
