Respond to the following questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the
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Respond to the following questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the readings.
Describe in detail an experience working with teams in or outside your workplace.
Explain in detail and provide examples of the advantages and challenges of working in teams discussed in your reading that you experienced.
Then, respond to any two of the following questions.
How did your team learn as a group and move forward in the team-building process?
What was your experience as it relates to your organization’s culture?
Assume you are the leader and know what you know now about leading teams.
How would you use both formal and informal communication processes to communicate with your team members?
How would you facilitate moving your team through the stages of team development?
What if your team was a global one with members spread out throughout the world. Discuss three factors you need to consider to ensure team effectiveness.
The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.
Your posting should be 500-600 words in length.
Explanation / Answer
Describe in detail an experience working with teams in or outside your workplace.
Explain in detail and provide examples of the advantages and challenges of working in teams discussed in your reading that you experienced.
**The discussion presented below are in relevant to the software development and support teams and its working.
“You can definitely write code on your own, even long ones. But should you?”
Your ability to write, test and sell codes is prime skill and you must have that, but what can other do with that if you don’t get along with them, ability to communicate, present and argue over your and other’s work is not an add-on and is integral to the very core of being human and if you are uncomfortable with that, then that very team and the people within it can help you. So either way, you need team. Sooner we accept that, better for us.
“Ego-maniac super genius or consistently improving dumb?”
Independent ownership and team:
Good Corporation all around the world search for people with ability to take ownership and be independent, isn’t that means working on your own, all alone? Well NO. Its means taking charge of your work not working alone. Owning is not important, sense of ownership is. In large projects a time will come when your work overlaps with others and then you might have to walk up to him/her and understand their work or let them understand yours, sense of ownership is a periphery which expand or contracts based on the context it’s not something you gets identified with. Underlying all the jargons and activities which your organization make you do and you may dislike is the message of “BE YOURSELF”, “TRUST” and “HOLD YOUR JUDGEMENT”.
“I am what I am!” - Well no, if you are an ego maniac, self-obsess person. It’s not core to your personality you need to learn and manage that too, and humans are flexible enough to do that. Only question is are you willing to do that?
Advantage:
Challenges:
Summary:
Team is not some loose set of people brought together to complete the skill requirement of project, its way more than that. Earlier managers and members understand this better for work. The main aim is indeed project completion and that requires you to jell in with others, so stop finding pointers to blame others are start co-operating with them.
What was your experience as it relates to your organization’s culture?
Like any good organization, culture is always inclined towards inclusion and providing helping hands. While hiring managers, look for red flags in candidate’s behavior using scenarios and Q/A. Peers and seniors are helpful within the bounds where they don’t spoon feed at same time trust you for your work.
Assume you are the leader and know what you know now about leading teams.
How would you use both formal and informal communication processes to communicate with your team members?
The aim here is to have an unconscious ability to complement and look after the people around you. Sometime your actions might be categorized over the top, or un-necessary but that is better than consciously following some rule book (which has its own merits).
Complement: appreciate people around you for even small thing which they have done for you or your team. It doesn’t hurt.
Look after the people around you: is doesn’t mean motivating and providing shield against hard situations only but also, putting them in tight situation where they could learn the ability to learn and cope up with things.
How would you facilitate moving your team through the stages of team development?
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