Describe a team which you have led, or been a member of, that did not operate ef

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Describe a team which you have led, or been a member of, that did not operate effectively. What were the key factors contributing to the poor performance of the team? How could the performance be improved? (Max. words: 750) In your response, be sure to describe: planning processes clarity and commitment to objectives team members’ capacity to perform work support of team members by team leader relationships within the team accountability of team members for their own and the teams’ objectives relationships with other stakeholders.

Explanation / Answer

One of the biggest challenges I faced in my life was related to Minor-Project in the 7th semester of my engineering. My group was severely lagging behind in preparation of our project. This was majorly because we have been quite poor planners and we lacked synergy and harmony in group. there were hardly any group meetings because every member was busy with his own set of friends. Our preparation was not in a good shape and the closely approaching deadline was taking its toll on everyone and in the given situation our chances of completing the project were looking really bleak and some of us were convinced that our project will not come to fruition in given time.

The major factors that led to the dreadful state of our project were:

We were only a week away from the submission date when I believed it was time I stirred some life into the group when it was needed the most. I took charge of the group and behaved as a leader. I was trying to get the team together, working towards successfully finishing the project. That is when I quoted to them a quote from one of my most favourite novella “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” - “Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” And a smile swept across every face in our group.

There was renewed energy in our group and we together planned to revamp our efforts and look upon the problems. We pondered over what was ailing our progress and narrowed it down to working in an unorganized manner and not having distributed the proper roles to everyone. I directed everyone and distributed the roles keeping in mind everyone’s strengths and group synergy. Everyone started to work with renewed energy and everything started falling into place as we prudently proceeded on our respective jobs. We were able to successfully complete the project in time and were satisfied with our results. Our project was well received by the faculty-in-charge and we got 10 out of 10 pointer in our Minor-Project.

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