Team Reflection

The team that I am in for BUAD 304, is Team SuperBuad with Nicole Scruggs, Deepthi Sampathkumar, James Karis, Rod Henley, Henry Chuang, Gabbi Green, Sama Manchanda. Though I have participated in many group projects throughout my educational and professional life, learning skills are crucial to making a team work. Sometimes it is easy to adapt to the group and feel like you have a great team, while other times it is a little hard to build a connection. Looking back on group projects, I believe that the ones that succeeded were do to the foundation the group had. The ones that didn’t do so well were not only due to personality difference, but no foundation with the group. Utilizing the theories and topics learned in class regarding teams and …show more content…
This is pretty much a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, but in a team format. I have never heard of this application prior to watching this lecture. However, I think this is something that is important to address. My team is made up with many personalities. Going back to our Myers Briggs results, we seem to be a very diverse group int the sense that it feel like we view situations a bit differently. I know I am a more intrinsic person and others are extrinsic. I think that we have not really set a foundation on whom we all are. Sure, we had that one hour group gathering, but I feel like that didn’t really allow us to really know each other on a student to student level. For me personally I feel like it is a bit hard to be in this group since I don’t really have that foundation of trust with them yet. I commute and I am much older than them, but aside from that I feel like we haven’t had enough group gatherings. This falls under absence of trust. I believe I am not the only one who feels this way, in which it is important that team SuperBuad develops …show more content…
Plus, I think since we do not have that foundation of trust, we don’t feel comfortable with one another to hold someone accountable. I am hoping to be able to build that trust. I think one thing is to be able to tell someone if they are going off track, in the sense of goofing off to much, or being a bit bossy. Inattention to results with the tasks that we have done as a group we have be pretty focused on what results we want. I think sometime we are a bit to focused and don't see the broader picture. For example on the survival ELC lab, we were all jumping leaving the site than actually seeing the pros and cons of staying vs leaving. I think that is one thing we need to work on is what do we want to achieve and how we are going to achieve