Working in a team is a practice as old as the first human relationships, in which we collude with other individuals in order to achieve a common goal, and ultimately share both the success and failures of the operation (Buchanan and Huczynski 2011). However, working in a team is a difficult practice where there are many individuals with different ideas, all of them wanting to implement their own methods to attain that final, common goal. Differences in morals, culture, principles and personalities can create the most effective team, but it can also result in a horribly dysfunctional creature that steers itself away from any form of success. As a student of management I can support this through my personal experience; i.e. team building exercises
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Even though we are individuals, with our own personal wants and needs, it is in our human nature to work with others in order to achieve a common goal. Upon saying this, I must outline that through my experience I’ve found that this school of thought reaches much further; we are willing to go beyond our comfort zones, adapt and maybe implement other points of view that are opposite to our own with the end purpose of achieving mutual understanding that leads to ‘peace’ (Kant 1795). If all of the group members share a clear main objective, then they will actively try to work well together, going as far as developing relationships that transcend the working environment. For example, for our Management module last year we had a series of team building exercises at Forrest Hills. We were divided into groups with people we had never met before, from parts all over the world. In the end, our collective drive for success turned what could have been considered a task into an activity amongst …show more content…
But working in a team is indeed difficult, there are many factors that have be taken into account, controlled, and regulated at all stages of the project/task in order to make the interaction as fluid and effective as possible. From my past experiences I can recall many teams which experienced difficulties comparable to the completion of the task itself. In my opinion, working in a team is not as difficult as finding out what the client really wants, or even worse, having to deal with a client that doesn’t know what they want. In the end, the difficulties that arise from working in a team are but tools that can be used to your group’s advantage, which we will be sure to apply to our MNGT200 groups as to maximise our efficiency as a team. Alongside the frameworks that have been taught to us, we can turn the lack of similar vision into the thing we have in common as a team or even make the communication so effective the members don’t even have to see each
Even though we are individuals, with our own personal wants and needs, it is in our human nature to work with others in order to achieve a common goal. Upon saying this, I must outline that through my experience I’ve found that this school of thought reaches much further; we are willing to go beyond our comfort zones, adapt and maybe implement other points of view that are opposite to our own with the end purpose of achieving mutual understanding that leads to ‘peace’ (Kant 1795). If all of the group members share a clear main objective, then they will actively try to work well together, going as far as developing relationships that transcend the working environment. For example, for our Management module last year we had a series of team building exercises at Forrest Hills. We were divided into groups with people we had never met before, from parts all over the world. In the end, our collective drive for success turned what could have been considered a task into an activity amongst …show more content…
But working in a team is indeed difficult, there are many factors that have be taken into account, controlled, and regulated at all stages of the project/task in order to make the interaction as fluid and effective as possible. From my past experiences I can recall many teams which experienced difficulties comparable to the completion of the task itself. In my opinion, working in a team is not as difficult as finding out what the client really wants, or even worse, having to deal with a client that doesn’t know what they want. In the end, the difficulties that arise from working in a team are but tools that can be used to your group’s advantage, which we will be sure to apply to our MNGT200 groups as to maximise our efficiency as a team. Alongside the frameworks that have been taught to us, we can turn the lack of similar vision into the thing we have in common as a team or even make the communication so effective the members don’t even have to see each