The A-Team

It’s not often I anticipate letters in the mail, but this was how our school notified students of varsity sports tryout results. Our school fields highly competitive teams in all sports and soccer ranks as one of the most difficult teams to make. Thirty of my classmates were in the same situation, waiting on the same day at their mailboxes. My heart raced when I found “Riley Bonifer” in the middle of that envelope and the school address in the corner. My hands shook as I peeled back the flap for…

The New Science of Building Great Teams Why do some teams regularly deliver high performance while similar teams seem to struggle? In this article, Pentland offers the details of his observations and shows how anyone can construct a successful team. He quickly recognized three key communication aspects that affect performance: energy, engagement, and exploration. Concluding from the data, he defined the best team patterns for each aspect. What did the data say? Through observing 21 companies,…

Sometimes friends become similar to a family. One of the best things I have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. What I didn't know at the time was how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. To start, I was really excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer but I was a little nervous. I thought about what the other kids would think about me. Would they think…

The sustainability team project exposed me to a variety of skills and concepts while dealing with a complex problem, one of them being team conflict. I would like to reflect on this, since my opinion about it has changed, as we progressed through the course. There were various conflicts that occurred during the project, but only one in particular was significant to change my opinion about team conflicts, it was towards the end of the project. When the team was discussing solutions to the complex…

is the Director of Admission for the College of Dentistry and we drafted a proposal discussing how closed-door student panels affect incoming students in both a positive and negative way. Below this paper will discuss how the team was formed, my individual role on the team and how all of the information came together during the process. When the class was first given the assignment I knew I wanted to work outside of the HESA program and build a better relationship with professionals within my…

assemblage of seven different readings from various theorists on the studies performed on groups and teams. The reading provides an understanding of how organizations can employ the expertise and originality of individuals into functioning efforts of groups. Also, three topic points, such as diversity, self-directed work teams, and virtual teams, offers additional interests in groups and teams that have taken center stage in literature during the 1990s and 2000s. Critical Analysis of…

Army Crew Team Recommendations to Coach Preczewski Coach Preczewski, Head Coach of the United States Military Academy Crew Team faced the toughest decision of his coaching career just 4 days before the National Championship races. He struggled with team leadership, cohesiveness, and teamwork from his athletes. With his Varsity team consistently being defeated by the Junior Varsity team in races and practices, he knew that something was not right. He had done many objective tests that were…

The discovery team project overall was a good experience and I will try to take something that I learned from it with me for future team projects. Three insights that I learned from this activity are utilizing all commuctaion technogly that are available, the need for leadership, and that a team without conflict seems that the members are not invested in the project. The discover team that I was on only used one way to communicate. It ended up being slow and not a lot of involvement. There was…

spirit, red, white and black and across the field the visiting team had a couple of spectators dressed in orange. As I look down at the perfectly grassed, green soccer field marked with white lines and a red letter N in the center, i see both teams doing drills, shooting, passing and running. Our team captain has a neon green arm band, he leads the team yelling across the field and keeping everyone focused. Shortly after, the two teams and the starting players are introduced over the speaker,…

Trust is extremely important when building a cross functional team. Leaders rely more on the intelligence, resourcefulness and the collective brainpower of their staff. While working toward a common goal interpersonal relationships depend on trust. In this situation working with people with different functional expertise, effective teamwork is about having trust and respect of each team member. Workers must have a level of trust and respect for each other’s opinion. Although this puts most…