Team Dynamics And Conflict Resolution
Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution
Section 1
Team Dynamics
Let us start this discussion into team dynamics with some definitions. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines dynamic as a pattern or process of change, growth, or activity. It also defines team as a number people associated in work or activity. So it leads that teamwork should be the interaction of individuals for a common purpose and committed to success for all members.
The concept and use of teams has been with mankind since before recorded history. In earlier times men would hunt in teams having the common purpose to supply food for their families. Through the ages teams have gone through stages of development, recently more and more into specialized units to reach shared goals or tasks. The point is that teams are not new.
Today the process of change can happen in a blink of the eye. Keeping up with the ever-changing ideas and practices have led businesses, educational, and professional institutions to adopt teams as a way of coping with change. Businesses have made use of the team concept to solve both economic and resource problems. From what I have been able to read it seems that the use of teams in recent years has increased dramatically since the early 1990's in response to economic problems. So much so that building teams has become somewhat of art, or to be put more exactly, a skill of combining the talents of many and sometimes only a few individuals to fulfill a common purpose. This is one trait of a leader in the team environment. All of us know what teams mean in sports. Growing up in United States many of us has had a favorite team be it in football or in baseball or whatever sport. Each of those types of teams trade members trying to build the best team. But once the right people are brought together and cohesion begins to solidify between members those teams begin to excel.
So what are the building blocks that make...
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