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Team Dynamics

Is there such a thing as a perfect team? Is there any team that does not have any obstacles or conflict to overcome? Obstacles like communication or confusion due to a lack of materials. Conflicts such as a difference in opinion or different priorities each member has could be something plaguing the group. Time management could also be something holding the group's progress up. There are a lot of things that can affect the group's progress to achieving their ultimate goal or project completion. The important thing is that the project is completed and on time. In this paper we are going to discuss our adventures acting as a team as well as how all of these conflicts and obstacles arose and how we overcame each of them.

The formation and assignment of roles and responsibilities was our first step. It was rather easy for us to become a, "so called" team because we were in the same time zone, except for one member, and we had to find a team as per our instructor. Then it was time to create the chain of command and form where our direction comes from and how we were going to function as a team. The roles for us were simply a team leader and team members because we are made up of only 4 people that just seemed like the logical way to continue. We quickly nominated the most aggressive and outgoing person to be the leader and the role of members to the remaining three. We then come to a point of defining exactly what part these roles will play in our team. As team leader your responsibility is to be a mentor, motivator, monitor, judge, and boss. You delegate the work and see the project through to the end with or without your member's cooperation. As a team member you take your assignments and your input to the group so that the team is at its best at all times. The members are the body of a team. They are what makes the ideas of the team come to life and be realized. We found that communication is the key to having a successful team. It is...

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