Saturday, November 1, 2014

A631.2.5.RB - Cooperation and Competition

We are new team and through communication learned only one member of the team had worked with a fellow team member. In the past I was more familiar with working on one team project throughout the entire semester rather than having several team projects. The team seems to be one with talents in all areas that would make us successful. Each brings different skills to the table.

We all agree that time and schedules have been in the past and probably will be in the future the most difficult element we will be dealing with. Time zones and unforeseen schedules may throw this well-oiled team into some hectic meetings, but we agree that at this point in our education we are completely capable of handling anything that comes along as a team.
I can’t say there was or has been much time spent on problem solving because I’m not aware of any problems that have occurred. The closest thing to a problem I saw was one I created myself when I overlooked a team member who had requested to be a team leader for Module 3. I requested the same module without taking time to read all the posts from the team. The problem was alleviated when I requested to be leader of another unclaimed module. Oh yes…there was the problem of me having to re-submit my portion of the charter because I failed to submit all the requirements. Our team leader had the patience of Job and because we were in constant communication I completed all tasks without causing harm to the team. She was amazing at intervening and alleviating any potential problems (Brown, 2011, p. 203).

All information was shared with everyone by everyone on the Team Discussion Board. I don’t believe there has been any question about when, where, what and why the team’s objectives and focus needs to be. I am not strong in writing skills and yet I have all the confidence in the world that as a team we will work together to submit quality work for each of the team projects.
I can only hope that someday the team at TSTC can work together as seamlessly as the team I’ve been assigned to in this semester. It has been a pleasure and privilege to work with them. Although in some teams competition is strengthening, I see that the strength in my team this semester comes from support of each other.

References

Brown, D. R. (2011). An experiential approach to Organizationan Development (8th ed.).