- Given what you have learned about team effectiveness and also about demographic and cultural diversity in the workplace—please reflect on the specific actions that you personally can take to improve the performance of the work teams in which you participate. The following questions will help you to formulate and organize your reflections.
Think about a team you belonged to and enjoyed. This could be a student or work team. Now answer the following questions. - What was the reason you enjoyed the team?
2.What made the members “click?”
3.What were the norms in the team?
4.How did you decide who would do what?
5.What made you work hard for the team?
Now answer the following questions for a team you belonged to but did not enjoy. - What was the reason you did not enjoy the team?
- What made the members distant from each other?
- What were the norms in the team? Were the norms effective?
- How did you decide who would do what?
- Did you work hard for the team? Why or why not?
Comparing your experiences, please specifically name the things that you can do to proactively manage (and/or positively contribute to) the teams in which you participate? How can you change your own perceptions and behaviors to ensure that the team ends up being successful? - Week 2: A wide range of individual factors make you unique as an individual. Describe some of those individual factors that define who you are as a person and who you are as an employee in your organization. Explain how those factors influence the way you think, feel, and behave at work. Do any of these factors contribute to the quality of your work performance in a positive or negative way? Explain how and why. Remember to integrate relevant course concepts and provide specific examples and details to illustrate and support your responses.
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