7-2 Journal: Building Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, but It's Just as Hard.
Read the following articles about building and leading effective teams:
Building Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, but It's Just as Hard.
https://hbr(dot)org/2012/04/consistently-building-highly-e/
And Building and Leading High Performance Teams.
http://www(dot)inc(dot)com/resources/leadership/articles/20070101/musselwhite.html#/resources/leadership/articles/20070101/musselwhite.html
Managing groups and teams is an essential element of the leading facet of the P-O-L-C framework. As you read these articles, reflect on your experience working in groups and teams, and then address the following prompts:
Think about a positive experience when you worked in a group or team and identify the principles that were presented in the articles that were exhibited by your group or team. Explain how these principles helped the group or team succeed.
Think about a negative experience when you worked in a group or team and identify which principles from the articles were lacking. Explain how the lack of these principles led to poor performance of the group or team.
If you were the manager of that group or team, how would you correct the issues that caused the poor performance? Consider the material from this module and in the articles.
LEADING EFFECTIVE GROUPS AND TEAMS
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Running an effective team is a very essential thing for any organization or business entity. The productivity of any entity is heavily reliant upon the productivity of a team or group. There are simple things that can hold a group together and make it function like a well-oiled machine. The simplicity of these aspects is what can also turn out to be the difficulty (Economy, n.d.).
There is this time when I happened to be part of a team that was assigned to carry out a number of duties that basically involved data collection. This assignment was multifaceted and therefore required a combination of skills and experience. It was supposed to be an enjoyable activity, since it was fieldwork. Trouble began almost instantly when the team members disagreed on the manner of reporting and the duties for each. Selecting a leader among us was even more difficult since everyone had formed small cohorts within the team. At the end of it, carrying out the w...
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