A631.2.5.RB - Cooperation and Competition

         According to Brown (2011), a team is a group of individuals with complementary skills who depend upon one another to accomplish a common purpose or set of performance goals for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.  I had the privilege to be teamed up with some of the most exceptional and professional individual I had the chance to work with. Our first team project was to construct a team charter, to identify objectives, member’s strength and expectation for the team. Some of the behaviors that seemed to help our team were, professionalism, initiative, and innovation.  The team established communication during the first week of the term: the professionalism and initiative exhibited from the team member was above average. One of our team member, proposed to set up weekly conference calls to go over assignment coming due and to communicate any concerns of the team. This was a great and innovative idea, which worked perfectly for our team. At this point there no factors that is inhibiting our decision-making or problem –solving. This outcome is due to the way the team is communicating and the high level of interaction; and the level of teamwork is done when the members subordinate their personal prominence for the good of the team (Brown, 2011).

         Problem solving is something as leaders we are faced with. The team approached decision in a systematic process, by assigning leaders to upcoming group projects. This creates a structure where the workload was distributed and objectives identified.  The team main source of communication was via discussion post on Canvas and secondary was e-mail. We scheduled weekly conference calls to help answer any questions about the tasking from the group. The team has an interdependent power structure, in which we all contribute to the success of the team. According to Brown (2011), interdependence refers to situations where one person’s performance is contingent upon how someone else performs.

         So far, the team is transparent to what the expectation are from each members. The collaboration on the team charter was productive and the assignment was completed well ahead of the deadline.  Each team completed their part on time and no issues came up during the process. I’m satisfied with the level of communication and workload distribution among the team member.  No process intervention was needed because of the level of participation was high; however, this is a tool available if we see the necessity for it.  I only see great things coming from this team, and looking forward to learning from everyone’s experiences.

Reference:  Brown, D. R. (2011). An Experimental Approach to Organization Development (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall