Team Project : Team Program

People work in groups or teams everyday whether in their career, education, political organization, church, or any other social setting. Conflict while working in teams or groups is inevitable. When taking people of different backgrounds, personalities, moral, and ethical beliefs and putting them together in a group, conflict will arise. The key to achieving your team goals is to construct and conquer your goals with keeping the greater good of the team in mind. Conflict as it arises should be combated and abated through swift and thorough resolution techniques. When dealt with properly conflict resolution can give rise to a cohesive and productive team.

The fundamental purpose of this project is for the team to collaborate to find innovative solutions for unmet needs within our company, Digital Monitoring Product Inc. Group 26 will analyze and evaluate each individual’s contribution based on his or her potential for the greatest success within the company and within each of the concepts individual market. The paper will act as a guide and direct one through the process of Team 26’s voyage through each concept eventually leading up to

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

Disagreements are unavoidable in any business. A humble stage of disagreement can be helpful in creating enhanced thoughts and approaches, stimulating apprehension and resourcefulness, and motivating the appearance of long-suppressed tribulations. Conflict resolution approach must intend at keeping disagreement at a stage at which different thoughts and viewpoints are completely voiced but uncreative conflicts are discouraged. Encouragement of conflict situations is suitable if the project leader recognizes circumstances of 'group-think.' Group-think is a circumstance where disagreement hardly ever occurs because of high-minded group unity, which results in poor choices and insufficient production. Group-think conquers when there are a large number of members in a group that just agree with anything, with the outcome that there is no grim assessment of the circumstances and innovative thoughts are not recommended. Group members connect larger significance to status, stillness and calm in the group relatively than to procedural capability and capability. Members are unwilling to voice their impartial outlook in order to shun away from offending the

My group consisted of four other members-Christy, Daniel, Brian, and Allison. When we were first introduced to the idea of a small group project we knew that our presentation had to entertain the audience, and at the same time inform them. At that point, we were functioning as individuals. Each of us tossed out a ton of ideas and some were shot down right away. That took about 5minutes. Then Daniel mentioned that we can do a parody of the television show Change of Hearts, and it stuck to us like glue. Gradually we began to feed into his revelation, and started to add our personal touches. Each of us became elaborators. For about 15 minutes we took the idea and expanded it to see where it could lead

From the beginning of the live marketing project, Edmond's Historical Museum, to the end of the live presentation, I committed 100% of myself to the team by being actively involved. My first contribution was visiting the Edmond's Historical Museum on September 28th, 2017 where I gathered notes by effectively listening to Katie Kelly. This was for the purpose of being able to analyze the data at a later time. The data research that I was able to gleam from Katie, included that the museum is seeing a decline in their memberships, there was not enough volunteers to actively seek out renewals, and a majority of the Edmond's transplants moved changing the demographics, and that new exhibits would come

In the case of the Techfite group, the conflict they are facing is an intragroup conflict, due to interpersonal disagreements. An intragroup conflict occurs within the group among the individuals. Misunderstandings and incompatibilities between teammates leads to this type of conflict (Evans, 2013). As in the conflict being discussed, Bill and Mark are trying to take over the project themselves and are not allowing Laura to voice her opinions or contribute to the project. Also, John and Laura are against trying the new compound that Bill and Mark are advocating to try. The team is becoming more divided due to difference in opinions about taking risks and due to superiority from Bill and Mark. With conflicts arising, the team is breaking apart and that is causing deadlines to not be met and slowing the project down as a whole. There are a few different approaches to take to resolve conflict, but in this case the approach I would use would be the integrating/problem solving technique. This style of conflict resolution is defined as when “interested parties confront the issue and cooperatively identify the problem, generate and weigh alternatives and select a solution”(Evans, 2013). I would use the technique of problem solving because in this case the Techfite project team is all working towards reaching the same goal, with their careers on the line.

TeamSTEPPS® can enhance an organization by organizing the collaborative team. This program is designed to improve patient care by enhancing communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. TeamSTEPPS teaches health care providers new communication techniques, importance of mutual support and situational monitoring. These critical components can prevent infection, medication errors, and other common areas in the healthcare workplace.

We all started to get to know each other and progressively became more comfortable with each other. However inhibitions proved to be inversely proportional to the level of conflict. In the second meeting, members were more aggressive with their suggestions and it was extremely hard to come to a consensus on one idea. My idea of starting a company had some consensus, but other ideas were still being floated. I sorely missed the presence of a clear leader in a situation like this. As a group we tried to accommodate as many people’s interests and ideas as possible. However a leader sometimes has to put his foot down since it is impossible to account for every single one of them. However, no one wanted to be the person who acknowledges this fact. Thus we spent the entire meeting time arguing, debating, and going back and forth. We made absolutely no progress during this time. We had reached our ‘Storming’

I have done many team projects in my school, where we were able to achieve good grade because of knowledge sharing, team work, and great output. One recent example, I was in training with USCIS for the Form I800A. I was very close with my supervisor and training instructor while making every decision, because we did not want to make any wrong decision. In one incident, I issued request for evidence for child abuse registry check, which should not be older than 15 months old. The USCIS practice emphasized on "the child abuse registry checks should not be older than 15 months old", but this is not in any regulation. So, the adoption service provider challenges me based on the legal weaknesses, however, USCIS officer reserved some rights before making a decision, which we interduce to the Adoption Service Provider with legal consultation of USCIS attorney. My Supervisor, mentor and team constantly coped me during the struggle. The coordination between Washington DC, Supervisor, Section Chief, and team allowed me deal with the situation, and finally, we were able to get positive response from the ASP, and applicants. I believe collaboration, conflict resolution, taking responsibilities, respect on different point of views, and setting a common goal are vital elements in team building, which performed during my

Conflict between team members will happen in the workplace because the fact that there will have an environment where decisions are made and personality clashes will occur. This doesn’t mean you have an unproductive workforce, it means you will have to be able to catch the problem early and know what to do with each individual case. People are going to disagree because they have different view points, different backgrounds and a different thought process, maybe even a different agenda for that project. People disagree for a number of reasons (De Bono, 1985). College graduates will be put into positions of uncertainty due to the lack of work history. This will in turn cause conflict, not knowing

Among the five strategies the one I appreciate the most is competition. Competition is useful in other avenues as well as conflict management, such as academics. Although competition does require a loser it does a good job of stimulating teams to put out best efforts. Further, competition saves time when there is a deadline looming. When working in a group conflict is an inevitable matter that one cannot escape, there are varieties of conflicts; ideas, opinions, beliefs, culture differences, and desired accomplishment. Everyone have different ideas and goals in accomplishing their tasks, therefore, it might be difficult to be dealt with amongst one another if they cannot come to an agreement or have an open mind for new things. Conflict in a group could mean that there is a diversity of believes, aims, and ideas. It indicates that team members are contributing their part, sharing their different point of view and trying to make a different. As a manager, one should not look at conflict as a bad thing; instead tolerate minimum conflict in a group as a way of motivation and a development method for improvement or exchanging ideas to reach their goals. However, if conflict increase and cannot be settled in a professional or peaceful manner, as a manager, I would use the collaboration strategy method to help solve the issues. I would start to request each team members to do their own participation and write down their ideas with a

The dynamics of a team relies heavily on the interaction of team members during times of conflict not just during times of agreement. Often groups seek to achieve a cohesive relationship in an effort to unite the team towards its goals. Group members can make the mistake of subverting conflict in an attempt to maintain this team unity. Conflict serves a valuable role in effective group interactions that must be understood by participants of a team. An examination into the characteristics of conflict and cohesion and the relationship between the two dynamics can provide perspective to

Conflict is inevitable and at times stimulates beneficial or creative thinking. Often conflict is a signal that people are miscommunicating and making different assumptions about what has gone unspoken. The conflict in itself is not the problem. It is the team’s reactions to it that determines the impact, thus causing it to be a negative experience. Conflict or divergence can be destructive or it can be constructive. It is up to the people involved in the conflict to manage the outcome. This gives them an opportunity to articulate their assumptions and figure out a way to come to agreement. In a learning team situation, conflict can arise when the original agreement to work together does not address

Being involved in a group project was a challenge for me, due to the fact that we had some communication problems between our group members in the beginning. First of all, we started with a brainstorming, analysing the opportunities of companies around Hendon Central. More than this, we agreed on the same firm and started our work. Within a teamwork, there are some challenges that occur such as remaining focused on a direction, splitting equally the work and choosing a good leader. Bearing all this in mind, I might say that we did our best during the presentation and we coped with the minor communication issues. From this experience, I realized that I am a good leader and I can manage efficiently a project.