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Team Playing
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry and enquiry to truth. (Thomas Jefferson)
Key Learning Points
- Team interaction frequency and team performance
- Information sharing in teams
- Barriers to team decision making
- How to improve team decision making
- How to build a sense of safety in teams
Being a team player means having a clear focus on working as a team member to enable the team to achieve its objectives and working towards that. Being a team player means being positive and supportive to all other team members and creating an atmosphere of confidence, enjoyment and engagement in the team. Being a team player means continually working to ensure good relationships in the team and between the team and the rest of the organization. In essence, being a team player means participating fully in the team.
We create teams in order to utilize the skills, knowledge and abilities of people who make up the team in ways that ensure their collective efforts enable them to accomplish tasks they could not manage alone. Participation involves encouraging team members to meet together, share information and ideas, and debate fully and intelligently the best way of accomplishing the task of providing products or services for customers and clients. Team participation involves team members taking individual and collective responsibility for team objectives, team strategies and team processes. While team work implies differentiation of roles and responsibilities and thereby that ...
