Benefits of Teamwork
In this task, I will evaluate three teams overall effectiveness in meeting its objectives, and I will make recommendations for improvements. The activities I will discuss are: Woodland Wilderness Survival, Lost at Sea and Constructing a tower from paper.
Woodland Wilderness Survival
The objective of this activity was to first initially answer 12 questions concerning personal survival in a wilderness. The members of the team then discuss the answers and make a decision as a team for answers to the 12 questions.
In this task, there was a Primary Leader and a Secondary Leader who were Iratu and me (Pooja) respectively. While Iratu approached the activity with a Laissez-faire leadership style, I approached it with a Democratic leadership style. Having two leaders with different leadership styles complimented the effectiveness of the group as there were best of both worlds. Iratu’s leadership gave every member in the group time to process each question and therefore left no strain upon any member. My leadership ensured that every member had equal participation in the group and their opinions were voiced. The two leaders worked concertedly; I collected everyone’s views and analysed them making it easier for Iratu to make an ultimate decision. Due to this collaboration, a decision was made easily
The team’s other members included Lee and Nicole. Lee and Nicole were both participative and powerful members. Lee was subtly argumentative which not only made the task entertaining but forced everyone to further analyse their answer and think imaginatively using new ideas instead of traditional and expected ideas. Due to that energy, we were able to think from a different perspective which indeed resulted in getting more answers correct. Nicole’s participation in the team was extremely vital as she had personal experience in that environment and was therefore able to relate to the questions more than the other team members. Nicole was also aware of some of the
Woodland Wilderness Survival
The objective of this activity was to first initially answer 12 questions concerning personal survival in a wilderness. The members of the team then discuss the answers and make a decision as a team for answers to the 12 questions.
In this task, there was a Primary Leader and a Secondary Leader who were Iratu and me (Pooja) respectively. While Iratu approached the activity with a Laissez-faire leadership style, I approached it with a Democratic leadership style. Having two leaders with different leadership styles complimented the effectiveness of the group as there were best of both worlds. Iratu’s leadership gave every member in the group time to process each question and therefore left no strain upon any member. My leadership ensured that every member had equal participation in the group and their opinions were voiced. The two leaders worked concertedly; I collected everyone’s views and analysed them making it easier for Iratu to make an ultimate decision. Due to this collaboration, a decision was made easily
The team’s other members included Lee and Nicole. Lee and Nicole were both participative and powerful members. Lee was subtly argumentative which not only made the task entertaining but forced everyone to further analyse their answer and think imaginatively using new ideas instead of traditional and expected ideas. Due to that energy, we were able to think from a different perspective which indeed resulted in getting more answers correct. Nicole’s participation in the team was extremely vital as she had personal experience in that environment and was therefore able to relate to the questions more than the other team members. Nicole was also aware of some of the