Healthy Team Communication Analysis

Communication is essentially the most important skill that any human being will ever have to learn. Communication includes approaching other human beings in verbal or nonverbal contact. In the Twenty-first-century, many academic environments are changing the way students learn. Schools are not a hierarchal model of a teacher in charge of a class of students. An example of a hierarchal model of education involves a teacher handing out an assignment and students completing the assignment, with no questions asked. In this particular hierarchal model, communication among classmates is often discouraged. Today, many academic environments are taking an equality approach to education and learning by working in small groups or teams of about 3-5 fellow
"Whether is be in business, with your children, or with your spouse, the essential skills for communication success will not only improve every aspect of your life, but it will transform it" (Du Plessis, 2007). Team communication will build healthy relationships with team members, future hopeful employers and employees. Team communication also helps a person learn and build lifelong skills such as, effective communication, professional writing skills, proper grammar usage, and learning to work together in a group. The most important part of team communication is to learn time management and to prioritize activities and projects. Without these skills, a team could essentially fall apart. Every team member will learn how to balance between their professional and personal lives. This is a very difficult skill to master even for graduate students and professors. Poor communication skills in a learning team can hurt every student academically and professionally. Some learning teams have an individual who is labeled the "bad-apple." This particular individual does not contribute to the team on purpose. This individual is always the one to point the finger at everyone but does not do anything to help himself. The lazy student's purpose is to hurt the team not help it (Amble, 2007) Gossip is the number one problem among many learning teams. Gossip is communication that is used to hurt a team member's feelings and ruin his or her reputation. This form of communication is not allowed in any type of team situation. This leads to a breakdown of academic and professional relationships among team members. Another problem with team communication is a team member with no motivation. This particular person does not care whether a project gets finished or not. The team member feels the situation is not important and they do not care about anyone else. No motivation often leads to no