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[divam4646]

#4 High Performing Team

I've played sports since I was a young child. In high school, I started playing volleyball. When I was in eighth grade, everything began. I used to leave early from class to practice volleyball. My play grew quickly. Later, I was selected to join the team for my school. I used to follow my captain without fail. He used to lead and direct the entire team, and I used to be a good follower and always do what he said. We also received the national trophy as a result. I felt quite proud at the time.

I believe team efforts and leadership skills made our volleyball team a High Performing Team.

I was part of my team at that time and I used to obey my captain wholeheartedly and followed each and every instruction given by him.

Overall everything in the team was perfect. But I believe there was some coordination issue at that time, which could have been resolved.

I believe each situation can be handled easily by talking with the other person and listening carefully to them. Lastly, create a strategy to address each conflict.

In order to relax my teammates, I could have cracked some jokes and lightened up the situation if teammates are relaxed they perform really effectively and efficiently.

[shayanlar99]

My High Performing Team Experience

I had the chance to be in a high performing team within my volunteer work at the Breakfast for Santa Foundation, where we had many opportunities to show our different skills to perform tasks and organize the event as well. Here’s what happened and how my experience was during my time with the high performing team.

I believe the team was high performing since we each had to perform different tasks that required different skills such as setting up Christmas decorations, had someone coordinate/manage the flow of materials such as food or additional decorations and we had to take part in serving guest food or any other needs they might want. We also had the opportunity to work with new people effectively and efficiently to benefit the workflow of the event. We were measured based on how well we perform our tasks and so we each were more motivated to organize the event effectively. during my team with performing with the team, I had the opportunity to contribute towards them by managing materials that would come into the banquet hall where the event had to be set up in, set up more complicated decorations that required more labour and communicated with the main coordinator of the event to update them on the progress so far with setting up the decorations as well. I also was required to serve families with different needs or wants similar to being a waiter within a restaurant and I had to sign in guests who are on the list for the event. Looking back to my participation within the team, I believe there needed to be more trust between each of the members since there were times where many tasks that were completed by different individuals were either interfered with and criticized by other members as well. I noticed this throughout my task of putting up bigger decorations, which required more labour and so I noticed many incidents where many people were not agreeing with the creative direction or just criticizing the set up of them. I also thought that there needed to be a slight improvement in communication between each member since there were some incidents where some tasks were done incorrectly due to the main coordinator messing up the instructions to perform them and so it slightly affected our goal of getting everything done on schedule. Based on my role within the group, I believe that I would’ve changed my role in the team by pushing myself to communicate more towards other team members since I didn’t dare to ask questions and get clarification on certain tasks. This prevented me from completing some tasks correctly and I still had unanswered questions towards the end of the event as well.

When it comes to solving the conflict in a team, I tend to focus on looking at everyone's side of the story by using my strength harmony, negotiate with the group regarding the overall problem and immediately come up with effective solutions to solve the issue. I believe this has worked well for me in terms of developing a team as well as myself since I’m able to effectively solve the issue by increasing the number of voices in the conversation to find areas where all parties can agree on and can work through tasks effectively. I’m also able to benefit myself by showing my leadership strength of being harmonic with the situation, continuously show improvements in my problem-solving skills and improve my reputation as a leader as well. If I had to choose another approach to solving problems within a team, I would focus more on solving the issue in a more accommodating style, where I meet the needs of others at the expense of the persons own needs and I’m able to focus more on the issue rather than just focusing on winning within the situation. This also would benefit me from creating peace among the issue rather than being one-sided and hypocritical about the conflict.

After my experience with working in a high performing team, one thing that I would do differently when working in future teams is to focus on commitment and here is why. When being committed among my team, I'm able to encourage lively debate as well as ensure that each individual's ideas are heard and considered. I also would be able to identify what each individual personally wants to get from the team project and integrate that need to the project. It also builds stronger relationships with each other and encourages better ways of dealing with delays and frustrations among a group.

Overall, this is what happened within my experience with working in a high performing team, what I might change from it, how I would respond as well as how I can better deal with conflict and one thing that I would do differently when working in future teams.

[danishsharda]

High Performing Team

 While at high school i was assigned a project that was to be completed in a team. So i was working with a team which had high technical and communication skills. The project had a deadline of a month. The leader of the team was very efficient and hardworking. So, i was very excited and a little nervous on working with this high performing team.

1.Most high-performance team members report that working on collaborative teams is fun and satisfying because they are asked to contribute to their highest potential and learn a lot along the way.Following are the things that made my team a high performing team:

a) Everyone was working for the same goal.

b)They had solid and deep trust in each other.

c)Disagreement was viewed as a good thing and conflicts were managed.

d)Everybody understood  both team and individual performance goals and knew what was expected.

e)The team leader was inspiring and their was mutual respect in between all of the team members.

f)The team made decisions when there was natural agreement.

2. So i was a new member of the team, so i was assigned the tasks that very not very tough to complete.So i made my contribution by completing all tasks on time. I communicated well with my team members.The tasks that i was supposed to do were important in order to complete the project. So i did my best to complete my tasks and contributed to the team development.

3.As i look back now, the changes that i would like to make about the team are very less as it was a high performing team. Following are the changes i would like to make:

a)Their should be some interactions that were not based on the project.

b)Workplace should have been environment friendly.

I would have loved to get a role that had more challenges in it.I love being challenged so i would have been more challenged if i had some other role in the project. I would have learned more about the project as well.

4.To be honest i am not that good at handling conflicts in a team.But i try my best to resolve a conflict. Communication is the key part to resolve a conflict. If we communicate we would know what the conflict is and we could handle the situation properly. Communication helps a lot in developing team and developing myself as by communicating we get to know about the tasks which we have to do and it creates a mutual respect in between the team.

Another approach to handling conflict would be to take help of your senior managers which have handled these type of situations and they would help us by suggesting what to do to resolve the conflict.

5.One thing that i would do differently when working in future teams is that i would communicate with the team members in person  because this will help me know about each team member personally and it would help me know about how they work in a team.