BUS 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Playtime, Decision-Making, Becky Mode
Document Summary
When you work on a team, you improve your interpersonal skills, expand your personal network, and use your best individual strengths while learning new skills from others. Team: two or more people who recognize and share a commitment to a common goal and who collaborates in their efforts to achieve that goal. Productivity: the rate, quality or effectiveness of effort. A measure of a person, machine, factory, system. Part 1: how do you communicate effectively as part of a team. Most commonly noted key success factor for effective team performance is communication. Common barrier to effective team communications is unnecessary conflict. All team members need to agree on key elements at the beginning of the project. First, focus on process issues: deciding what they need to do, who is going to do it, how you will work together. If specific elements of team members have been agreed upon first, a great deal of unnecessary conflict will be avoided.