A Well-Functioning Team

3.What are key aspects of a well-functioning team?

For a team to work effectively and efficiently, all team members must agree upon a common goal or idea that they are willing to work towards. Once all members share their ideas and can come to an agreement as a team, then work should be spilt up equally amongst team members. Depending on each team member’s strengths, it can help determine how to split up roles and work load. When roles are given to each member it breaks up the work load and doesn’t leave one individual in the team doing all the work. When breaking up the roles I think it is important to assign a leader of the team to keep everyone on track. To have a well-function team, there must also be clear and affective communication. Without communication the team will not know how other team members are doing, or if someone needs help. When the team has effective communication

Having all team members agree upon the same goal or idea can be challenging especially when each team member has their own way of looking or thinking about things. Team members often want to speak up and state their opinion but can be intimidated that the team will disagree so they stay quite instead. Individuals all of their own way of solving problems, doing research and meeting goals so when trying to meet team goals it can be challenging to have all members on the same page. Another issue among team members can be members being unprofessional or disrespectful to other team members, this can also result in poor communication skills. In addition, work loads or roles can become a key issue because not all team members full their weight and rely on other team members to do all the work, when this happens in can become awkward to approach individuals about doing their shear of work. They are many things that can cause issues and negativity within a team and discourage members from speaking up and asking