Obstacles In Teamwork

There are both obstacles and opportunities that exist for teams that team members should be aware of to ensure that their team is efficient and effective in meeting their objectives and goals.

Obstacles, every team has them and if they go unaddressed they will impact the team success. Examples of typical obstacles include differences in personalities that lead to misunderstanding, personal or hidden agendas, members who seem to reject all new ideas and brings about negativity, a team that fails to completely analyze the situation and comes to decisions to quickly to avoid conflict, lacks adequate resources and support, ineffective leadership, members who resists change or new ways of thinking, scope creep, communication barriers, and not enough complimentary skills on the team. (Geddes, 2016)

On the other hand teaming brings opportunities which benefits to the organization. Since a team consists of a group of individuals, each person can bring their own ideas, experience and knowledge to the table. Because the team can draw on each other strengths more can be

In the onset of the organization of the team it would have been helpful to know what our final assignment was going to be. During the initial training we spent several days determining what our personalities were. We were several days into the process before we were given our complete assignment. It would have been more beneficial to have our goals introduced earlier in the process. This way our team could have been formulating ideas earlier. Another way I would have improved the process would have been to assign a team leader. One of our team members was set to do a rotation. Therefore he left half way through our project. Losing a team member placed a heavier burden on the team members left behind; a team leader could have eased that burden by assigning another member of the organization to the