Tuesday, 26 March 2013



Today's session focused around the topic teamwork.This subject is very essential for us as students because most of our assignments are based on group works like presentations and debates but often there is disagreements and differences among team members. 


Teamwork is important as it allows goals to be reached in an efficient and timely method and is one of the core fundamental skills employers are looking for.Teamwork combines many different skills from many people, allowing achievements to be made but the important factor we must understand is what makes an effective team.
Danyel gave us a presentation that highlighted around characteristics of effective team.This presentation helped me to understand the fact that a teamwork can only be successful if we have commitment to a goal,active participation, open communication,decision making and effective use of ideas.

I can relate this to my own workplace as most of our work is related to team activities.  Although i am particularly good at working in teams, at times i tend to get very stressed out and loose focus but on the positive side i am a good implementer and i take instruction very well rather than leading the team.

To be an effective member in future i will focus on observing and listening more to what the other member has to contribute. My past experience working as a group with my class mates has helped me realize the things we should not repeat and areas of improvements we need to focus on. Communication barriers has been an issue in my past projects therefore for the coming group assignments i will make sure  clear instruction is given out and each members have understood the task.
Below i have linked some interesting videos i came across on effective teamwork.


No comments:

Post a Comment