Archives for the Month of October 2005 on Cory Rinkes's Online Journal
5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Trust is an element of a team that can never be overlooked. This is the reason that it is the bottom layer of the triangle of dysfunctions of a team. Without trust a team is broken up into a group of individuals. If an indivudual in a team trusts the other members of that team he is much more likely to only worry about what he needs to get done. When his mind is only on what he needs to do it helps him do the best job he possibly can. Multiply that over the entire team and your very likely to get any job done and get it done right.
My HR Team
My Human Resources Simulation team really gives me a positive attitude towards this project. In many of my previous group/team assignments I am the person that ends up having to do all of the work. So far on this project everyone seems ready and willing to do their own fair share of work. This is especially promising in the type of project we are doing. I feel that in this type of project our best resource is our minds. If we get more opinions out in the open it gives us the best chance to choose the correct options. I believe that our team has a very relaxed and open atmosphere when we meet, which helps us greatly in discussing different choices.
Group vs. Team
Before our class discussion of what the differences are of a group and a team I guess that I always just assumed they are the same. After class when I started thinking about it I guess that it really did start to make sense to me. I have a couple "groups" of friends. We occasionally do things together, but we aren't working toward the same goal all of the time with individual roles. Out of each "team" that I am on I know what my job is exactly and what I have to get done to help my team reach our goal. With this in mind it does make much more sense to have companies working towards creating a team environment. A team is much more efficient, and usually a closer bunch of individuals.
HR Simulation
The human resources simulation seems like a fairly enjoyable project. Running a company has always sounded pretty interesting to me, which is probably the reason I chose it as my major. Now I actually get at least somewhat of an idea on what this may be like. I think one problem that could come up is the conflicting schedules within our group. This is not a "real world" type of problem since in a workplace we would be toghether to work on projects together every day. This isn't too much of a problem though, and I believe we should be able to overcome it without much difficulty. I'm still a little curious to see how what type of results our decisions will make, I guess we'll have to see.