Team Development: The Key to Effective Business Communication

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Reflective Practice Assignment
Reflective essay has always added to the effort required in understanding course study
and this reflective essay will reflect upon my understanding of my course unit study. This
essay will particularly reflect on week nine’s study i.e. team development. To understand the
concept in clearer way, this essay will utilise literature review on team development as
provided in scholarly articles. For working in contemporary organisation, this concept will
help me in comprehending my core responsibilities while developing and working within
teams. As I went through the literature and my class notes, I found that groups within
organisations are the chosen members who unites together and take responsibility for
completing desired job in specified time period. In this reflective report, I would reflect upon
different theories associated with team development as presented in literature along with
mentioning other two concepts which will help in my future course as a professional
practitioner.
Groups help in bringing unity among organisations by letting each member know
about other team members’ knowledge and ideas. The mutual bonding is created through
team creations and thus tasks are completed efficiently. Since I aspire to become a human
resource manager in my future career, understanding team development concept will help me
in developing effective communication within my teams. According to Kumar, Deshmukh &
Adish, (2014), “Building effective team is necessary for creating an appropriate
organizational environment” (pp.208). Indeed, since primary objective behind creating a team
cannot be fulfilled unless a team is developed strategically and in a planned way. In literature,
it has been very well documented that teams form a general unit to accomplish business
objectives for which teams and its members need to follow proper team development stages
as per requirement. This has been realised by me through my practical experiences as well
when I was assigned in a team in which every member belonged to diversified backgrounds.

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Due to communication barrier, we had to face many difficulties since during that time we
were unaware about theories related to team development stages while working in teams.
During my entire ten weeks course study, I came through various concepts related to
effective communication and how efficiently teams provide positive effect in organisational
culture. According to Adnan, Akram & Akram (2013), group building plays a major role in
motivating individuals to enhance their self-control ability whenever they exploit their inner
capabilities. Similar statement has been proven by Allen (2018) where the author has
discussed about how team development can convert organisations into healthier workplaces.
Effective teams not only help in moving organisations towards better opportunities, but also
enhances networking and learning experience for individuals who share common learnings
with each other’s. Ravi & Sumanthi (2016) elaborates by comparing teams that do not
understand the importance behind working within teams and those groups who shares each
other’s responsibility and efforts while moving towards desired objective. The groups , who
cultivate a responsibility sharing habits understand will always generate enhanced learning
experience . In addition , they will be more capable to adapt to any changes during the times
of problem-solving stages for enhanced work production.
In the year 1965, a comprehensive team development stages were introduced by
Bruce Tuckman after the author reviewed fifty articles related to team development stages
(Hingst, 2006). According to the first stage in Tuckman’s team development model, for every
team, their forming stage is crucial in which every team members are provided with an initial
work to understand their capabilities. During this stage, individuals unite together to
formulate procedures and requirements that can accomplish a common goal. They also get to
introduce themselves and their core capabilities that can prove beneficial for the desired task.
The second stage comprises storming stage which is also considered as one of the most