Key Components of Effective Team

Key Components of Effective Team 1
THE KEY COMPONENTS OF MY EFFECTIVE TEAM
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Key Components of Effective Team 2
THE KEY COMPONENTS OF MY EFFECTIVE TEAM
Developing an effective team requires the understanding of various components of an
effective team. Many of these components have been incorporated in my team to ensure effective
team. In my team, the major constituents of an effective team include cohesiveness,
communication, collaboration, and communication among the team members. Other components
include coordination efforts, directly confronting problems, conflict management, and making
informed decisions through consensus and compromise (Alsharo, Gregg and Ramirez 2017).
I have always acknowledged that a good and effective team goal encompasses a
desirable state of affair members intend to bring about via combined efforts. A precise
understanding of the objective of the team via well-articulated goals remains the most
characteristic feature of a successful and productive team. Our team has been facing the problem
of togetherness before, and this is why I had to identify the key components and integrate them
into my team to become effective (Rao 2016).
To ensure team effectiveness, I had to facilitate the establishment of most shared
purpose, which is needed to complete the assigned tasks within the allocated schedule. We
randomly chose the team members and brought them together. The member was undertaken
through five phases based as suggested Tuckman theory to facilitate the accomplishment of
group assignment (Kozlowski 2015).
In each team, the team composition is required for a team to work effectively. Team
composition refers to the attributes and nature of the team members. While there are small and
big groups or team within an organization, team composition is fundamental. The competent
team requires members with relevant expertise, moderate differences, and interpersonal skills
concerning their backgrounds. There is no point of inclusion of many individuals into the group

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or team if they lack suitable complementary skills that allow them to contribute to the
achievement of team goals. Thus, my team was effective since it captured this element of the
composition, and it has ensured that we have complementary relevant skills and qualities that
allow the team goals to be achieved. Another essential feature of our group is that we appointed
team members onto the team where everyone feels she fits well and not to feel she is wasting
time. This was effective in our team since this has been the main reasons many teams remain
ineffective as they get appointed in teams where they usually feel that they are wasting time and
hence get discouraged and demoralized thereby failing to contribute to the achievement of the
team goals. Therefore, we acknowledged this aspect of appointment and ensured that we have a
blend of the desired mix of the workforce, right people, expertise, and skills. Our team remains
effective since, during any discussion, every member adheres to absolute values embedded on
three significant ethics in our team. These values include non-assertive, good manners, harmony
and cooperation; relationship building, and trust. Such values have always influenced the extent
of our team cohesiveness and norms.
We only ensure that every team member gets to understand their roles in the team. The
roles in our team are the expected patterns of behavior we attribute to members occupying
specific positions in the team. We have various functions that our members play within the team.
We have adopted the nine roles and have assigned members in such position to ensure the
effectiveness of our team. These roles include promoter, creator, linker, assessor, producer,
organizer, controller, advisor, maintainer as well as judge. Every team role has specific
weaknesses and strengths that are essential for all our members to effectively identify themselves
and more significantly, our members always match the roles with required skills alongside
preferences to balance off weakness with equal strength.