Effective Team Working and Communication

This report from Desklib discusses effective team working and communication, including how to develop an effective team, the impact of teamwork on success, barriers to effective teamwork, and the types of roles needed for cohesive and effective teams. The report includes a case study of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and is relevant to students in any course or program that requires teamwork.

Effective Team Working and
Communication

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
How student can develop an effective team................................................................................1
Discuss the impact of effective team working can have success of team success.......................3
Barriers of Effective teamwork...................................................................................................4
Discuss the types of roles which create or needed cohesive and effective team.........................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Effective team working means about the collaborative efforts of a group to accomplish
common goal or to finishing task within the most effective and efficient way (Petkova, Domingo
and Lamm., 2021). The concept is seen within the greater framework of specific team which
group of interdependent individual who work together towards a common goals. Good teamwork
means a synergetic way of working with each person committed and working towards a goals. In
this report, it reflect the case study of University of Wales Trinity Saint David is very diverse in
terms of gender, demographics, age, background, and experience. In this, the situation arise that
during presentation student faces challenges as of culture diversified.
MAIN BODY.
How student can develop an effective team.
An effective team is having capacity of better team approach as they has to accomplish the
goals or objectives administrated through an authorised where they better personal or the
organisation. It depend upon team members who are potential and having better time
management along with better vision of life. They must share their vision, measure goals
challenges and opportunities through which proper planning or strategies included (Mostafapour
and Hurst., 2020). As the situation in University of Wales Trinity faces challenges or issues at
the time of presentation where better culture diversified.
By making effective team by using Model of Tuckman of team development that works on
within effective workplace:
Tuckman Team development: It is essential as very workplace is very essential for development
and success of enterprise because working team not only ensure completion of all business in
specific period of time. So, it is very important for University of Wales Trinity as they faces to
better perform to effective satisfy the target customer. For developing team there is a model
which is known as Tuckman model of team development which uses by Students where they can
easily reform a better team formation by following these important steps are:
 Forming: This is the first stage, in which all team member are come together and interact
with each other. All member remembered that they are depended on leaders for better
direction. Since this roles and responsibilities where to effectively perform by every team
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member with remain are unclear. In this, University of Wales Trinity leader can bring all
team member and make their induction practice to get to know each other very well.
 Storming: In this all team member do hard work to better develop maintained effective
relationship with others. In this all member of team are clear about the main objective of
working together (Koolwijk, van Oel and Gaviria Moreno, 2020). This is very important
for all member to focus more set objectives so team can accomplish the same. Further in
this, University of Wales trinity can make more vulnerable way to better execute
relationship with students. This can help to better understand each other behaviour and
emotions.
 Norming: According to this stage, where in this team member to undertaken the decision
are must conducted through discussion. Through with this, team can reform their own
styles and process where they could attain the positive way of outcomes. For University
of Wales and Trinity can adopt better leadership styles such as Situational Leadership
where this style can help to leader to mitigate the risk factor effectively.
 Performing: This is fourth stage, in this team where members are well aware and clear
about their opinion or objectives is been clear effectively. There is main focus of all team
member overreaching of gaols and all decision are undertaken on effective criteria with
better set by leaders (Waltz, 2020). As this stage would help to University of Wales and
Trinity student can perform in high performance would drive within effective manner.
 Adjourning: This is a fifth of Tuckman Model consist breakup of the group. After
fulfilment with having purpose with every individual can move to do new things
effectively. Through this, University of Wales and Trinity student can segregate their
group within the better fulfilment of individual to do new things.
There are various elements which makes an effective as compare to ineffective teams as
given below:
 Communication: It is known one of the most effective element in an administration. As
the proper communication where among all team members to ensure execution of all
activities in time period. In this it remove the confusion and make all people with aware
about their important roles and responsibilities. As the communication brings
cooperation and make a team an effective one. As the proper communication should be
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used by students of University of Wales and Trinity for communicating effectively and
perform in presentation better manner.
 Size of team: There are number of individual in team where it has another factor which
better determines its effectiveness. It is observed that having small good coordination as
compare within large team due to ease communication among all team member. In
perspective of University of Wales and Trinity create more team member, if there is
number of member in team the work would divided as per the individual competency
aspects.
Discuss the impact of effective team working can have success of team success.
As the team would not work on teamwork coordination, team work is having plays
important for the success of all business. The situation of University of Wales and Trinity
students are facing issues diversity where outcomes would not generated in proper manner.
There are some of effective team factors which determines important to be succeed in further
outcomes.
 Bring new innovative ideas: The every business or project need innovative ideas to
implement certain change and generate positive outcomes. In this competitive world,
innovative ideas must require to sustain and mitigate the competitors and challenges
influenced. For University of Wales and Trinity, their students must require to implement
new innovative ideas for enhance better positive outcomes in effective manner. Through
team work, it creates more opportunities to bring new behaviour and process that students
can execute the presentation in excellence manner.
 Teamwork helps solve problem: There is association within the group to solve issues in
complex situation. Similarly, University of Wales and Trinity students can also face
issues like not having coordination between student team member, lack of
communication, resources and others (Mahmood, Mohammed and Gilbert, 2021). To
mitigate all these issues team work come together and create strategies to mitigate the
issues.
 It Supportive: As teamwork creates a system that deadlines are met by providing quality
of work. It is better supportive when one team member falls and another team member is
pick up pieces. In this University of Wales and Trinity can make help to student’s team
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member must support to each other. With this, it easily accomplishes the task in
successful manner by making proper strategic plan or get guidance through leader.
 Team work build morale: The work is valued is to better contribute to something that
provide to produce the results. By providing the ideas can generate better productivity.
By working together member of team which feels strong sense of belonging with deep
commitment towards each other common goals. In perspective of University of Wales
and Trinity team work increase to build morale where they offer rewards and motivation
learnings that increase the efficiency to generate positive outcomes.
Evaluation:
According to above team effectiveness factors which helps to get team impact towards succeed
to attain more outcomes accomplished. Further it allows to make more development in which
University of Wales and Trinity student can provide their presentation by coordination through
team effectiveness.
Barriers of Effective teamwork.
There are some barriers in making of effective team work in perspective of University of Wales
and Trinity where they get to work individual by focusing on efforts of individual to faces
challenges:
 Individual shrinking their duties: Since team members are sharing their responsibility
for generating outcomes, some of individual might need to attain additional work through
not contributing the efforts. This could raise failure of team to establish clear norms of
accountability for individual to measure contributing efforts.
 Lack of trust: Through effective collaboration requires to team member to increase
confidence that every share a set of goals. The lack of trust can also leads
miscommunication and mis-understanding which can undermine the group efforts.
 Lack of team skills: When team is having not collaboration skills which is needed to
well with others as the overall ability of the team towards the function can be limited (Shi
and Mohamad,., 2020). On the basis of results, there can be situation that team would not
have proper expertise and knowledge of leader who can guide or provide valuable
information within effective manner.
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 Stuck in formation: In this sometimes group where it cannot move of defining goals and
outlining task to executing it work plan. This might creates due to poor specification of
roles, task and priorities.
Evaluation:
In this above issues and challenges in making of effective team working can face by
University of Wales and Trinity student at the time of their presentation. Through this, above
main are the basic challenge where team get to fall in their project. If there is not having proper
coordination or facing any other issues that creates more implication in their project
effectiveness.
Discuss the types of roles which create or needed cohesive and effective team.
There are main types of cohesive team to make effective team in perspective of University of
Wales and Trinity where their presentation can execute in proper manner. Some of the ways are
described in following about how effective team can be cohesive:
 Establish a mission: This is the most important factor which enhance to determine
about selecting member in better tea, decision. The decide of the goals where how
groups can better accomplish those goals within effective manner.
 Seeking for diversity: The most successful team which require diversity. The diverse
team have access to many people to evaluating skills and experiences (McEwan and
Beauchamp., 2020). With a diverse group will be able to pull form all these experiences
in order to accomplish the mission.
 Practice teamwork: Team work exercise are the best way to see about how individual
member where they work coordinate to attain task outcomes effectively.
 Utilise the strength of individual: It is important to determine the strength of each
member and assign team to specific task based on better strength. To delegating based on
strength is the best of way group to accomplish its goals.
 Give feedback: By performing the team as perform in specific task where to ask experts
the review of performance. By getting multiple opinion can really shine through light of
flaws of process.
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CONCLUSION
From above report of team work is summarised about how creation of team is essential
for company to attain task in better positive outcomes attained. The impact of team
working create better team success to attained task by focused on certain factors such as
bringing innovative ideas, coordinating with team members etc. Thus, in last there
discussed about barriers of team working and attain more complex situation arised to
form cohesive effective team.
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