Education Skills: Developing Effective Teams in Diverse Cohorts

This report explores the development of effective teams within diverse student cohorts, emphasizing the importance of clear communication and defined objectives. It discusses the impact of effective teamwork on overall team success, including improved operational efficiency and goal achievement. The report identifies common barriers to effective teamwork, such as shirking duties, lack of trust, and communication conflicts, and suggests strategies for overcoming these challenges. Furthermore, it outlines key roles needed for creating cohesive and effective teams, including leadership, creative direction, facilitation, and coaching, highlighting their contributions to team dynamics and goal attainment. The conclusion reiterates that effective teams are those that meet their objectives through strategic practices and skilled collaboration.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
How to develop an effective team...............................................................................................3
Impact effective team working can have over the success of team...........................................4
Barriers to effective teamwork....................................................................................................5
Types of roles needed for the creation of cohesive and effective team......................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Effective teamwork can be possible through effective communication within the team as it
allows for sharing ideas and problems as well (Cooper-Duffy and Eaker, 2017). The present
report is based on discussion pertaining to how effective team can be developed within the
diverse student cohort. The impact of effective team working that can leads to the success of the
team will be discussed further in this report. Also, various barriers that leads to ineffectiveness in
team working will be discussed in this report. At last, the explanation pertaining to various roles
that can be performed within the team to create effective and cohesive team will be done.
MAIN BODY
How to develop an effective team
Effective team is considered as all such teams that is effective enough to achieve the
assigned role. Effective team can be developed with the use of certain tactics and strategies that
involve clarifying the aim and objectives of the team. The clarification about the aim of the team
play a vital role for the team to achieve the high level; of efficiency in against to deliver the team
operations. Further the team leader can classify the individual role and responsibilities of all the
team members., This would allow the team members to have a specific role in the team. This is
an important feature of the effective team as every team member is aware in respect to its
individual role in the team. This would support the team members to improve the efficiency of
the whole team (Hall and et.al., 2018). Classification of each individual role of team members
allow the members of team to put a strategic effort towards one direction. This would allow the
team members to deliver better operational efficiency of the team. The team members in an
effective team take a regular team meeting to discuss the day to day activities of the team. This is
a very key practice that is undertaken by the effective team to deal with all different issues and
challenges team face. This support the leaders to solve all the various issues and challenges
members of teams to perform the respective and assigned role in the team. This allows and
support the team members to improve the individual efficiency by addressing all different issues
of the team. The team meeting of the effective team is a core basis of the discussion in respect to
all aspects of the team.
The effective team also involve the leaders setting the short term and long term goal of
the team. This is another core strategic choice utilise by the leader in the team to improve the

efficiency of the whole team. Leaders set the goals and target for every team members which the
members need to meet in the assigned deadline,. This further motive the team members to
perform more efficiently in the team. This is a very effective strategy adopted by the team
leaders to boost the efficiency of the team. This make the leader more directive towards
addressing the goals and objectives of the team. The key practice adopted by the effective team
is such that it involve constant motivation related practices adopted by the leaders. The leader of
thee effective team constantly engaged in motivating the employees to improve the skills and
individual capabilities in the team (Sayrs, 2018). The leader in the team also believe in the open
communication in between team members. This is an important feature related to an effective
team where members believe in an open communication about every single aspect of the team.
Communication become the key to achieve success by the team as this allow the members of
team to discuss every single aspect of the team. Role of communication is significant for the
team members to enrich the overall success of the team.
Impact effective team working can have over the success of team
Team working demonstrated as the operations and functions undertaken by the team to
deliver the business objectives. The role of team working is very significant in overall success of
team. The concept of team working allow the members in team to support the success of the
whole team. The effective team working is about to progress the team operations efficiently so
that entire team can achieve the objectives behind the formation of the team. Effective team
working involve clarifying every individual role in the team, justifying the objectives of the
whole team and its formation, segregation of responsibilities of the whole team, solving issues
and challenges face by the whole team (Juneja, 2020). The feature of effective team working is
such that it empower the members of team to approach the objectives of the team in the best way
possible. The impact of effective team working is to support the overall success and growth of
the business entity along with the team. The practice of effective team working is such that the
leaders in the team give proper emphasis over solving or dealing with all the issues face by the
team over a regular basis (Seftyandra, 2020). This allows the team members to approach all the
team operations in the best way possible. The role of the effective team working is such that the
member of the team allow and find it more suitable to ensure meeting up all different objectives
of the team.

Success of every team is highly influenced with the fact that how efficiently the whole
team is approaching its operation's to support the team objectives. The practices adopted by the
team is an important part for the team to ensure the success in the respective organisation.
Constant level of communication in team meeting over the progress of team operation motivate
all the members of team to put more efforts towards achieving the goal and objectives formed
behind the team formation (Jacobsson and Wilmar, 2019. This can justify that effective team
working put a huge impact over the operations of team. Success of every team is highly
influenced with the way team operate its functions and operations. The working style of the team
decide and formulate the standards which motivate and direct the team to achieve the overall
success and achieve all different objectives set behind the formation of the whole team.
Barriers to effective teamwork
Collaboration is the main factor due to which teams are formed as in a team many pitfalls
can be overcome that can arise while working individually. When individuals in a team are not
able to perform well due to prejudices that are already prevailing which acts as a challenge
towards accomplishing the assigned tasks efficiently and effectively (Gavrilă-Paven and Cordoș,
2017). Some common barriers that can come in the path of working effectively in a team due to
conflicts and challenges associated with communication arises on the ground cultural diversity in
the student cohort are as follows:
Shirking duties by individuals: Due to vast diversity in a student cohort it happens that
some are extraordinarily hard-working due to which they perform additional tasks over those
who are underperforming. This results in resentment and leads to the development of negative
feelings among team members and accordingly, team becomes ineffective.
Lack of trust: Effective teamwork requires effective collaboration which in turn requires
to have an inherent confidence among team members that they are sharing a set of goals equally.
In the absence of this confidence, members feel uncomfortable sharing their views, opinions and
ideas with others in a team (SHEHZAD, 2018). Accordingly, misunderstandings and
miscommunication can take place that undermines the efforts of team.
Conflicts hamper progress: Conflicts always arises when individuals having different
backgrounds are working together. It can have negative impacts on team performance and
accordingly ineffectiveness takes place which hampers team's progress.

Too much diversification: Diversity is being encouraged in a team but if it is much
higher than required, then it would result in ineffectiveness. Communication and coordination
becomes a complex task. Also, decision-making requires large amount of information to cater to
the needs of different individuals (Pandey and Karve, 2017). Outcomes can also get suffered due
to conflicts and consensus among team members. This leads to undermining of group think
which limits creativity, poor choice of alternatives and leads to many mistakes which in turn acts
as a barrier to effective team work.
Dominating team members: Many times it has been seen that members in a team are
dominating over other team members which affects fair and equitable participation of all the
team members and in turn poor performance of the team as those who are not able to utilize their
power to make decisions may feel demotivated and losses interest in accomplishing group goals
as they know that there efforts would not be getting recognized due to the presence of some
dominating team members. In this way, underperformance and less creativity arises in a team
and makes it ineffective.
Communication styles: In a team with vast diversity, there are higher chances that
diversity results in differing communication style among team members. As some have the habit
of communicating in a general sense while others prefer specific communication (Eisenberg,
Post and DiTomaso, 2019). This leads to the issue of inappropriate commands, instructions and
directions which affects the performance of team members and makes them ineffective.
Types of roles needed for the creation of cohesive and effective team
Creating an effective team and cohesive team becomes possible by starting with the right people,
putting and assigning them with the tasks in correct manner. Some roles that can be played by
different individuals in a team to form an effective and cohesive team are as follows:
Leadership role: Leaders play an important role of providing directions, motivation, vision to the
team members along with forming rules for the team to effectively and cohesively work with
each other in a team (Cooper-Duffy and Eaker, 2017). Leadership helps in establishing
cohesiveness which allows for effective communication in a team in addition to provide
directions for how to report things to the superiors. In this way, leader allows for accomplishing
team goal in the required manner by avoiding their prejudices associated with different cultural
aspects.

Creative director role: Goals can be achieved in effective manner with the help of creative
director who act as a source of developing creative energy which is core of any team's success.
They are someone who can think out of the box and introduce new and unique concepts towards
achieving team goals in an effective and cohesive manner. They maintain progressive and
collaborative energy among team members which is vital for any team to be effective and
cohesive.
Facilitator role: They help in decision-making within a team without having any formal
authority (Gavrilă-Paven and Cordoș, 2017). This role can be played by leaders in many cases
where they used to support team members in taking steps while confronting with problems at
workplace. They as a facilitator provides support to the team members in facilitating
cohesiveness and effectiveness. They facilitate effective communication among team members
by removing diversity of their characteristics, so with this, conflicts can be avoided to a large
extent and cohesiveness can be maintained to achieve the team goal.
Coach role: To provide support in one-to-one manner post training, coach has a great role. All
the issues arising post training are addressed by the coach and thus ensures effectiveness
(SHEHZAD, 2018). Also, when individuals are facing problems in collaborating with other team
members due to vast diversity, it is the coach who provide one-to-one support towards ensuring
cohesiveness among team members.
CONCLUSION
Effective team is demonstrated as all such teams that is able to achieve or meet the
objectives set behind the formation of whole team. The key characteristic of the effective team is
that the goals are set, roles are defined clearly and all these are the core features of team. Te
working of the team motivate the whole team to achieve the overall goal and objectives of the
team.

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