Personal Development Report: Enhancing Teamwork and Effectiveness

This report evaluates the effectiveness of personal contributions within an organization's teamwork setting, addressing barriers to effective team performance and proposing resolutions. It analyzes factors contributing to both effective and ineffective team dynamics, emphasizing the importance of cohesiveness and communication. The report identifies barriers such as a lack of clear objectives and poor communication, suggesting improvements through better expression of comments and problem-solving approaches. It highlights the significance of adhering to organizational rules and strategies, prioritizing tasks, and cultivating a positive attitude among team members. Furthermore, it discusses how to enhance individual contributions by being an effective leader, suggesting innovative ideas, maintaining honesty and punctuality, applying experience, and managing time effectively to improve overall team performance. The report concludes by referencing academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

Personal and professional
development

Contents…
• Evaluate the effectiveness of your own contributions
when working with others within the organization (4.1.)
• Chose two (2) barriers and explain how you would
resolve these issues. (4.2.)
• Analyze factors that contribute to effective team
performance; and the barriers to effective team
performance
• Discuss how you can improve your own contributions to
the collective effectiveness of team (4.4.)

Analyze factors that contribute to effective team performance;
and the barriers to effective team performance
• Cohesiveness in one of the
most important factors, which
is directly involved in order to
have judge the bonding in
between the team members.
• Team cohesion effects in
building up a proper working
condition in the team.
However, in real life scenario

Contd..
• the communication among
the team members is
proper, work related
challenges become easy to
overcome
• there are several
controversies regarding
building up the effective
communication among the
team members

two (2) barriers and explain how you
would resolve these issues
• Teamwork is generally
performed in order to improve
the quality of work at the same
time to complete the given task
within the specified time interval
• when the team members are
unaware about the specific
objectives and the outcome of
the entire task, it becomes an
issue to complete the task

Contd…
• Lack of or poor
communications hinders the
entire team performance.
• I think, while there is enough
scope to express their
comments and to get the
proper solutions of the
problems faced by them, the
entire team gets motivated to
complete the tasks

evaluate the effectiveness of your own contributions
when working with others within the organization
(4.1.)
• Every organization follows
specific set of rules and
strategies based on which,
the entire team can work
effectively (Rahim, 2017)
• I need to identify the
priorities of the task and
to organize those tasks
chronologically

Contd..
• People with good attitude
are the key person to take
initiatives of any job and
segregate those tasks in
between everyone
• I need to try to posses all the
essential skills required by
an effective team member

Discuss how you can improve your own contributions to
the collective effectiveness of team (4.4.)
• I have to be an effective
team leader and to
suggest innovative
ideas for improving wok
efficiency in the team
• I need to be honest to
my job and should be
punctual to my working
hours.

Contd…
• I should also apply my experience
in the job and to have the proper
understanding on the issues
faced in the job
• Time management is one of the
key factors that can improve the
team performance.
• Hence, I need to build up a
proper time schedule for me and
to follow the entire time schedule
for the team.

Reference List:
• Chuang, C.H., Jackson, S.E. and Jiang, Y., 2016. Can knowledge-
intensive teamwork be managed? Examining the roles of HRM
systems, leadership, and tacit knowledge. Journal of
management, 42(2), pp.524-554.
• Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a
systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John
Wiley & Sons.
• Levi, D., 2015. Group dynamics for teams. Sage Publications.
• Mone, E.M. and London, M., 2018. Employee engagement through
effective performance management: A practical guide for
managers. Routledge.
• Rahim, M.A., 2017. Managing conflict in organizations. Routledge.