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Learning and working in team...

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Learning and working in team 11/29/2019

Student ID: Name: Unit: Introduction to Management Assignment 1B Word count: 561(excluding headings and reference list)

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Team and Teaming............................................................................................................................................. 1

Leading from every Level................................................................................................................................... 1

Motivating and goal setting................................................................................................................................. 1

Summary............................................................................................................................................................ 2

Reference List.................................................................................................................................................... 3

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Team and Teaming Teamwork has been a crucial part of achieving goals in numerous organisations and goes beyond just a business environment (William & McWilliam 2014). In past decades, teams were seen to be made of individuals who were known to each other and have shared skills, attributes and working relationship. However, with the change in technologies, teams are seen to be put together across different organisations who are unknown to each other and are required to work in achieving a set goal (Beene 2014). This process of putting unknown individuals to work together is known as teaming and the benefits highlighted are that team members must familiarise themselves quickly and share their set of skills effectively. In this fast pace sequence of events social loafing decreases as every team member can learn from each other and share ideas (Steel 2007).

Leading from every Level In order to maximise performance and growth, it is imperative that there is effective leadership across all hierarchy in an organisation (Somech 2006).CEOs and managers are important leaders that influence the overall culture of the organisation however, with a distributed leadership trend nowadays, each member of a team has its role to accomplish the set objectives (Vardiman et al, 2006). This has been referred at the big and little L of leadership in the video. The benefit of having these two distinctive leadership types firstly, the main leader can set clear guidance for the overall team benefits and secondly, each member of a team can cease an opportunity to exercise leadership in their proficient skills.

Motivating and goal setting Managers or leaders must use the fundamentals of motivation which are efforts and accomplishment, the required satisfaction and desired rewards for all team members to be in the high-performance zone (William & McWilliams 2014). One of the theory that is used for motivating a team is goal setting which requires team members to be given precise and challenging goals, ensure that all team members have shared vision to achieve the set goals and provide regular task specific feedbacks (William & McWilliams 2014).Goals have to be set in a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely (Elias 2014).The benefit of using frequent feedbacks will ensure that there are communication both ways that is, managers are able to provide areas of improvements and team members can have a way of expressing their opinions, ask questions in a safe environment therefore eliminating the anxiety zone mentioned in the video. 2

Summary This video has highlighted that in teaming, one is always in the process to learn and therefore brainstorming for the group assignment will be more than which section each student will be doing. Using this strategy, the team will now be able to share their main attributes that will benefit the overall grade of the assignment as well as their least favourable skills. The team will also be implementing the big and little L leadership in the process. One team member will be the big L leader and will be responsible for the over sighting of the whole assignments as well as each member will be the little L, taking turn to lead in their area of expertise. In order to be in the high-performance zone, weekly team meetings will be conducted to assess the motivation level of team members and provide an open platform for feedback and motivation. This strategy will be beneficial as it will provide a platform to re-evaluate team goals and enable delivering the assignment in a timely manner.

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Reference List Beene, R. 2014, ‘The digital evolution of Team Detroit: Ad agency's strategy: Online is top priority’, Automotive News, vol. 88, no. 6607, pp. 21.

Elias, M 2014, 'SMART goal setting with your students', Edutopia, viewed 28 November 2019, . Hansen, R.S. & Hansen, K., 2007. The student experience in speed teaming: A new approach to team formation. Journal of College Teaching & Learning, vol.4, no.7, pp. 69-78 Locke, EA & Latham, GP 2002, 'Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey', American Psychologist, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 705-717. Somech, A 2006, 'The Effects of Leadership Style and Team Process on Performance and Innovation in Functionally Heterogeneous Teams', Journal of Management, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 132-157. Steel, P 2007, 'The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure', Psychological Bulletin 2007, vol. 133, no. 1, pp. 65-94, viewed 28 November 2019, . Vardiman, P.D., Houghton, J.D. and Jinkerson, D.L., 2006. Environmental leadership development: Toward a contextual model of leader selection and effectiveness. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol 27, no. 2, pp.93-105.

Williams, C. & McWilliams, A., 2014, MGMT, 2nd ed, Victoria, Cengage Learning.

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