Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Teams

            In my experiences with working within a team that is effective, is if someone steps up and leads. The leading might be subtle but one is always need to keep people focused and moving forward. In a job scenario and one is getting paid to be there I believe it is more dependent on self-leadership. The person has to be able to step and want to succeed, like a effective team member should. It is about sacrifice of the individual to make a better collective outcome for everyone but I think it has to start within the person themselves otherwise the leader is helping a brick wall. With the five dysfunctions, to me, it appears to be a domino effect which in some cases is true but in others a team can progress but no trust because individuals are doing their own jobs effectively. Most of the time being effective is trust that others get the job done but other situations can occur from motivation of self-promotion. Opening up to have a more functional team reminds me similar to Johari window. I personally don't agree with what defines a team whether that's because of my experience or lack their of I don't know, but want I do know they only way to keep a effective team is suck up problems people bring to you it's not always about opening up to share or calling out a member's pass aggressiveness. It's about stepping out with self-leadership and internalizing a certain amount of conflicts that don't actually hinder the group severely as a whole. The five dysfunctions order; trust. conflict, commitment, accountability, then results to me are just observations something that one person has a view on, it's his opinion of what is working. Meaning if I observed the same trends I might come up with the same traits or something different. As stated early with my degree of experience I just can't be sure and "totally approve" of them, but at the same time I don't completely disregard them because now that they are brought to attention I might have the chance in the future to look and see for myself.   

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