work as a team
Definition:
Ability to work with other people knowing the role of each one, the management of work and the communication, partnership and trust with the rest of the team.
REFLECT
Evaluation.
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Do you find out what is the goal of work and everyone's role in it?
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Do you get involved with the team's objectives and make them your own?
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Are you committed and manager to the common goal ?
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Do you assume your (previously defined) role within the team?
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Do you perform the tasks according to the assignment made and do you communicate to the rest of the team status?
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Do you prepare meetings in advance?
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Do you define the topics to be discussed in meetings to achieve greater efficiency and productivity? Do you do conference proceedings?
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Do you instill morale and encouragement in your team members? Do you promote constructive dialogue among team members?
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Do you promote and generate trust with your actions and decisions?
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Do you keep the communication flowing and the atmosphere good?
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Do you manage negative attitudes on the part of any of the components?
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Do you know how to keep calm in times of controversy?
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When you find aspects that influence the tasks of others, do you communicate this as soon as possible?
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Do you care about work of the rest of the team and support members who are having difficulties?
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Do you avoid personal allusions in moments of disagreement?
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Do you give in when you are not in the right and collaborate with others when it is positive for the result of work?
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Before the meeting, do you transmit your results or comments to the other members and analyze those of others?
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You do not know what is the goal of work or the reasons for doing it.
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The end of work does not cause you commitment
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You work individually, without thinking about the overall result .
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You look for excuses to justify your lack of involvement and behavior.
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You don't strive for a good work.
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You do not respect the agreed deadlines for the realization of a common work .
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Meetings are unprepared, start late and are not productive.
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You do not attend or are late for meetings, and you fail to submit the work under your responsibility.
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You neither care about nor trust what other people do.
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You generate lack of confidence in the rest of the members with your actions, attitude and behaviors.
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You don't take into account the skills of the rest of the team members and what each of them can bring to the table.
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You do not clearly state your ideas or suggestions.
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You believe you are capable of doing things better than others.
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You don't detect the needs that other people on the team may have.
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You talk about a member of group with others behind their backs in a negative way about their performance.
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You prioritize the completion of the tasks assigned to you over the partnership with other team members in the execution of other tasks under the pretext that "it is not your work".
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You do jobs that belong to others because you don't think they will be able to perform their tasks.
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Do you and your colleagues form a real team or do you go your own way?
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Do you know and share the objectives and methodology of the team's work ?
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Do you know exactly what work you are going to have to do? What are the deliverables and deadlines to be met? Have you made it clear with your team?
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Do you know and value the skills and knowledge of your team members?
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Do you encourage participation and motivate the other members of group?
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Do you interact with other members between meetings to get to know them better?
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Are you able to trust the work of your colleagues?
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Do you know how to assume your own mistakes, do you ask financial aid to your team to correct them?
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Do you share your partial results with other team members? Are you interested in the results of others?
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Do you take advantage of the skills and knowledge of other members to solve more effectively specific problems of your own work?
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Do you think you are capable of correcting and advising others without hurting them?
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Do you give suggestions to your colleagues so that they can perform better work? Do you encourage them to make more effort in their responsibilities?
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Do you think work meetings are efficient or a waste of time?
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Do you respect meeting schedules, make excuses when you are late or fail to excuse yourself?
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Do you bring your prepared homework to meetings?
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Do you try to expose the failures of others? Do you talk behind one's back about the mistakes or lack of skill of others?
CHANGE
Action plan
Teamwork is not the sum of small independent jobs, but rather taking advantage of the strengths of each member to reach goals that would be impossible individually. That is why it is important to get to know the team.
Organize a previous meeting before working where you can get to know the members and their skills, in which you do not talk about work just to make clear the objectives and the frequency of meetings. In the second meeting, the tasks are distributed.
Get to know those qualities of other members that you do not have that can be complemented with your own so that the team has more cohesion and obtains better results. Also think about where you can contribute yours.
Create an atmosphere of trust based on first impressions, sincere interest in the circumstances of the other members of group and a professional attitude. Think about what acts contribute to building trust and enhance them, as well as avoid acts that detract from the energy of the other participants. It's not about good or bad, it's about team cohesion.
Accept the comments and suggestions that the rest of the teams make about your work and the way you work. What's more, ask them about what you can improve. At the same time, give your opinion in a constructive way, without questioning the lack of skill of others in things that you already have experience in, but contributing that experience to grow.
Publicly recognize the positive aspects of others. Try to discover the strengths of each team member and how they contribute positively to the rest of the team.
When your teammates have problems performing tasks, give them advice that will help them perform better and not feel demotivated, but without putting yourself above them.
Learn from your colleagues and their skills: essay reporting, use of presentation tools, planning work, communication. When you see something you would like to do as they do, ask them to show you how they learned.
To work in a team it is essential to know how to put oneself in the other's shoes, since not all of us approach problems with the same vision. A creative person with little taste for practicality is not the same as a manager who may seem authoritarian... And many other roles are explained in the document work in teamwork by Cardona and Willinson.
Once you have read it, share that information with the rest of the members of group, so you can all put on each other's hats and think more as a team.
Like committee, don't pigeonhole roles, as everyone is several at once.
Listen actively: facilitate communication and participation among team members by taking turns to speak. Do not interrupt interventions and pay attention.
Involve everyone in the conversation, giving your ideas without fear and considering without prejudice those of others - especially if it is a brainstorming session. If someone is not participating, encourage him/her to give his/her opinion by asking him/her about the topic that is circulating at that moment.
When giving your ideas, be open to the improvements and corrections that others can give you, and don't take it as something staff but as what will make the work go forward.
Make a certificate of the meeting in which it is clear the decisions that have been made, the issues that need to be addressed and the issues that could not be resolved. Write down any ideas that have been left unresolved.
For the group to work as such, there must be certain predispositions among its members and the "atmosphere" must be perfect for working.
The first is to give and receive feedback, that is, to comment to others as objectively as possible, with delicacy and sincerity about how their work is doing and at the same time ask them to tell us their opinion about ours in order to accept it and thus improve it.
The second is the attitude of listening. Only if the members of group have the ability to truly listen to the ideas, improvements, proposals and conclusions of others will it be possible to reach a common cause. Otherwise, it is encouraged to do as many little jobs as there are people.
The third is optimism. Nothing is gained by destroying with comments, nor by being irresponsible in the work because in the end everything comes out. It will cost, but it will turn out well
Looking at everyone's schedules for good coordination, set a date and time for meetings, and determine the periodicity if a good time and date has been found for everyone.
Choose a place from work where there are no interruptions or distractions, such as the classrooms of work at group, and make sure you have the necessary material (whiteboard, computers, etc.).
Send the topics to be covered and the tasks to be performed to meeting via certificate above.
Have prepared the deliverables that you need to submit or the information that needs to be presented.
Encourage your teammates when they lose heart to do the work, do not make contributions or do not trust their work.
You should be available to resolve any doubts that team members may have regarding the completion of the work and, if necessary, serve as a representative when discussing it with the teacher.
Being a leader means working harder. You have to check that the tasks are correct, share them and check that the final work is of the quality you had stipulated.
Know the tasks that have been assigned to you with the details that have been specified, analyze the members to see where to support you and be very clear about the date when it is due.
Use tools that allow you to communicate and show the progress of your work to colleagues, such as Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox, WhatsApp.
Lean on your colleagues when difficulties arise in the realization and be reciprocal with them, looking for areas where another can be an expert and helping where you can be.
Seek acceptance from all members of group with the work you have made. If everyone has participated to a greater or lesser extent, the more general acceptance you will have.
The meeting should be a good one, but in order not to make it last too long, it is advisable to take certain "safety measures". Among them is to fix in advance the time that the meeting is to last, with some slack in case you are dealing with something important. You can always continue the informal chat after that time has elapsed.
In the meeting, move away and propose to move away everything that distracts (cell phones, computers if they are not going to be used, etc.). It is better to take notes on paper and then transfer them to certificate digitally.
DEEPEN
Resources
work in team, P. Cardona and H. Wilkinson
It is an analysis about what a team is and is not, about the different roles when working in a team, about the importance of attitude and skills... In summary, an extensive analysis of work in a team.
What everyone should know about team, Luis Romero
Based on Katzenbach and Smith's programs of study , explains the 5 possible ways to work in a team.
10 teamwork killers and how to avoid them, IESE
What causes a team not to function well? Why can the atmosphere become strained?
work teamwork: these are the keys, Elena Herrero
Oriented more to the world of business, but also valid for university students, this article indicates a series of guidelines to follow to improve in this area. skill
Building a psychologically safe workplace, Amy Edmondson
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, discusses the finding of psychological safety as core topic for a well-functioning work team.
Build a tower, build a team; Tom Wujec
Through a small experiment, discusses how the most successful teams are built and the characteristics they have.
Steve Jobs talks about work teamwork at Apple and why trust is necessary for success
From an excerpt of an interview, the Apple founder talks about the trust that exists in the top management of the company. business
Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work, Margaret Heffernan
Based on a study of hen productivity, explains the characteristics of truly good groups of work and how they behave to go far.
What makes us feel good about our work?, Dan Ariely
Sustained through the multiple experiments he has undertaken in his professional degree program , Dan Ariely sample in the video why it is important that in what we do we feel that we are going to be a financial aid
Remember the Titans, Boaz Yakin
The two films presented above encompass moments of great tension where the search for alternatives and making the best decision is vital. The decision making takes place in two perspectives: on the one hand, the NASA control center and on the other hand the astronauts, in case of Apollo 13, and the protagonist of The Martian in the other film. IMDB file
The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum
Mathematician Alan Turning (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his team have as mission statement of the secret service to decipher the Nazi's encryption machine, the Enigma. This will only be possible with the hard work and knowing very well where each one can contribute. IMDB file
The Incredibles, Brad Bird
Superheroes have been driven to anonymity, to a "normal" life, and in these circumstances a family with superpowers tries to live as if they didn't have them. But everything changes when the father is asked to return sporadically to his life as a vigilante, taking the whole family with him. IMDB profile
Google Calendar
Create events and add other team members to them
Google Drive and DropBox
Allows you to share files and work online. You can access it through your university email.
Pegby
Task scheduler. Gives the possibility to create group tasks