Hi and welcome back to my blog journey,
As you may have seen I have missed a week, I had an assignment due therefore all my time and efforts were directed at this. But, we are now back on the blog and this week I will be writing briefly about the remote team that I currently work with.
The remote group I work with has 5 members from the wider Manawatu area, we all have very busy lives outside of study which includes, work, family as well as our many hobbies. Due to this, we are not able to meet face-to-face instead we have utilized technology to combat this issue. We regularly talk via our private Facebook page and messenger and we have set up Google Docs as to be able to all work simultaneously on our project. However, I do feel that making time as a group to meet face-to-face is important, as it will improve the relationship the group has and the trust in each other (Watkins, 2013).
Our group was formed very earlier in our study semester, therefore, we have been able to get to know each other and our strengths and weaknesses very well. This has allowed us to decide as a group on different roles we will take on and what tasks each person will have. Also, we have been able to recognize what all our individual goals were and ensure we were wanting the same outcome, we do not want to simply pass this group assignment but get the best possible mark being an A. Our communication has been very good and each member of the group has been contributing to the decisions.
One of the things our group will need to work further on is setting our individual tasks and tracking our progress as a group, this will allow us to see how each member is going and will allow us to help each other further. More importantly, keeping track of this progress will ensure we are working productively as a team. Google Docs is a good way of tracking this progress, possibly making a weekly agenda or list of tasks for everyone that we can all see will help us. We all understand that life gets busy and having a group decided list of tasks for each week will keep us moving forward efficiently.
I have held a part time job as a coach of my local college football team, I had to work within a small team consisting of an assistant coach, manager, parent representative and the college sports coordinator. One thing I found to be the biggest challenge was getting everyone to communicate effectively, there were individuals who had different objectives and they didn’t voice these. In the end, this broke down the entire system, the lack of communication was the killer blow in what could have been a good environment and eventually our goals were not obtained. So, to see our small remote group begin the way we have is very encouraging. We have been very effective and I believe we will be very successful if we continue to communicate, help each other and remain focused on our end goals.
Watkins, D. M. (2013) Making virtual teams work: Ten basic principles. Retrieved from
https://hbr.org/2013/06/making-virtual-teams-work-ten
1 comment:
Kia ora Ryan,
I like how you have put a real time situation in your post about your communication within a sporting team.
Our group had an informal leadership structure identified from day one and this has further helped us in the delegation of work load to pairings or individuals in our next assignment. I believe our leaders will keep us on track by giving deadlines/ objectives to strive towards. These deadlines could be communicated to all by the use of the 'events' function in our group Facebook page. I also believe that this will need to be communicated to us effectively so we can produce effective results.
Keep the good mahi going,
N.
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