Team Skills Journal

ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN

Team Skills Journal

I have had great experience in the last few months, while I was working with team for Organizational Behavior and Design class. Some members are either, full time employees, or have had working experience. I have learned new team skills by working with those professional team members. New team skills in terms of collaboration, communication, decision making, and leadership.

Collaboration

Every week, we as a team, meet after class to discuss the next assignment, or case study due. At the meeting, each team member gets involved by share he/her ideas, and point of view. The first meeting of the group was to get to know each other and exchange contacts information. I was in charge of setting up an online group, where the team can collaborate and work on projects. Later on, we found it easier to just use Stevens’s forums since some of us have had problems accessing the online group. The meetings were usually brief and shorts as every team members shear his/her thoughts on the case study, or the assignment. The professional team members were such a big help for the rest of team. They share their point of view, and real life example’s to apply them to the case study. Finally, we end the meeting by dividing the work and set up a plan to finish the assignment due.

Communication

In terms of communication, every team member gets a chance to participate in the discussion. At the meeting a team member gets in charge of leading the discussion, and takes notes of what has been said, and who is doing what. There was not any conflict among the team members. If someone disagrees with the solution to the assignment due, he/she explain to the team the reasons why, he/she disagrees on the solution, and then the team members look at his/her point of view and agree if his/her reasons are reasonable. After the team leader set up a plan for the assignment, each team...