A New Team

WHAT: Assuming I was assigned to a new team at my future work company, there would be three essential steps I would take to ensure success. The first step I would take would be to set team roles specifically for each member of the group. As Levi states “roles are one of the basic building blocks of successful team performance” (Levi, 2017). Going off of Levi, I truly believe assigning team roles to make the tasks clear for everyone is essential to success. The second step I would take for my team would be to set team goals. I chose this second step because goals are mandatory to see success in the future. A team will not perform to its greatest if there is no end goal or main objective to be hit or achieved. The last step I would implement would be a reward system. I chose this last step as a reward system because I truly believe rewards motivate people to do better and work harder. The steps I chose all promote collaboration, while also projecting an imagine to the workers of an end goal and reward for achieving that end goal. Therefore, I am confident if I quickly enact these three steps to my newly assigned team at work I would ensure success.

SO WHAT: If I were to follow through with setting in place step one of creating team roles, I am sure I would see a huge improvement in efficiency. Levi supports this statement when he says “When roles are created and chosen upon individuals within a group, operations and cohesion among the whole team are vastly more efficient” (Levi, 2017). This statement is also complimented with research by outside parties, it is proven that efficiency has a core dependent on team roles being created and allocated correctly. I truly believe if I also followed through with step two of setting team goals, I would experience my team members having an improved high motivation to work hard and work in sync with one another. This is because members will better understand the task at hand, and will also better understand what each member needs to do specifically in order to be ultimately successful in the future. With implementing my third step into my new work group, I could expect to see less problems and conflicts arising from the members themselves. Other companies and organizations have used reward systems as a problem solver for typical issues that take place within teams and groups. There are a vast amount of reward systems and numerous ways to implement these reward systems, however if I allocate enough time and consideration into each member of my team I am sure I can come up with the correct one for all.

NOW WHAT: So theoretically if I were to have to implement three quick steps into a new team at work, I would do so with team roles, goals, and a reward system to ensure success. I personally really like team roles because of all the benefits it has to making the task super clear that has to be achieved. I have always believed in goals and have always had goals set for myself personally. Hence I believe team goals are essential to setting clear objectives which ultimately results in success if this is implemented done right. Lastly, everyone loves rewards and personally I always loved being rewarded for working hard. So implementing step three of a reward system seems just morally right to me. Rewards always made me work harder so I’m confident the members of my new team would work harder as well with this in place.

WORKS CITED

Levi, D. (2017). Group dynamics for teams. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Johnston, K. (2016, October 26). Ways to Implement a Team Dynamics Reward System. Retrieved from https://smallbusiness.chron.com/ways-implement-team-dynamics-reward-system-15473.html

MacKay, J. (2017, December 22). Research Says These Are the 5 Essential Elements of a Successful Team. Retrieved from https://www.inc.com/jory-mackay/a-study-of-55-of-worlds-biggest-companies-found-most-collaborative-teams-do-these-5-things.html

Woodruff, J. (2019, January 31). The Importance of Clear Objectives, Directions & Project Plans. Retrieved from https://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-clear-objectives-directions-project-plans-32965.html