Disadvantages Of Team Building

A REVIEW OF TEAM BUILDING

INTRODUCTION

In this time and age, team building has becoming a vital element in the metropolis. Government builds accountability official team to tackle the daily political issue, companies build project team to deal with commercial trade, and students build learning team to complete tasks. The aim of team building is making a more effective group by performing tasks and fulfilling the group member’s needs (Huse,1990). Huse’s definition of team building is well -supported by Cleland (1996), who further analysis the process of team building, including the forming, growing and enhancing skills process, in order to achieve a high-performing team. Their investigating on team building can be proved when it comes to

In the Tomorrow’s Leaders course, we are assigned into different groups to conduct a group presentation of the attribute of team building. A team of five is formed by a lecturer which is the forming stage of team building that team members come together initially meet each other (Johnson et al., 2002). Being the coordinator of the team, I set the ground rules and actively monitored the process of our team. Noticing the team process is on schedule, each members sharing their thought and the team was highly focused that describe in the norming stage(Gersick & Hackman, 1990), I felt satisfied with the coordination of the team. I realised that I am capable of managing the team by setting ground rules, in which I can learn from this experience that setting up ground rules is a crucial element in leading a team. As times went on, I discovered that the progress of the team slow down and the teammate are numbed with the heavy workload. It was fortunate that I realised the risk of the team before they moving back to the storming stage when teammates are resistance to the team control (Dyer, 2013). However, I felt sorrowful to them due to my unawareness of team members’ feeling and their situation and realised that I am weak in sensitive to their feeling. Finally, after the adjusting of coordinating the team and showing care to my teammates, we overcome this challenges and team performed in high-level team participation and team spirit in the final presentation. This team building presentation experience is important for me to learn to aware of others emotions by showing care and concern to them as a leader. As a classmate, team building reminds me to respect others working nature that I should not harshly push others to meet my ultimate expectation. As an