Strengths-Based Team Research Paper
Career Leadership Academy
September 18, 2013
Strengths Based Team Workshop Paper
On September 8, my Career Leadership Academy Class was asked to attend a team workshop where we would not only work on our own leadership skills, but we would put them to use in group work. This workshop focused on the understanding of group roles and behaviors needed for effective teamwork. The workshop involved a series of group activities where we learned to demonstrate all of our personal strengths as well as performing with along with others. As a group we were expected to use the relational leadership stages of group development given to us by our professionalism book in chapter 5. The text book suggest using the following techniques when working …show more content…
However, I did feel as though ability played a role in leadership. I felt as though depending on the activity we were doing others had more confidence in what we were to accomplish so they took a larger leadership role than others. For example, when we did the hula hoop activity a group member had already done the activity, so we took her advice in how we should accomplish the task. Her advice was that we go slowly and use two fingers which worked better than when we did it as a big group.
During the team building experiment with the tubeez, Hanna took charge and in a kind way declared herself leader and she tried to distribute roles and set a plan for this experiment. There were also some members who felt they had more experience or knowledge on how to accomplish the building task involving the tubeez so they established their role and they stepped up and took the first few building roles. As a team we tried to talk about how to go about building the structure but with limited time we were rushed and opinions kind of seemed to start …show more content…
When someone wanted something else we talked about it and gave sides and opinions and eventually agreed on one that best suited the group. I had lots of opinions but then I gave my opinion I made sure to provided examples on why we should go in a different direction.
When we had a group controversy we handled it by listening to others then using the process of elimination or by voting on it. Although, we had a few stubborn people that really wanted their idea rather than others. I think most of the team was more lenient in going along just to avoid controversy so others gave in order to accomplish the task.
I did not like how we really didn’t get a say in the group decision it was more compromise than actual decision mainly because we did not have enough time to really plan it out. But it was nice that we could all put or differences aside and come to a
September 18, 2013
Strengths Based Team Workshop Paper
On September 8, my Career Leadership Academy Class was asked to attend a team workshop where we would not only work on our own leadership skills, but we would put them to use in group work. This workshop focused on the understanding of group roles and behaviors needed for effective teamwork. The workshop involved a series of group activities where we learned to demonstrate all of our personal strengths as well as performing with along with others. As a group we were expected to use the relational leadership stages of group development given to us by our professionalism book in chapter 5. The text book suggest using the following techniques when working …show more content…
However, I did feel as though ability played a role in leadership. I felt as though depending on the activity we were doing others had more confidence in what we were to accomplish so they took a larger leadership role than others. For example, when we did the hula hoop activity a group member had already done the activity, so we took her advice in how we should accomplish the task. Her advice was that we go slowly and use two fingers which worked better than when we did it as a big group.
During the team building experiment with the tubeez, Hanna took charge and in a kind way declared herself leader and she tried to distribute roles and set a plan for this experiment. There were also some members who felt they had more experience or knowledge on how to accomplish the building task involving the tubeez so they established their role and they stepped up and took the first few building roles. As a team we tried to talk about how to go about building the structure but with limited time we were rushed and opinions kind of seemed to start …show more content…
When someone wanted something else we talked about it and gave sides and opinions and eventually agreed on one that best suited the group. I had lots of opinions but then I gave my opinion I made sure to provided examples on why we should go in a different direction.
When we had a group controversy we handled it by listening to others then using the process of elimination or by voting on it. Although, we had a few stubborn people that really wanted their idea rather than others. I think most of the team was more lenient in going along just to avoid controversy so others gave in order to accomplish the task.
I did not like how we really didn’t get a say in the group decision it was more compromise than actual decision mainly because we did not have enough time to really plan it out. But it was nice that we could all put or differences aside and come to a