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Effective Team Insights from Google
In your second week in the course, you will join your Business 711 Mikes Bikes team and learn who your team members are. All students will meet virtually with your team in the second week.
Teamwork is an important skill that employers view as essential to our Graduate capabilities. No one wishes to employ someone that can't get along with others or who hasn't learnt to positively contribute to overarching strategic goals. We are all important to getting things done with others in organisations and each of us have a responsibility to ourselves and others to contribute to these larger goals. Therefore, learning to work in teams is essential since almost all business careers involve teamwork.
This is why so much of university work asks you to work and perform in teams as it gives you real life experience of how to be part of a team, how to energise and motivate both yourself and others to perform , and sometimes, even how to navigate and resolve conflict that can arise by working with others. While working on team assessments you are also gaining the essential skills which will stand you in excellent stead in your workplace. The more practical real-life experience you get in your degree, the more valuable you are to your future employees when you graduate.
Therefore, we think it is important that you undertake a quick knowledge search on what can make teams work and how you might be able to play a part in ensuring that your Business 711 team gets off to a good start and builds your performance throughout the time you work together.
Therefore, please take a quick look at the reading under the Canvas Module Two. This is a short article that outlines a study undertaken by Google on what comprises a successful team. The key take-away from this brief article is that successful teams focused on providing their members with:
1) Psychological safety
2) Dependability
3) Structure and clarity
4) Meaning
5) Impact
Take a look at the article to see what is involved with each of these factors. Consider, how you can help engender this within your own team, and what your own responsibilities and actions will be.
Below is the link to this article: