511 Team Paper For this assignment, we are writing a paper about the 511 team .. I need 2 pages talks about their overall performance as a team ( their strength and weakness ) Please write this paper besad on my classmates 3 written parts + the audio for

Team Communication and Decision Making

After reviewing the team as a whole, it’s fairly evident that they are a team with a high emotional intelligence and cohesion amongst one another. Having to all share one big room and work in such close proximity to each other has created a very relaxed, comfortable, friendly and trusting atmosphere between the team. They’re in an environment with a lot of face to face communication, from yelling across the room at one another to ask questions, to peeking over their cubicles to have a conversation. This creates an adverse positive effect, since everyone can hear what’s being said across the room, they’re able to add input that normally would have been left unheard. This effect promotes a lot of collaboration among the team, and allows each member to use their specific strengths and resources to help one another.

This casual, comfortable, and open atmosphere that has become the culture and norm of the team, also translates into their meetings and the company as a whole. Meetings are only called when there’s a specific issue at hand, like implementing a new computer system, and the issues are more grey than they are black and white. The team or those involved are notified beforehand to allow time to prepare to discuss the proposed issue. The meetings themselves are very much an open forum, if someone has something to say they can say it. This holds true even when higher ups are in attendance, like the president or CEO. Being that the company isn’t necessarily run as a hierarchy adds to the collaborative atmosphere among the team. To avoid groupthink while discussing the issues at hand, they often play devil’s advocate with one another to foster new and creative ideas.

The ability to come up with new and creative solutions is imperative to the team, and the company as a whole. The decisions that the team makes affects entire timeline of the product, including the development and distribution of the garment. Depending on their decisions, time can either be added or taken away from the timeline. One of their goals as a team is to get their product commercialized and on the market as quickly and efficiently as possible as to meet customer demands. If the designs aren’t approved on time, deliveries to the customers are late, which inevitably lowers customers expectation of the company. It’s crucial for the team to make timely decisions and keep the ball rolling. As a team, they depend on each other to give feedback and be a pair of fresh eyes on a product to help ensure that deadlines are met.

If deadlines aren’t met, or a product is believed to be less than satisfactory, then the team doesn’t feel as if it has succeeded. Their goal and idea of success is to create a great technical package that they can send off to their factories and communicate clearly to them what it’s supposed to be. If they don’t accomplish this, they evaluate where they went wrong through problem solving and figuring out how to better communicate with the various factories.

With that being said, they do have performance appraisals as a team. They begin by doing their own personal self evaluations, to which they turn into their manager. Their manager proceeds to do their own appraisals of the team, which they then pass off to their manager. From there they are all evaluated and the feedback trickles back down to the team. Although their performance is appraised amongst themselves and the managers, the team does not currently provide performance appraisal feedback on one another. The team is lucky to receive as much feedback as they do on their performance, as many departments and teams in the company still don’t have any performance appraisals at all.

Overall, this particular team within 5.11 has a great sense of team cohesion and emotional intelligence. Their close proximity and culture brings about an atmosphere of trust, comfort, openness, and collaboration among one another that allows them to be enthusiastic and excited about their work.