High Team Performance

High team performance had taught us the many elements in forming and maintaining a team. This play involves team interaction in order for our “Five Kinds of Silence” project to be completed. There are good and challenging times in the team. Through these experiences it allows us to be more aware of the negative as well as the positive aspect of teamwork.

Our team went well in the beginning but met with some problems in between. In the end me and my class was what went well. Our main mode of communication was through lessons and extra days in college. We began meeting to discuss how we will play the role and help each other with scripts, monologues and body movements. Billy was the main character all the male models had to play including me, which was murder by his own family at the beginning of the play. After much discussion we also decided to be a self-directing team. Everything went smoothly; we were at the forming stage with disagreements occurred. In respectful team, we bonded and trusted each other very quickly. Being a team with a really good teacher/leader, the team serves as an effective tool to maintain consistency in the team.

The only situation in the beginning stages I felt that I made minimal contribution during the first few discussions due to fear of being judged. We succeed by having rotating role of agenda setter who is to set and take minutes of agenda each lesson

Our class did not go through the storming stage, there were few disagreements and they were all resolved quickly. This sped up the progress of our project. We successfully manage to add extra hours to come in to college. Some of us did our research on the play “Five Kinds of Silence” which helped us understand the play and characters a bit more. Our team came up with different ideas where each of us made separate and independent contributions to the team performance.

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