Communication: A team effort or not?
Abstract
This paper demonstrates the positive and negative aspects in team communication.
The paper highlights the importance of developing an understanding the impact of size gender make up, personality types, cliques, and cultural diversity of and within teams, nurturing a clear view of the impact of working as a online learning team member and recognizing approaches that can improve the working environment, sharing experiences and recognizing the best performances while resisting the temptation to ?reinvent the wheel', exploring various communication challenges connected with leading remote teams and recognizing appropriate methods that will guarantee effective team communication. (Pollitt, 2006)
Communication: A team effort or not?
Communication is difficult between just two people, how do you think it would fair between teams of people? There are several factors to take into consideration when dealing with communication in a team setting. The factors include but are not limited to the size of the team, the gender make up of the team, the personality types within the team, cliques within the team, and the cultural diversity of the team members. Wordnet.princeton.edu (2007) defines communication as the activity of conveying information by or to or between people or teams (para.1). The essence of good communication skills can make an online learning team successful or can break the team into non-cooperative segments and cause failure.
Communication Challenges
One communication challenge encountered by teams is online learning. There are benefits to online learning. For example, when in an online environment team members may be dispersed geographically and in this particular e ...