A Teams Success
In the article by Bolman and Deal it talked greatly about the important aspects that make teams succeed and work well together. My personal experience with a semi-successful team has to do with my synchronized skating team. I will go through the what works well in our teams’ structure and what doesn’t work as well. One quote that really spoke to me was that in the seal teams if one individual makes any infractions the whole team gets punished. In a sense my synchro team has this sort of mindset since if one person isn’t synchronized with everyone else, we will lose points during competitions which would punish everyone since we all get the same score and we either win together or lose together. This incentivizes everyone to work hard to get better at staying in sync and to skate more gracefully so that we don’t let each other down. In the reading it talked about how well organized small groups have the ability to produce results that often elude the grasp of lar...
