Team Evaluation Essay

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Fundamentally, my team worked so effectively because of our common goals and determination to succeed. A critical component of creating our effective team was the drawing-up of a team charter. The charter listed team member strengths, duties, processes, ground rules, and above all a timetable of deliverables. Having a series of deadlines for small projects, rather than focusing on the single, final deadlines of the project forced us to keep in constant contact over email and have a consistent and ongoing dialogue about the preoccupations of the case study.

One of the challenges of being a member of a virtual team is that the distanced format can lack accountability, and people do not get a clear sense of the personalities of other team members. However, in the case of our team, we clearly bonded as a unit. The fact that Nicholas Payne was so prompt in getting his information to the team at the beginning of the week set a high performance bar for the rest of us in terms of timeliness.
'No procrastination' was one of our ground rules. I have found while working on previous projects that adhering to a set schedule is often one of the greatest challenges of any team, given that if one deadline is missed, then it becomes 'easier' to ignore others until the project gets hopelessly behind schedule. Everyone on the team was methodical in getting their work in, so the designated member could take their contributions and edit it into a seamless whole.

Reaching out to team members early on was critical in creating a common sense of mission….....

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