Team to Team, Which Is Essay

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The single greatest detriment and liability to communication in the company I work for right now is trust. No one trusts members of cross-functional teams because they take ideas and often present them as their own in larger staff meetings or cross-functional discussions with other departments. This has happened regularly in engineering and in marketing. As a result, communication is starting to come to a standstill in terms of brainstorming. The exception is the business development team, which everyone wants to work with, as they regularly win awards for performance, are positive, look out for each other, and are very inclusive in terms of working with virtual teams. In effect, the business development team needs to be a model for the rest of the company.

To alleviate the lack of trust in the company outside of business development, I would also concentrate on creating more effective task interdependence to force greater transparency and trust into other cross-functional teams.
I would also hold team members accountable for their actions relative to others and when conflicts arise, have arbitration and face-to-face meetings to work it out. Too often in our organization, conflicts fester and they are ignored, which by default condones this activity. I would strive to have a more open, honest and at times brutally honest dialogue to make sure there was less confusion over the direction of teams and the contributions of team members to it. I would also concentrate more on constructive dialogue on how to make the team process better and ask for recommendations on how to create a better series of processes for getting projects done on….....

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