Team Dynamics

I am a member of a group that fosters wellness and physical fitness in my community. I joined this group when I discovered that I was gaining weight and needed to work on it. When I joined the group, I thought it would be difficult to achieve my goals. However, as I became a part of the team, I learned that all group members were devoted to the group and were all working towards my comfort in the group. Overall, the group can be classified as a functional one based on its focus to goals, commitment to the group and orderliness.

Every member who joins the group is immediately assisted to create a set of goals which assist in creating focus. With these goals, each member of the group can measure their progress towards their goal as well as determine where they are going to put a majority of their efforts. Through these goals, the group gets oneness of purpose ensures that all individuals put all their efforts to the goals of the team.

The group also has a motivation of ensuring that each individual is committed to the team. The team ensures that members are both committed to each other’s wellness and to their goals. According to Brigham Young University (3), it is important to put emphasis on both the wellness of the team and the process of the team’s task. Lack of emphasis on either of these will lead to a decreased productivity.

Finally, orderliness is at the center of the group’s performance. With time, the group has been able to develop a variety of ways through which it can increase its orderliness. Two of them that are very important time keeping and allocation of roles in the team. Every group member is supposed to be at the venue of meeting in a timely manner as scheduled. Lack of punctuality is punished. Every group member has a role they are expected to play in the team. This ensures that no aspect of the team lags behind.

Works Cited

Brigham Young University,. ‘Group Dynamics’. BYU Manager’s Toolbox 1-4. Print.