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Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolutions

Beth Lipp

Abstract

The following paper will follow the steps to create a successful team. It is based on several key factors: the development cycle of a team, the structure of a team, team dynamics and conflict resolution strategies.

Team Dynamics

Team dynamics has been a key role to many successful companies. Depending on what the final product is planned to be or the final goal is how each team will be derived or established.

What is a Team?

Teams are made up of two or more people who interact and collaborate with each other. The team is equally responsible and accountable for achieving the common objectives and actually find themselves as a separate entity within an organization or company. Teams only exist to fulfill some purpose and are held together by interdependence and the need for association to achieve common goals. One of the biggest keys to success is communication to coordinate activities with in the team.

Functionality of a Team

All team members gather their thoughts to come together with a combined desire to produce the most reliable and productive result. To meet this goal all team members have to participate equally in group activities such as brain storming, researching, compiling and presentation of the final product.

Team members must have an equal share of the groups' success. To achieve this goal each person must trust one another to know that the others will participate actively with equal time and energy. Everyone must understand that