Week Three Blog

Ranya Aribi

For a team to be successful, everyone needs to be part of it. I believe the only way to effectively be successful is if everyone puts in equal amount of effort and works really hard to ensure they bring to the team what it needs. I also think communication is one of the most important factors of a successful team as well.

Some characteristics of a good team can come down to the way they act. Kindness and understanding are so important, and are needed, but so is the ability to help someone out, and let them know when they’re falling off track. A lot of people take criticism as a negative thing, when it is just for the good of the team.

A team not working together successful can have a lot of reasons. It is very important to get along with the people you work with, and when emotions and negative feels get involved, it is easy to not be successful in a team. Also, when a team member does not carry their weight, it puts everyone else in the team in a bad situation, holding them back.

For this week, my team got more familiar with each other and the ideas that we wanted to think of. We also decided on our team contract, and that was finalized and turned in by me. There was not many challenges to this week, we all effectively communicated, and listened and had really good ideas to share.