Meaning of Team

A team comprises a group of people linked in a common purpose; teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are in high complexity and have many interdependent subtasks. Teams can be constructed many different ways depending on the situation at hand and consist of all types of individuals or players to make up that team. Any time individuals come together to form a team there is a common goal that every member of the team is aware of. In order to reach this common goal, every member of the team must follow his role, and make his or her adequate contribution to the team effort. More often than not when individuals with different views and personalities have to work together and coincide there is some form of conflict or disagreement that presents itself. These disagreements don't have to be out of pure malice, but could be due to individuals just not seeing eye to eye when it comes to certain issues.

As seen in many other places there is a definitely a team atmosphere and co-habitation within organizations. Individuals are assorted in offices and cubicles with certain goals and quotas they must work together in some way to reach. So since there is a team atmosphere conflict is also evident. In this case I would like to reference to a specific conflict situation regarding comradery. Since I work in retail at the moment the sales aspect of the job is key, anytime you have several salespeople working in close proximity and they all have quotas to meet, there is unavoidable conflict. In this case conflict stems anywhere from stealing sales, merging on sales, entertaining someone else's customers and many other things. With the proper communication and comradery amongst these employees I believe most of these struggles can be avoided.

When choosing an exercise or activity for Team-Building one must choose wisely. The activity needs to be enticing enough for everyone to buy into and cooperate with using all their efforts. At the same time the exercise must have depth and meaning providing you results and added feedback in the end. With the main conflict problem being the comradery amongst the team I chose a team activity that everyone must work with each other to accomplish. Being the sports fanatic that I am I thought some form of sport would be a great activity and speak volumes to the team atmosphere and overall comradery amongst employees. I personally was introduced to sports at a young age. This taught me discipline, patience, social skills, sharing, humbleness and many other things. So the sport I chose was slow pitch softball. I've always been a basketball fan myself and not much of a baseball fan, but I still enjoy the game of baseball. I chose baseball as opposed to Basketball or Flag Football because baseball is America's favorite pastime. Most everyone has played baseball at or one point or time in their lives, if not they understand the concept of the game, baseball is also less likely to be dominated by size or athleticism such as a sport like basketball.

When introducing the contest to the employees I would split the employees up into two teams balancing levels of intelligence and athleticism making the contest as fair as possible. It is important to explain to the employees that we are here to enjoy ourselves, but just like at work when we have a goal to reach we want give our best for our teams to reach the ultimate goal, a win. I would then encourage my employees to really use each other and team work to will themselves to a win. Whatever the action may be, rooting for each other, giving tips, joking with each other, individuals must work together. It is important to make it very clear to the employees that the team that works the best with each