How I Will Use My Team Charter to Improve Performance

Management 521

Outline
The paper is a continuous essay which has the following parts:
Introduction
This part introduces the wider concept of teams and introduces the focus of my essay.
Body
This is a detailed section that shows how I will use my team charter to improve my performance
Conclusion
This part reiterates the main ideas of the essay. No new ideas are introduced here.

How I Will Use My Team Charter to Improve Performance Team formation always comes with goals. It is not possible to come across people who come together without a reason for doing so. At the end of the day, the aim that is established for the team has to be of value to the lives of the individual members of the team (Engleberg, Wynn & Schuttler 2003, pp.172-176). What will happen if individual members will not gain anything from the team? It is possible that members will move away from the team. The team charter that we formed as learners is a guide in our effort to meet the objective of the team as well as fulfilling individual goals (University of Phoenix 2004, p.1). As a team, we have the objective of ensuring that we have a successful learning team. Success is in terms of being able to accomplish assignments on time and in the best possible way. At personal level, I aim at excelling in my studies through my participation in the team. I can confidently speculate that this is an aim that I share with most if not all of my group members. In this essay, I will explain how I will uplift my performance by using the team charter of my learning team. To begin with, I will use my team charter to improve my performance by paying keen attention to what the other group members have to say during our discussions. In the assignment of roles, each team member was assigned what he or she said he or she would do best. This therefore means that I will have a chance of seeing and hearing my team members bring out their best. What other learning opportunity can be better than this one? I will be able to get the best ideas in the disciplines that we will be dealing with and this is a sure way of improving my performance (Engleberg, Wynn & Schuttler 2003, pp.175-179).

Leaving the above aside, I will use the team charter to improve my performance through the opportunity to perform the roles assigned to me. In our team, there are opportunities to address the rest of the members when handling what one has been assigned. This will be a chance for me to do practice in group presentation in particular and public presentation in general I am confident that by the time the group accomplishes its objective, I will have gained not only more confidence in public speaking but also new ideas in self expression. Watching my team members make their presentations will also be an opportunity to note the strengths of each of them in making presentations and then weighing them against mine so as to see what I need to change and what I need to maintain. While looking back at my Jungian personality style I have received the letter designation code of ESTJ. I do believe that to be accurate because it says that a person with that personality is better off to be a person who realistic, analytical and decisive. I feel that I am all of those traits and more. Having these traits will allow me and the team to become a powerful collaborating team that should not have a problem with assignments. In addition to the above, I will use the team charter to observe self discipline in the way I deal with my academic work; an element that will definitely have a positive impact on my performance. I am used to procrastinations in doing my assignments, and the fact that we have agreed as a team to ensure that we do our parts by the deadlines is a source of pressure for me to learn to observe deadlines in not only my class work but also in other life situations. This will go a long way in helping me avoid the delivery of late assignments to my instructors. Late assignments have lowered my performance a number of times in the past. In conclusion, learning the best ideas in our subject from my fellow team members, learning how to express myself and address people in public, and acquiring the discipline of doing my assignments on time are some of the way in which our team charter will help me improve my performance.

References.

Engleberg, I., Wynn, D., and Schuttler, R., (2003). Working In Groups: Communication Principles and Strategies (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

University of Phoenix. (2004). Learning Team Toolkit. Retrieved 15th August 2010, from the University of Phoenix student/faculty website: http://ecampus.phoenix.edu