Hells Kitchen Application

Describe the communication environment for each team below:
The red team displays hostile environment with a lack of communications in different aspects. There is a lack of trust and it shows by members commanding them to do something. If a member does try to communicate they get put down or yelled at. It is a blame game on the red team and they all act as individuals rather than a team. If a team member makes a mistake, then the team goes into attack mode on that individual and takes over that job.

Blue team has a much more positive environment. They trust one another to do the job at hand and make sure that they are keeping up on information by giving updates regularly. If a member throws out a time to do something, they either agree or suggest a new one and the team jumps on board. There are mistakes on blue team, but they put their best effort into helping that individual do better.

Which team, would you argue is more cohesive at this point in the game? What are the indications of the group’s cohesiveness? Provide examples of confirming and disconfirming responses as one way to support your argument.

The blue team is much more cohesive by this point in the game. You can tell they are cohesive just by the volume of their interactions. There is never yelling or shouting to another team member. They speak to one another as equals and don’t show signs of superiority. The confirming response I remember is when blue team was trying to push ahead of red team and Natalie says “We got this, we got this.” When they agree on cook times it also shows confirmation that if they don’t agree initially they find a cook time that works for all. There was a disconfirming response when Will put Tommy down after he cooked the chicken too long. Tommy knew he messed up, but afterwards was appreciative of Will helping him out.