What you need in a team

On Thursday's Creativity and Concept lecture, we worked in groups to focus on team-work. We discussed that a team is 2 or more people working together to achieve the same goal. We also talked about the negatives in teams that can occur such as having no communication with each other, taking control of everything, not sharing out tasks and not listening to other people's ideas. We felt these were important negatives to think about, as they are ones that affect how a team works, as it can cause problems and make team members feel less motivated. Having been in a difficult team to work with in the past, I could relate to some of the things said.  We discussed solutions to these problems, and the one we felt most effective was to talk to a team member face to face about problems, rather than in text, as people can be misunderstood. It would also be better to have all the group join to sort problems out but have just one person talking, so no member of the team feels intimidated by all members of the team.