Dysfunctions Of A Team Book Report

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a book that walk through a leaders perspective of a uncooperative team. The leader Kathryn take the management team of Decision Tech to an off site team building ____. They group works through the five dysfunctions and reflects on their own positions within the company. In any business people must interact. When a team of people are working together there must be a level of respect and rapore to build a better future of success for the business. Patrick Lencioni lays out the pyramid of model for a team to identify areas of weakness. The first dysfunction is abscesses of trust. When team member are unwilling to express themselves with strengths and weaknesses, posses a ripple in the team. Each member

People are not going to stand behind a decision without understand the reason, this again reverts back to the debate of a concept. All sides must be taken into account. Kathryn explained “when people don’t unload their opinion and feel like they’ve been listen to they won’t really get on board” (Lencioni, p. 94, 2002). Everyone will not agree all the time; however, that doesn’t mean they will not have buy-in. If there is a concern, people want to be heard, they want their side to be taken into consideration. A school may be department teams, grade level teams, administrative teams each person has a voice within their team if it is working properly. When an issues arises feelings and concerns need to be addressed than a decision should be made. The decision must be made without bias and the team goal must remain in tacked. In Challenger K8 the Postive Behaiovr Support Team was introducing requirements for nine week celebration events. The team already unanimously voted that a requirement should be no office discipline referrals. There was a trend of middle schoolers faling due to lack of effort, so it was proposed that grades should be taken in to account for middle school students. As the team spoke many people were not sure it was fair, some people wanted no failing grades as a requirement for the whole school and some didn’t even want to acknowledge the grades. The leader of the team had asked to postpone this discussion so everyone can talk with their grade levels and be ready to present their finds at the next meeting where they can present and then vote. Everyone was in agreement. The next meeting each person had 3 minutes to speak. After which a ballot was taken and verdict was that the requirements were no office discipline referrals and no grades below 59.5% in a core subject for the nine grade levels. Each person was capable of expressing the reason why the requirements were placed and the