Team Feedback Paper

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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to discuss groups and teams in their functioning in relation to a chosen concept, the concept for this paper will be feedback. This paper will include a comparison between a group and a team, along with an exploration of feedback and how it relates to group processing, teamwork and the role of a nurse.
Group versus Team Before an exploration between feedback and its relation to group processing, teamwork and the nursing role can be done, groups and teams must first be defined and compared to one another in order to gain an understanding of the differences and similarities that make up each term. A group is defined as “a number of people or things gathered or classed together” (Soanes, 2001). A team …show more content…

First let’s explore the role of feedback as it relates to group processing. The importance of feedback in group processing can often be forgotten or ignored because in a group, by definition, no members are working together. However, feedback is still an important part group processing; just because no one is directly working with any other members of the group does not mean that no one can benefit from one another. If one member provides good feedback to others in the group, then there are multiple possibilities that can occur afterwards. The common theme among the possibilities is that the feedback giver will benefit or hope to benefit from the other group members from the feedback given. One thing that can happen after is that the group could start taking on other concepts and head towards becoming a team where everyone helps each other to better themselves and each other. Something else that could occur is that if feedback is provided to someone, the receiver may then explain their rationale for doing something in a certain way, which could include ideas and considerations that the giver may not have thought of prior, benefiting the member giving feedback. Continuing on the same topic of benefiting the feedback giving member, if they provide good feedback to others then they are more likely to receive good feedback in return. The last possibility that will be described is improving overall group moral. This may seem insignificant because it is not a team, but if the overall moral is improved then the working space becomes more positive and members are more likely to do more work at a higher quality. Even though the members may not be working together it goes back to theme that the feedback giving member will benefit; in this case that member would benefit from having a more positive working environment. Now feedback and its relation to team functioning will