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Reflective Summary: Team Analysis

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In my hypothetical team, I have one Japanese, one American and one Chinese, which is me. Both American and Japanese teammates are very similar to their culture norms in the test. Surprisingly, my test result did not always stick to the culture norms of Chinese. Most of the time, I am in the middle on the scale and in between my two teammates. The most extreme cases for our team are our communication and the persuading one. For communication, my American teammate is used to low context conversation and I am leaning on the low context rather than high context, whereas my Japanese teammate is used to high context conversation. For persuading, my Japanese teammate would prefer principle first and my American would prefer the other way round which …show more content…

Although it is important to make the 8 behaviors cohesion in order to have a successful team, there are some of the behaviors, which I think are more important to improve the efficiency of our team. They are communication, evaluating, disagreeing, and trusting. The reason why I choose this four as more important things to lead to success because if we have good communication, we will be more understandable and can be ready for disagreement and also comments. After we have discussions, we could have a better decision. In this essay, I am going to discuss how the behaviors affect our team and how to make use of our differences by focusing more on the four behaviors. The first thing that we need to deal with is communication. Once the team loses its communicate, the team will not work. It is difficult and tired of people who usually speak clear, straight to the point and simple to understand a complex and hidden conversation. For our group, this is our difficulty to come cross because we are in the extreme on the scale. The American teammate and I are tired of guessing the meaning between the lines that our Japanese teammate says. …show more content…

As our class mentions, conflicts are helpful to our team where it will improve and bring us further. Our Japanese teammate is trying to avoid confrontation and the American teammate and I think that it will not be bad to confront disagreeing. Although we are a small team, the Japanese teammate is feeling embarrassed to confront her disagreement. It is difficult to change her, however, it is our responsibility to let her understand why we need to speak up our disagreement. The possible way to have her to promote her disagreement, we should have a one on one chance before the meeting and ask about her opinion to see if she has any different opinions. So, one of us is going to help her to raise the disagreement. I think it is just the timing problem. When she is used to the norm and feel safety raise her voice, she will become more comfortable to confront

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