Personal Application #2
It was initially hard for me to think of a team that I have recently been apart of. It took me a little while to realize that I am actually a part of a team almost every day, when I’m doing something as simple as playing video games. I play a very popular online game known as League of Legends, where two teams of five battle against each other attempting to capture objectives and destroy the other teams base. Each member of a team plays a crucial role for the team to ensure a victory, and each player must work with their team otherwise their chance of failure goes through the roof.
The first part of the game starts with picking the players that each person will play for the duration of the game. Each team switches off picking their players and as the teams pick both teams can see what the other picked and try and pick a better matchup for that player. In this stage of the game diversity is the most important because you want each individual player to be stronger than their opponent, but you also want to pick players that the other team isn’t used to facing. Communication is not just important in setting up the team, you need to make sure that all of your teammates communicate throughout the whole game to make sure that everyone understands what the team as a whole is trying to accomplish. Adding diversity to your team and using communication with your teammates to apply that diversity will lead to new ideas for your teammates and with communication your teammates will be able to better understand those ideas and will learn faster from them.
Once in game the team needs to still communicate with each other to have an overall understanding of what they want to accomplish. However, to make an effective high performance team you need a strong leader, and for our model we thought that a good leader would have two major characteristics. The first characteristic is being an energizer. In my situation what works best is to designate one person as the leader to do most of the shot calling for the whole team. The second characteristic is being a procedural-technician. The leader needs to be able to apply both characteristics to the game at any given time. They will routinely scan the map for any weak points in the enemy team, and then aim them for that objective. Once on that plan a strong leader needs to get the team excited and interested in what they are doing so that they will work together the best and will commit to what each other player does. This form of structured leadership works best because it makes sure the team is always doing the most important objective to win the game and is always in good spirits, because if you start falling behind it takes a great energizer to keep your team on track. During this part of the game there is still communication between members but less of it, therefore each teammate must trust in the other’s to know that they have the individual skills to create a great team.
Like I said when introducing the game, each teammate plays a specific role for the team and they all need to play that role extremely well and work with their team to make sure their role is doing everything they are supposed to. At the start of the game teammates split up with 3 going on their own and 2 working together in one part of the map. At this point teammates are required to focus on their individual tasks so that there is less pressure on the rest of the teammates. It takes a great teammate to be able to focus on individual tasks as well as tasks that your whole team is required to complete, such as objectives that give your team bonus stats that will help in influencing a victory. A team member also has to be adaptive to new ideas for the team. In my team some of our teammates are usually hesitant when new ideas are brought up which can slow us down. Once they become understanding of why the new idea could work for us better the whole team plays better as a whole, because they have the trust in their teammate who may be playing a new player in the game that typically doesn’t do the role that they are usually aren’t thought to play. These individual characteristics fit perfectly into the required group characteristics that make and effective team. With the whole team working together correctly it makes the leader’s job easier and makes the required effort of making a high performance team much less.
The first part of the game starts with picking the players that each person will play for the duration of the game. Each team switches off picking their players and as the teams pick both teams can see what the other picked and try and pick a better matchup for that player. In this stage of the game diversity is the most important because you want each individual player to be stronger than their opponent, but you also want to pick players that the other team isn’t used to facing. Communication is not just important in setting up the team, you need to make sure that all of your teammates communicate throughout the whole game to make sure that everyone understands what the team as a whole is trying to accomplish. Adding diversity to your team and using communication with your teammates to apply that diversity will lead to new ideas for your teammates and with communication your teammates will be able to better understand those ideas and will learn faster from them.
Once in game the team needs to still communicate with each other to have an overall understanding of what they want to accomplish. However, to make an effective high performance team you need a strong leader, and for our model we thought that a good leader would have two major characteristics. The first characteristic is being an energizer. In my situation what works best is to designate one person as the leader to do most of the shot calling for the whole team. The second characteristic is being a procedural-technician. The leader needs to be able to apply both characteristics to the game at any given time. They will routinely scan the map for any weak points in the enemy team, and then aim them for that objective. Once on that plan a strong leader needs to get the team excited and interested in what they are doing so that they will work together the best and will commit to what each other player does. This form of structured leadership works best because it makes sure the team is always doing the most important objective to win the game and is always in good spirits, because if you start falling behind it takes a great energizer to keep your team on track. During this part of the game there is still communication between members but less of it, therefore each teammate must trust in the other’s to know that they have the individual skills to create a great team.
Like I said when introducing the game, each teammate plays a specific role for the team and they all need to play that role extremely well and work with their team to make sure their role is doing everything they are supposed to. At the start of the game teammates split up with 3 going on their own and 2 working together in one part of the map. At this point teammates are required to focus on their individual tasks so that there is less pressure on the rest of the teammates. It takes a great teammate to be able to focus on individual tasks as well as tasks that your whole team is required to complete, such as objectives that give your team bonus stats that will help in influencing a victory. A team member also has to be adaptive to new ideas for the team. In my team some of our teammates are usually hesitant when new ideas are brought up which can slow us down. Once they become understanding of why the new idea could work for us better the whole team plays better as a whole, because they have the trust in their teammate who may be playing a new player in the game that typically doesn’t do the role that they are usually aren’t thought to play. These individual characteristics fit perfectly into the required group characteristics that make and effective team. With the whole team working together correctly it makes the leader’s job easier and makes the required effort of making a high performance team much less.