One of the concepts I found interesting from this week’s reading was Wholeness and Synergy. Wholeness is defined as “the result of people working with each other is different from the result of those working in isolation.” In a small group or team there is no “I” which makes everyone responsible to equally contribute for achieving the group’s goal. Everyone in a group has unique gift, talent, and place that are useful toward completing the purpose of the group.
Synergy is “created through the mixing and incorporating of each other’s thoughts and messages.” It is important to realize that just like we have different body parts; hands, feet, arms, legs, etc that works towards making us whole, individuals are like those body parts that complete the group. When these individuals and their talents utilized to making the group whole and achieve its objective, then synergy exists. Over all, groups are team; and like one of my professor said it stands for Together Everybody Achieving More.
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A brilliant comparison: members of a team are much like parts of a body. Sure, we can function without two arms, but usually it's better to have two that you can use when one isn't working properly!
ReplyDeleteThe idea that a team strives for wholeness is something that I think is underrated. It's been my experience that when someone partakes in group work (and I am guilty of this myself) that they tend to focus on what they need to do in order to succeed, rather than focusing on what the TEAM needs to do to succeed. I think that if people focused more on being in a group, and realizing that everyone is a "body part" that small groups would find more successful results.