Tmgt 361assignment Iii Instructionslectureessayif I Provide

Tmgt 361assignment Iii Instructionslectureessayif I Provide A Lecture TMGT 361 Assignment III Instructions Lecture/Essay If I provide a lecture or essay associated with a topic or assignment, I like to discuss nuances or angles not apparent in the reading materials. You probably know that in the real world things are almost always more complicated than in a book or in school. What you may not realize is that what you know about the real world is not nearly as complicated as it really is. In providing insights about the complexities of things I am not trying to wow you or bury you trivia. I am trying to prepare you for when things are not, or do not work out, as expected. My favorite Yogi Berra quote is in theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they are not. Teams The word team is overused, i.e., saying something is a team doesn’t make it so. A work gang may or may not be a team. A mere collection of persons does not make a team any more than a collection of coins makes a team. A team implies a certain level of necessary interpersonal cooperation and interaction. Sports teams provide very good examples. Note that the players on a basketball team have different talents and roles and all those roles are needed. A team of five centers is not a very good team. The coaches, locker room attendants, etc. associated with a team are really not part of the playing team; they are support (and may or may not be a support team). Five workers stripping shingles of a house are not a team if they are all doing the same job (or if adding or subtracting a couple of workers doesn’t alter what the other workers do). Neither a mere aggregate of rocks nor people are a team. Roles within a team can be repeated but if there are not identifiable roles, there is no team. To be a team, there must be a certain amount of team member autonomy. If you are playing with dolls or toy soldiers, those toys are not a team. If employees only do what they are told, when they are told, how they are told, they are probably not a team. Even when there are various roles and individuals have some autonomy and fulfilling their roles, there is not team without a certain level of shared purpose and action. A team is like a system. Think of the human circulatory system. The heart, lungs (two team members with the same role), and other parts work in concert. The members of a basketball team cannot merely have their individual roles and make individual decisions. Lastly, turn work or piece work is not team work. Let’s assume student A does this bit of a project and student B does that bit of a project, then student C puts the bits together, then student D presents the bits in class. That is not team work. Training For the most part, training and education are interchangeable.