Experts have a clear understanding of the potential advantages that diversity brings to teams and organizations.
APM acknowledges that diverse teams generally outperform homogeneous ones. This correlation is increasingly evident in the performance and financial outcomes of organizations.
Does this align with your personal experience?
In a previous section, you explored exceptional and high-performing teams. Based on your own observations, do you see a connection between diversity and performance? Do teams with greater diversity produce superior work? Additionally, what challenges arise when working in highly diverse teams?
We are genuinely interested in hearing about your experiences and thoughts regarding these questions in the discussion section.
What matter most in the diverse team is the PM. And the only barrier ị can fathom is of Language. But with the Chartering and SMEAC briefing everyone should at a glance know what they are to do on any particular project.
Hence Diversity is the best in any project in my opinion.
NNAMDI MICHAEL
Group 10
Cohort 7
In my experience I agree that the best project outcome emerges from more diverse teams just like Steve Williams explained with the lifeboat crew senerio which is an example of working in a VUCA environment. People in a diverse teams do not know each other well and will not have time for cheap chats or unnecessary familiarity that might slow down their performances. They have different areas of skills or knowledge which helps to keep them more focused while working in their different assigned areas in the course of carrying out the project.
I can say that the challenges of working in a diverse team are just their cultural, religious, values, and individual differences which is taken care of by having a team charter that creates an enabling environment where team members feel respected and safe to be themselves and to express their individual perspectives and use their unique skills more.
Yes, a team that is diverse produce superior work because of the diverse knowledge, exposure and experience. Their greater challenge would be individual differences in culture, religion and values
From my personal experience, I have observed that teams with greater diversity tend to produce superior work. Diverse teams bring different perspectives and ideas to the table, which can lead to more creative solutions. However, working in highly diverse teams can also present challenges, such as communication barriers and misunderstandings due to cultural differences. It’s important for team members to be open-minded and willing to learn from one another in order to overcome these challenges.
From my personal experience, I have observed that teams with greater diversity tend to produce superior work. Diverse teams bring different perspectives and ideas to the table, which can lead to more creative solutions. However, working in highly diverse teams can also present challenges, such as communication barriers and misunderstandings due to cultural differences. It’s important for team members to be open-minded and willing to learn from one another in order to overcome these challenges.
I completely agree with the idea that diversity brings advantages to teams and organizations. Teams with diverse backgrounds and perspectives tend to perform better than homogeneous teams.
From my personal experience, I have observed that teams with greater diversity tend to produce superior work. Diverse teams bring different perspectives and ideas to the table, which can lead to more creative solutions. However, working in highly diverse teams can also present challenges, such as communication barriers and misunderstandings due to cultural differences. Diversity alone is not enough to guarantee success. It’s important for team members to be open-minded and willing to learn from one another in order to overcome these challenges, and also important to have effective communication and collaboration within the team.
Diversity and performance in projects are beneficial. This is because due to team members differences they can discuss different perspectives that will benefit the project.
In my experience as a Network Engineer and a Technical Operations Manager, diversity exist in my organization mostly when a more skilled or experience professional is required and on rare occasion can happen due to lack of human-resource or capital.
Diversity in an Emergency communication center has made work and communications faster and easier. In the sense that, some emergencies requires communication ,negotiation, express of empathy and direction in diverse language such as Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba basically.
In setting up a Technological solutions as well, diversity in skills and ethics play a big role, as there is room for learning, exposure, growth, exchange of ideas and advance collaboration amongst project Team members.
Queen Chima
Cohort 7, Team 9.
There is indeed strength in team diversity and performance. This is because there will be no time for familiarity exchanges and chitchats. When people who are for different roles and responsibilities find themselves working together to achieve a common goal, there is only one objective – to deliver.
This then means that there’d be a high level of concentration on the deliverables to ensure a productive and expected end.
However, there could pose certain problems in this scenario because of individual differences.
Firstly, there’d always be those category of people who extend their level of influence in their former role to their new role. They tend to try to exert influence on their new environment, thinking everyone would respond as it were in their former place. And where there is a negative response to it, there is bound to be a feeling of rejection which would often lead to withdrawal. So, the individual withdraws to himself, thereby denying the team of the potential good contributions he may have brought to the situation on ground.
Again, there could be a misunderstanding of one another’s temperance, communication style and level of reasoning because of unfamiliarity.
As a group leader as an undergraduate student, i discovered that diversity tend to have a better performance than homogenous, this is because people’s ability are not known and everyone wants to bring out the best in them and make the project a successful one, there’s little or no over familiarity, everyone tends to be focused in making the project a success
Non is better as far there’s productivity, positive attitude, teamwork, and exploration of ideas however
Diversity brings peace and ensures each work and effort of every member are seen and for this to work, there must be mutual understanding and respect for anyone’s strategy.
As a mechanical engineer, i basically work in a production team that works well on the linear or waterfall method. irrespective of this, there are still some situation where team is built up from diverse unit, for example during the company’s annual product stock taking, members of each team were developed randomly from different department and despite the diversity, we had a lot of time to focus on the work (straight-to-business), as there was no too much delay due to over familiarity with one another. secondly, there was respect for one another based on each of our role because, you know no ones competence and hence, tend to respect anyone and everyone just the way they are.