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.
Team building and capacity building can be done by organizing mini hangout, games even early morning exercise can foster team building
Diversity in team can help offer effective ideas and experiences in actualizing the project on ground because of the involvement of people with different background and experienced.
There could be unity and beauty in diversity. As a project manager, I would explore diverse teams as they will have different ideas. My job is to make everyone aligned to the same goal with their diverse experience and background
Diversity in teams can offer a range of experiences.
Working with different people not socially connected, makes the work more effective cos everyone wants to put in their best. This has been my experience.
In my opinion, diversity is an advantage to the project on ground because it is comprised of people from different background and different experiences of which they will be able to contribute different workable ideas towards the success of the project.
I have worked on a project with people that grew up in different environment and with different mindset…
In my opinion diversity increases innovation and productivity as diverse teams tend to be more creative and better at problem solving.
Yes a more diverse team does better work as they have a greater ability to solve problems and come up with innovative ideas, this in turn increases performance.
Some of the challenges of working with highly diverse teams include:
1)Difficulty in choosing from many opinions to make the best decisions.Slower decision making due to debates and arguments.
2)Differences in work styles might create problems for the team.
3)There might be clash of ideologies.
4)There might also be communication or language barriers.
As a Project manager, experience had taught me that diverse team perform better than homogenous ones. No familiarity disposition, no room for shape practices, more room for transparency.
CHALLENGES OF WORKING IN HIGHLY DIVERSE TEAM.
*Slow decision making
*Communication barrier
*Culture differences
In my experience, diverse teams are more effective but becoming a ticking time bomb to the project if the members don’t all come onboard around the same time. Adding diversity while on the run can be dangerous and end up being a set back to the project.
Good diversity in any team always produce great results and satisfied team of like-minded people.
Yes I agree with APM, there is relationship between diversity and performance because diversity leads to performance