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.
Yes,there’s a relationship between diversity and performance,and that can be achieved through the following ways:
(i) when the objectives of the project is clearly stated
(ii) The objectives are broken down to achievable units
(iii) People are shared into groups and given goals
(iv) The deadline of achieving each goal is clearly stated
(v) Monitoring team is created(in very huge project) to do follow ups on the teams
(vi) Making room for opinions and complains from teams members in anonymity
With the above-mentioned measures and more,diversity won’t stand as a barrier against performance
GEORGE NWOKOCHA (COHORT 29,TEAM 5)
Yes, diversity in a team aligns with my personal experience. I’ve seen how working in a diverse team leads to great results because everyone brings a unique skill and strength that supports outstanding performance.
Diversity makes a team more proactive, creative, and open to better solutions, so yes, there’s a clear connection between diversity and performance, which leads to superior work.
The challenges of working in a highly diverse team include differences in communication, a mix of cultural backgrounds, occasional delays in decision-making, low social cohesion at the outset, and variations in cognitive abilities. Although, when these challenges are properly managed, it leads to delivering an outstanding performance.
Yes, diversity in teams aligns with my own experience. From what I’ve observed, teams made up of people with different backgrounds often work more effectively and produce solid results. Everyone brings a unique point of view, which makes problem-solving richer and more creative. In another sense, communication is one possible challenge that comes with a highly diverse team. Differences in language, culture, or expression can sometimes create misunderstandings, but with patience and openness, those barriers can be managed and even turned into strengths.
Yes, it aligns with my experience. Diverse teams bring different perspectives, skills, and ideas, which often lead to more creative solutions and better overall performance. While challenges like communication differences and conflicting work styles can arise, the benefits of diversity usually outweigh these difficulties.
Yes it does align with my experience, diversity boosts creativity, innovations and better decisions but the challenges are there too like communication barriers can cause misunderstanding and inclusion hurdles where everyone wants to feel heard and valued so communication skills comes to play here.
Diversity is important in selecting a team because over familiarity breeds contempt. From my experience, a team can actually make a good results when they’re diverse however,there will always be a storming stage that would be resolved by understanding and effective communication.
Teams with great diversity produce great work because they come together not knowing each other. They tend to work well
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