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.
Teams with a diverse membership perform better because they are more innovative, problem-solving, and decision-making skills are strengthened. It provides broader perspectives and adds more data to the discussion.
In my own experience, teams with greater diversity outplays homogeneous team.
I was opportuned to work at the Largest Single train Refinery Project in Lagos, Nigeria where diverse teams synergize to achieve targets. There were sophisticated skills, ideas, innovations, challenges, no lost man-hours, resilience which gave birth to excellent and second to none project.
But of the disadvantages of teams with diverse members includes communication barrier which could easily lead to misunderstanding and rework.
There is a certain excitement in performing in diversity. it creates a more complete team that will undertake a project from different perspective and experiences
Maria Assumpta Nwaigbo
Diversity brings about creativity and innovation, everyone tends to bring in their prospective and knowledge to the assigned project for effective performance.
In my experience, I find that diversity encourages creativity, productivity, and meeting of deadlines. I find this a lot when I have to open a new store; where I have to work with new sets of managers/supervisors that I am not familiar with, crew members that are diverse in terms of cognitive skills, gender, and age. I have found out that the less I am familiar with team, and the more diverse they are, the more productive we are. That being said, it is important to properly define the projects properly to know how to approach it and know if more diversity or homogeneity is required.
Yes, research has shown that there is a positive relationship between diversity and team performance. More diverse teams tend to do better work because they bring a wider range of perspectives, experiences, and skills, leading to increased creativity, problem-solving abilities, and adaptability.
However, working in highly diverse teams can also present some challenges. Communication may become more complex due to differing cultural norms and language barriers. There can be misunderstandings and conflicts arising from different viewpoints and approaches. Building trust and cohesion within the team might require extra effort as people from diverse backgrounds may take time to understand and appreciate each other’s contributions.
Ekwuribe Uzochukwu C
Cohort 8 Team 4
Diversity can impact performance and increase productivity. A more productive workforce translates to higher profits. Secondly, diverse teams tend to be more creative and better at problem-solving. Some challenges are: slow decision making, self-motive and communication issues etc.
Diversity in a project do affect the performance of the team.
In most projects, having this differences tends to frustrate the PM and slow down the general performance as a team.
From my personal experience, diverse teams doesn’t work better than homogenous teams.
Some may believe that diversity brings the best results but this is situational. There are instances when diversity brings poor result, this may affect the inability to arrive at a consensus. In my experience, there is a significant relationship between diversity and performance
Some may believe that diversity brings the best results but this is situational. There are instances when diversity brings poor result, this may be affect the inability to arrive at a consensus. In my experience, there is a significant relationship between diversity and performance
Diversity can impact performance, team member satisfaction or the innovative capacity of a team. A more diverse team does better work. For one, diversity increases productivity. A more productive workforce translates to higher profits. Secondly, diverse teams tend to be more creative and better at problem-solving. Some challenges are: slow decision making, discrimination and communication issues etc.
ANENE AMARACHI SARAH
COHORT 8, TEAM 2.