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.
As long as the goal is to deliver a good project on time with the stipulated budget, diversity in a team I presumed in most cases is to the advantage of the project
DORIS OGECHUKWU OBEKI
TEAM 3
COHORT 9
Every team has its prevalence on the success outcomes of the project and that is paramount.
However, I will like to find myself working with the highly diverse team.We are sure to perform better because we focus on the task at hand. There is no time for discussions. We are bringing our experience and expertise to play.
When we understand our difference in sexuality, age and gender, the task is the force.
Working with a structured and controlled team is different from working with a diverse team. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Working with a diverse team gives room for learning, innovation, exchange of ideas, solutions and creativity. Yet a diverse team if not properly guided may slip from the original goal of the project and may also accommodate many conflicted opinion which may lead to loss of time in accomplishing the project.
Diversity and performance in my thoughts and minimal experience is basically that diversity with great competence will deliver excellent results in a project team because there is more professionalism and dedication to duty without sentiments.
Diversity in teams improves specializing which will in turn cut down errors been committed, moreover, time , energy and money will also be saved.
Diverse teams also have the skill in identifying potential issues and avoids biases in decision-making. This can help the group to be more dedicated and end up with well structured solutions.
To me diversity in team encourages specialisation which will cut down errors been committed. Time , energy and money will also be saved. The outcome will be increased perform.
However, if the The team charter is not well implemented, the desired outcome may not be recorded as a result of misunderstanding peculiar to diversity in teams such as power tussle, varying ideas and discrimination
Diversity is meant to improve performance by default but it does not come on a platter of gold. It is faced with a lot of storming and forming which at times result in waste of time, energy and resources to understand individual differences. If the diversity is across languages comes language and racial biases. All these differences have to be critically defined in the team charter and agreed to have a stable project implementation.
Diversity in project team brings many improvements in the performance in so many ways. As we have advantages, there are also disadvantages. But it depends on how we manage them all.
Relationship between diversity and performance can be seen in this ways:
1. Different people from different locations can result to different ideas coming together for greater development rather than homogeneous ideas without any visible improvement.
2. Diversity in team can bring about every members of the team to focus on their area of specialisation to lift the team forward. This means that there will be no time for irrelevant issues.
3. Diversity in project team can reduce number of team members while the number will be increased if it were to be homogeneous team.
Challenges of highly diverse team.
1. There may be language problem.
2. There may be conflict and disagreement in the team.
3. The finance spent in keeping the the team may be relatively high.
ADAMU MOHAMMED
COHORT 9, TEAM 6
Diversity and performance have both a good and bad relationship. Diversity with good relationships will motivate team members to put forth their best efforts because they are aware of the potential consequences of if one member.
Diverse teams are better equipped to identify potential blind spots and biases in decision-making. This can help prevent group think and lead to more well-rounded solutions.
Working in an environment that promote diversity will make teams feel motivated to work on a project which will reflect on a successful project.
Working with diverse members in a team tend to yeiled more productive and positive results because every member of the team tends to focus on his or her area of expertise in other to achieve good results because he’s working with people he has never met before, so time that should have been wasted in familiarization with team members will be devoted more on achieving the team goals. But nevertheless, they’re some key factors of the team work that may be affected, such as effective communication, team work, and idea collection may be very difficult to be seen in use to achieve team goal because team members are diversed..
Diversity as a team helps to build the team and strengthen it. It is the job of the project manager to put the diversity into use to help the growth of the project at hand
Chime Ndubueze Ejike
Cohort 9, team 3
Working with diverse team is more profitable but has its own challenges.
Working ad a project Engineer is some site has shown that Working with diverse teams yield more results.
People tend to focus on their assignments without distraction from familiarise.
They equally tend to prove themselves competent, hardworking, industrious in their field of endeavour.
But the challenges there’s competition, nepotism and verbal attacks.