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.
Agreed, a team with diversity tend to perform better than homogenous ones due to these different stated factors:
Cultural backgrounds
Educational and social value
Environmental influence and exposure.
Belief and orientation
I worked and managed a team that comprised different members from 14 branches with diverse social,educational and cultural background, we pooled a greater result than most teams with homegenious society.
Truely, diverse teams outperform homogenous ones thereby putting together their ideas, goals, skills and strategies to give an outstanding outcome.
Yes, teams with great diversity gives superior work; giving room for each member of d team to b multi tasking
The challenges faced are communication, ability to take risks and fund raising
There is a great connection between diversity and performance. This is because team with greater diversity produces superior work. They are focused and able to combine their knowledge, skills, experience and capacity together to achieve the set goals.
Some of the challenges that may be faced include communication issues and more fund spending.
OBINWA CHIMAMAKA:COHORT 9,TEAM 7
In my work place,i work with different kinds of individuals from different background,social norms,languages,cultures and beliefs.As much as it is difficult to communicate and imbibe your values while working together with them it is also advantageous being that i get to learn about their own values,culture and way of life.Howbeit,there is a relationship between diversity and perfomance,it can improve efficiency and performance or reduce efficiency and performance.What do i mean?Performance and efficiency can be improved if the diverse individuals involved set aside their differences and decide to work towards maximum efficiency whereas it could be impossible if the individuals decide to hold onto their diversity and refuse to agree at a common ground for maximum efficiency.But personally i feel it is more easier to work with homogenous teams especially when their is limited time for the project.
Diversity is part of learning in life.
In my profession, I have had the opportunity to work with in different teams made of people with varying background.
This variety in background has assisted the teams in focusing quickly on the project at hand. There was very little time for bonding because the project was time based.
Communication among team members was enhanced with mutual respect as each stakeholders was not ready to offend or be offended by the other party.
In my project management experience, diversity has played an important role in shaping the flow of the projects i have worked on. ,here is never a moment the project gets paused because of the absence of a team member handling a segment of the project. that was diversity delivering
Is there a relationship between diversity and homogenous teams? YES.
It is the same actors in the homogenous settings that metamorphosed and gather experience from specialised skilled team members to diverse team players. No doubt a diverse team will function with better options and more ideas from team members because everyone is having an idea about everything from experience gathered overtime, as such they can brain storm and come up with better options and ideas on how to navigate around the project for best result or easily get out of a challenge. For instance if they ever encounter a missing team member due to unforeseen problem that could arise in the course of carrying the job such as sickness or absence of a team member beyond the control of the actor.
Diversity creates room for team members to be multitasking and this is an advantage to the team on both financial aspect and time control.
Cohort 9 : team 1
Diversity in team always bring high performance and good output and outcomes, diverse team tend to solve problem faster due to the fact that everyone is bringing on board diverse skills experiences and expertise as everyone will love to deliver their best.
In a much that diversity in team has an advantages, it also has its limitations which are;
– Different pattern of works
– clash of opinions
– Unhealthy rivalry/ competitions
– Low team cohesion
– Difficulties in understanding each other.
I have once worked with a team of 5 with different skills and profession. From the get go we knew what we wanted to achieve and our variouse roles for the project as it was clearly stated by the project manager. You could call us a team of professionals. Because we already Knew what we wanted to achieve we executed our work very fast and without errors.
I believe that diversity in team members brings about greater level of performance cos there will be high level of creativity, skills and productivity among team members that will lead to the actualization of their goals faster and on time in other to meet up target.
Diversity in team often improve decision making in the sense that members with different perspective and background can challenge each other’s assumptions and bring alternative insight about a particular subject on table leading to more thorough and clear evaluation
Yes, there is often a positive relationship between diversity and team performance. More diverse teams can indeed lead to better work outcomes. Diverse teams bring together individuals with a wide range of perspectives, skills, and experiences. This diversity can foster creativity, innovation, and problem-solving, as different viewpoints can lead to more comprehensive solutions and ideas.
In most cases successful team are always with a team with diversity. Reason is that, in the absent of little or no familiarity their main focus is to ensure that the task is performed and thier focus is to complete at a given and successfully. For example, In my cohort I do not know anyone physically but connect virtually yet when it comes to task we performed it as a team with commitment
COHORT 9, TEAM 3. CYNTHIA ONYINYE OKEKE
In my experience of forming teams for a project, it is more effective to group people with shared values, though the team members may be diversified (having different viewpoint, experience level, educational qualification). This helps to create room for the team to learn from each other. Also, diversity encourages creativity and innovative ideas that are geared towards solving problems in a timely manner.
COHORT 9 TEAM 1
Diversity can breed better performance in a project. It brings about interact though in a limited time, cohesion and effectiveness