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.
I’m of the opinion that diversity works better on projects as everyone brings their unique skills and competencies to carry out the project effectively and timely
diversity bring better creativity to a team. with team members appreciating a particular problem from different angles, it ensures a holistic view of the problem and a more comprehensive solution.
Working in a team with high diversity comes with a lot energy, the team spirit is usually high and this spour everyone to perform. The target is collectively seen as task to be achieved. Once everybody key into the vision, different skills are on display. This makes the work easier and fun to do.
I am of the opinion that diversity is the best option because it helps to put a balance. If the team is well managed little or no conflict will arise. So the success of the team lies in the hands of the team lead
Diversity is very good as a Teams.it helps boost the members to put more efforts to actualise a project
From what I have learned in the past weeks, I discovered that people management is very important. One of the points I picked is safeguarding yourself and your team. For a project to be successfully delivered, team members, whether diverse or homogenous have to be followed through and through to ensure they are also giving their all to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
To ensure my team and I are in good shape, PM shouldn’t be very pushy and demanding. Yes, you can be demanding but also need to be flexible to allow proper approach by your team and ensure adequate communication too. You need to create a proper work plan to enable all team members participate and also create time for rest in order to be refreshed.
What benefits I have seen in assigning tasks to less experienced members of my team?
Every project team member do not possess in anyway same skill set. Some are highly skilled and others are mid-skilled and it goes on like that. Every team member are saddled with the different task as it applies to their skill set. When less experienced team members are assigned with task that they will eventually learn from, they are excited to carry it out. And always make them feel whenever it is getting difficult for them, they can look up to you or any other team member for guidance. This alone with shape them and open their minds for bigger tasks ahead.
Diversity works better on projects as everyone brings their unique skills and competencies to carry out the project effectively.
I agree tha diverse teams far outperforms homogenous ones in my personal experiences, the more diverse a team the more skillful a team.
It takes one more skill set, idea, or contact to help get a team to a finish line so sometimes when the team is made up of a myriad of members you find out that you are more prepared to face the task ahead due to the high level of skill set available to choose from.
I strongly agree and believe there is a strong connection between diversity of a team And performance of a team. The goal of a PM is to succeed in the project and what better way to succeed than to have a complete team with all the necessary skills and abilities. The only issue with a more diverse team is that the storming process may likely take longer but once that is passed then norming becomes easier and performance will peak.
Diversity are unique, working with a team my team on an event, I discovered we all understand our strength, there is a bit of laxity everyone know if he does not finish his own work other team members will come to assist. On one occasion I was out of the state for an event and I could not travel with my team members. So I had to sort for guys to help out with the work, I discovered there was less communication because we don’t know each other, our primary goal was to achieve our aim of setting up the event venue for the wedding. We finished right on time, faster than when I was working with my team members. Whom we have developed quite some level of relationship.
As a project engineer working with PMs to achieve their goals in multiple yet complex projects, working with diverse teams has always yielded better results.