Ever since I was a five years old, I have been a part of a team. Throughout my childhood, I strived to join every sport or activity team I could. Each team that I had joined, whether it had been soccer, baseball, and basketball and so on and so forth, my teammates and I have always had one common goal, success. This is why believe that our model for Building and Effective Team is so accurate. Our model portrays the key aspects every team needs to achieve in order to be successful.
Throughout my years playing on sports teams, one personal experience stands out clearly from the rest. From the time I was five years old until eleven, I played recreational soccer for my town of Germantown, Wisconsin. There was a total of four teams in our division and when we were old enough the coaches decided they wanted to join the four teams and select the very best players to play. Fortunately with my skills and determination I showed on the field, I made the team and continued to play the one sport I truly loved. Through this transition, my new teammates and I had to not only build relationships with each other but we had to overcome our diversity or our diverse backgrounds and focus on our common goal that we have always longed for, success.
The goal interdependence that my new teammates and I had shared not only helped us on the field but also built us a foundation and helped us build our relationships into friendships and in result unite us as an effective team. In building these relationships we had to know and believe that each of one us was committed to the team and then we knew that we could count on each other. After this bond was built, my teammates and I did everything together. Our relationship off the field grew so strong I can still say we are friends to this day. We would practice, travel, and compete all together as a united front. That is why our coach decided to name our team the GFC United. He had realized early on that our success wasn’t going to come easy, but he knew that our team as one unit anything was possible. Although my team had built friendships off the field quickly, we still had to build a relationship on the field in order to reach our primary goals.
By reaching our primary goals, we had to buckle down, practice, and communicate with each other to reach our ultimate outcome of success. On the field, communication was a key aspect in winning. We had to talk to each other in order to know what was happening and how we were going to work our way up the field in that specific moment. Being such a fast paced sport, our communication and accountability had reach its ultimate peak, and we became nearly a flawless unit. Our performance had sky rocketed because of our overall teamwork as a unit. My coach believed that we had even used non-verbal communication at times because we knew exactly where we were going to be on the field at the specific moment because of our sheer instinct and will to do whatever it took to win. We had to count on each other to make the right play and decision in that specific moment in time even when the pressure was unbearable. My team and I went through a lot of ups and downs, but we never strayed from our goals of success, winning, and being a united front.
I believe that my previous experience of being on a soccer team that was built front the ground up really portrays the importance of being an effective team member. We all had to pull together even when we didn’t know each other and we had to build relationships on the field as well as off the field. I believe that this experience I went through can really be implemented into this project. The main topic of this project is how to build an effective team and with my experiences playing soccer I believe with the right amount of teamwork, communication, accountability¸ and goal interdependence we can achieve this and more. I believe that these experiences of teamwork will not only help me succeed on this project, but will also strengthen my future to come in the professional world.
Throughout my years playing on sports teams, one personal experience stands out clearly from the rest. From the time I was five years old until eleven, I played recreational soccer for my town of Germantown, Wisconsin. There was a total of four teams in our division and when we were old enough the coaches decided they wanted to join the four teams and select the very best players to play. Fortunately with my skills and determination I showed on the field, I made the team and continued to play the one sport I truly loved. Through this transition, my new teammates and I had to not only build relationships with each other but we had to overcome our diversity or our diverse backgrounds and focus on our common goal that we have always longed for, success.
The goal interdependence that my new teammates and I had shared not only helped us on the field but also built us a foundation and helped us build our relationships into friendships and in result unite us as an effective team. In building these relationships we had to know and believe that each of one us was committed to the team and then we knew that we could count on each other. After this bond was built, my teammates and I did everything together. Our relationship off the field grew so strong I can still say we are friends to this day. We would practice, travel, and compete all together as a united front. That is why our coach decided to name our team the GFC United. He had realized early on that our success wasn’t going to come easy, but he knew that our team as one unit anything was possible. Although my team had built friendships off the field quickly, we still had to build a relationship on the field in order to reach our primary goals.
By reaching our primary goals, we had to buckle down, practice, and communicate with each other to reach our ultimate outcome of success. On the field, communication was a key aspect in winning. We had to talk to each other in order to know what was happening and how we were going to work our way up the field in that specific moment. Being such a fast paced sport, our communication and accountability had reach its ultimate peak, and we became nearly a flawless unit. Our performance had sky rocketed because of our overall teamwork as a unit. My coach believed that we had even used non-verbal communication at times because we knew exactly where we were going to be on the field at the specific moment because of our sheer instinct and will to do whatever it took to win. We had to count on each other to make the right play and decision in that specific moment in time even when the pressure was unbearable. My team and I went through a lot of ups and downs, but we never strayed from our goals of success, winning, and being a united front.
I believe that my previous experience of being on a soccer team that was built front the ground up really portrays the importance of being an effective team member. We all had to pull together even when we didn’t know each other and we had to build relationships on the field as well as off the field. I believe that this experience I went through can really be implemented into this project. The main topic of this project is how to build an effective team and with my experiences playing soccer I believe with the right amount of teamwork, communication, accountability¸ and goal interdependence we can achieve this and more. I believe that these experiences of teamwork will not only help me succeed on this project, but will also strengthen my future to come in the professional world.