Team Work Experience

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Positive cooperation and teamwork experience as a student Positive cooperation and teamwork experience Teamwork is where team members have a common goal or purpose. Teamwork relies upon individuals working together in a cooperative environment to achieve common team goals through sharing knowledge and skills. I will write about the group work we had to do last semester in Project Management. Our group had five members. The topic of our project was to promote FIFA World cup games in Berlin where we acted as the officials of Brazilian Embassy in Berlin. I was selected as the team leader and we all divided our tasks. All five members in my team had different cultural background. When these members apply different skills in a project, they come up with more innovative ideas. Working with others means you’re not alone. Whenever you have a question or problem, there will be other people around to help you out. We had arranged several group meeting to keep track of the progress. Since the project tasks were interdependent, so, the communication and group meeting were very essential for the project to be completed. Working in such a diverse team was really interesting. We had an American and British in our team. They preferred to do one-thing at a time which will be systematically planned in advance. In our team, where some members (me, Chinese and Pakistani fellows) wanted to meet frequently and discuss the progress face-to-face, others wanted to meet once every two weeks and keep discussing via email, facebook etc. Two members even got into the row when a member decided not to show up for the meeting twice and rather go to gym. Besides that, Chinese and Pakistani members wanted to have some suggestions and feedback on how they had worked, but American and British were more reserved and did not want to mix up in the tasks of the other members. Neither did they seek for

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