Team Knowledge

I think that team’s successfulness is directly correlated to the ability of using team’s knowledge. This means taking the most out of already existing knowledge and skills of each team member as well as making it possible to accumulate new knowledge and skills.

One team – one language

In many multicultural teams it happens that people start talking to each other using their native language. Main problem is that this way we effectively cut off those in the team who do not understand given language. This essentially means that osmotic communication doesn’t work. If topic is discussed in a language that everybody understands then everyone has a chance to join conversation even if he/she was not addressed when discussion was started. However, if non-common language is used then there is high risk that full potential of the team is not used when decisions are made.