1) CCS is important to team/organizational effectiveness because it is what makes people work as a unit. It gives a group the ability to work with together, organize a plan, and find the extra energy to combine their talents. It is not always necessary in my opinion because if someone in the group specializes in an area they may take the majority of the workload. With that being said, most aspects are used of CCS, but occasionally it may not need to be.
2) Some individual and team competencies needed for successful CCS are collaboration, coordination, and synergy. I believe these other competencies fall under those categories as well: leadership, organizational skills, time management, cooperation, and hard-work. A person can become better at collaboration by listening to others. Group members who are organized and map out ideas will be better at coordination. Also, a group member needs to get excited about the task to have successful synergy. In our group exercise, we could have listened to each other more, organized the plan to build a barrier for the "egg" better, and we could have been more excited about the task at hand in order to be more successful.
3) http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_10_02_slnmlb_phimlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=stl
In the article above, it is discussed how the St. Louis Cardinals used CCS to comeback and win Game 2 of the NLDS against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cardinals went down early in the game when the Phillies stormed out to a 4-0 lead. The Cardinals had to use synergy to combine all their efforts into making a comeback because of this early deficit. Then, early in the game, the bullpen had to come in so Manager Tony LaRussa needed to use coordination with his coaching staff to decided what pitcher to use when. Then, the rest of the game was the use of collaboration, from batters to pitchers everyone contributed to a team win. The Cardinals came back to win an astounding 5-4 victory because of the use of CCS.
--Trey Tennell
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