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Listen
Qui tacet consentire (He who is silent is seen to consent) is an old principle of English law. It echoes the adage that "for wrong to succeed it is necessary only that good men say nothing".
Your main contribution to the team in your program is that you participate: ask for clarity, express your view, remind of mission, acknowledge mistakes ...
The team has an essential (in the strictest sense of that word) responsibility in your program for coherent thought, decision-making and action. The team will demonstrate all the qualities of a mature and proficient individual. It will be self-aware, honest with itself, open to new experiences and tolerant of differences. The mature individual is familiar with complexity and tensions and change, and with that experience can make "best fit" choices. So with the team.
The only way to a healthy team is that all of its members are articulate within the team. To keep your approval or disagreement to yourself risks the integrity of the team. To carry reservations or criticisms outside of the team is to provoke denial and splitting. Audi alterem partem (listen to the other point of view) is another principle of law which we enable by also expressing that other point of view. The healthiest team decision is neither a compromise nor a simplistic majority vote: it is a resolution built from the input, trust and discourse of people serious about their work.
Each of us needs our team. It is our source of learning, energy and support. And our team needs each of us. It is only as good as we, its individual members, allow it to be. So be a team player ...
Have your say.
