Assignment: Effective Teams
Today in the business world the ability to work in effective teams is necessary since much of the work done in organizations is accomplished as part of a team. In order to get some experience with these concepts, you will first view a video on teams, then read the scenario, and finally create a minimum 10-slide PowerPoint presentation (and include an additional title and references slide) based on the checklist items. You may include any detailed notes in the “Notes” section of the PowerPoint presentation.
- View the video, “Herman Miller – Motivation, Leadership, and Teamwork.”
- http://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/streaming/bp/2013/MGMT/OB/HMILL-VID4-WEB640.html
Read the Scenario:
You work for an organization which operates in a service sector and has more than 500 employees. Recently your company has experienced issues with employee teamwork. Employees seem to be having difficulty working well together in various teams. Your boss has asked you to lead an effort to research ways to create an effective team work environment and give him advice on how to solve the problem. After you conduct your research, you will deliver a presentation to the CEO and Board of Directors on your findings. After viewing the video, reading the textbook, and conducting research in the Kaplan library, complete the following Assignment with your team:
- Complete the Checklist items based on your chapter Reading, research, and on the scenario provided.
Based on this Checklist items below, decide which team member will be responsible for each checklist item in the following table as seen here located on the last slide of your PowerPoint presentation. Use the PowerPoint template located In Doc Sharing for completing this Unit 6 Team Assignment. Your grading rubric and your individual Peer Evaluation template are located below.
Checklist: Download the Unit 6 Assignment Template and address the Team Table on slide #8.
- Describe the different types of teams.
- Describe the determining factors that typify an effective team.
- Explain how to create team players based on your experience and your research and readings from the text.
- Help the CEO in the scenario by applying what you have learned regarding teams to solve the team problems:
How can the teams effectively build trust amongst team members?
How might the CEO encourage collaboration in a team environment?
Directions for submitting your Assignment:
Please make sure that:
- One team member is designated to upload the Team Assignment to the Unit 6 Dropbox.
- Each team member submits their own Peer Evaluation form to the Unit 6 Peer Evaluation Dropbox.
Before you submit your team PowerPoint presentation, you should save your work using the correct naming convention: Ex: Team A_Unit 6 Assignment and assign one member of your team to submit it to the Dropbox.
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