Assignment:
Effective Teams
In Team Assignment you will be interacting with classmates as a team member as assigned by your instructor in the team areas. As you address the Assignment you will practice building relationships with your teammates. This is a skill often used in business or project teams.
You will discuss this Assignment and your team PowerPoint with your teammates in your specific Team Area
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.
1. View the video, "Herman Miller - Motivation, Leadership, and Teamwork."
2. 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.
3. After viewing the video, reading the textbook, and conducting research in the Library,
• 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?