Question:
You have just been given an assignment to put together a plan for a collaborative team.
Review Table 1 in Chapter 2 and use it as a guideline to develop your team. You will want to avoid or minimize the risk of dysfunctional aspects while focusing on the team maintenance roles and the task oriented roles.
TABLE 1 Team Roles-Functional and Dysfunctional
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Dysfunctional: Self-Oriented Roles
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Functional: Team-Maintenance Roles
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Functional: Task-Oriented Roles
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Controlling: Dominating others by exhibiting superiority or authority
Withdrawing: Retiring from the team either by becoming silent or by refusing to deal with a particular aspect of the team's work
Attention seeking: Calling attention to oneself and demanding recognition from others
Diverting: Focusing the team's discussion on topics of interest to the individual rather than on those relevant to the task
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Encouraging: Drawing out other members by showing verbal and nonverbal support, praise, or agreement
Harmonizing: Reconciling differences among team members through mediation or by using humor to relieve tension
Compromising: Offering to yield on a point in the interest of reaching a mutually acceptable decision
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Initiating: Getting the team started on a line of inquiry
Information giving or seeking: Offering (or seeking) information relevant to questions facing the team
Coordinating: Showing relationships among ideas, clarifying issues, summarizing what the team has done
Procedure setting: Suggesting decision-making procedures that will move the team toward a goal
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What techniques and technology will you use to help the team?
The Collaborating on Communication Efforts section in Chapter 2 may help you generate ideas. Your essay should be 200 words and formatted according to APA style guidelines.