Management 6

1. Please review all the videos(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstg5c3c3g8), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhwhgf01Ozw), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5-i9d70jS4) this week on teams, they are not that long, and for the most part quite interesting.

a). Identify 3-5 things that you learned that managers should do when increasing their team management skills and behaviors

b). Groupthink: This can be a silent but deadly issues with teams that seem to getting along too well - so, how will you prevent this from happening if you are a manager, or even if you are just a team member, what can you do to ensure that good team cohesiveness doesn't lead to groupthink over time?

2. Complete and score the team leadership skills Self-Assessment on pg. 411-412(SEE ATTACHEMENTS BELOW), CH 17 in your textbook.  Based on your scoring what are your strongest dimensions of team leadership and what are your lower areas that may need improvement.

a). What can you continue to do to maintain and even build on your team dimension strengths?

b). What can you do to improve upon some of your team dimension areas that need improvement ?

3. lease read the analysis section on pg 395(SEE ATTACHEMENTS BELOW), CH 17 of your textbook, "Unproductive Meetings are Major Time Wasters."

a).  What are your thoughts regarding the data presented on team meetings - have you had this same experience sitting in team meetings in a work, volunteer or class team, if so, what did you think about that experience?

b). Since we know many team meetings tend to be ineffective time wasters - what can you do to ensure as a manager or even a contributing member of a team to ensure that team meetings are more productive for you and everyone on the team?

4.) Please read pg 405(SEE ATTACHEMENTS BELOW), CH 17 in your textbook, "Amazon's Jeff Bezos Feeds Innovation with Two-Pizza Teams." 

a). After reading this, what do you think of the Two-Pizza Team concept, Please share your thoughts, use your own examples from teams you've been on that support your ideas.