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Introduction

Effective business leadership requires a mastery of group and team dynamics. In order to meet these needs, individuals must learn strategies for group communication, team building, and leadership to assist organizations in meeting goals. Organizational personnel must learn team strategies and appropriately apply them, as organizations increasingly operate with teams and work groups in both collocated and virtual settings.

In this task, you will write a paper that reviews key concepts related to team development, which will better prepare you for the teamwork required for next TASK.

Requirements

Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the University similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A.  Write a paper ( length 8 pages) in which you analyze the factors that influence professional team dynamics and group development by doing the following:

1.  Discuss  at least  three factors to consider when creating professional teams or work groups.

2.  Discuss  three practices that help build trust among team members.

3.  Explain how team structure can impact team effectiveness.

4.  Discuss  at least  two strategies for clarifying the purpose of a team.

5.  Discuss how individuals in a team can use power or influence to achieve team objectives.

6.  Discuss how the strengths of individual team members can be capitalized on to achieve team objectives.

7.  Discuss  three ways in which technology affects communication in virtual teams.

B.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

C.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Rubric

A1:Factors to Consider

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of at least 3 factors to consider when creating professional teams or work groups.

A2:Three Practices

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of 3 practices that help build trust among team members.

A3:Team Effectiveness

Competent

The candidate provides a logical explanation, with sufficient support, of how team structure can impact team effectiveness.

A4:Purpose of a Team

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of at least 2 strategies for clarifying the purpose of a team.

A5:Power or Influence

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of how individuals in a team can use power or influence to achieve team objectives.

A6:Strengths of Team Members

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of how the strengths of individual team members can be capitalized on to achieve team objectives.

A7: Technology and Communication:

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of 3 ways in which technology affects communication in virtual teams.

B: Sources

Competent

The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.

C: Professional Communication

Competent

This submission includes satisfactory use of grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, and punctuation, which promote accurate interpretation and understanding.