Managing Team Issues

Managing Team Issues 

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 

8 slides (excluding title and reference slides) and speaker notes of 250 words per slide 

Objectives

- Apply principles, concepts, and techniques from the course to case studies and exercises.

- Analyze personal, professional, and organizational issues as they relate to diversity.

- Examine the various stages of team development and how to build trust among a team.

- Discuss team building and various approaches towards building high performing teams.

- Recognize various approaches to dealing with conflict.

- Assess his/her capacity to manage problems, group think, conformity, and conflict.

Assignment Details

A key component of an effective workplace is the ability of the groups to successfully collaborate. Choose a work group within your organization. Using a model of organizational improvement, plan a development project for this group. Include responses to the following in your presentation:

--  Describe the group, its purpose (work function), how this group fits into the overall organization, its reporting relationships, and its key stakeholders. 

--  How will you gather data (interviews, questionnaires, or group discussions) from the group and any key stakeholders?

--  Describe the type of data that you will need to design your development plan. 

--  How will you diagnose the level of functioning for the group? 

--  Give a few examples of developmental activities that you would use for various levels of functioning that are based on your diagnosis.      

--  How would you communicate the progress of the group to both group members and key stakeholders? 

You must include a minimum of 4 scholarly references.