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Team Development Plan
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Team Development Plan
Introduction
In ensuring the stakeholders identified for the project coordinated well, a team will be developed and managed through the use of a well-designed and developed project team plan. The project team will comprise of a project manager, an office manager, contractor, finance team and other members of the project team. The members comprise of employees of the organization such as employees who are selected from different departments in the organization as outlined through the highlighted leaders. With the diverse nature of the stakeholders of the project, there is a need to ensure the stakeholders or members of the project team communicate effectively and understand each other to enhance collaboration among themselves. This calls for the use of an efficient human resource tool, an implementation approach, regulations and emotional intelligence techniques. Also, there has to be effective conflict resolution strategies, conflict sources and ways of measuring goals and rewards. In this paper, all these components of team development and management plan are discussed in detail with the aim of determining how the project team will be managed efficiently.
Team Development Plan
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Policy |
Detail |
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Human resource tool. |
Bonusly platform. The human resource tool allows the members of the organization to interact with each other and identify their strengths and weaknesses in efforts to building stringer teams. Also, it allows the members of the organization to feel engaged in the performance of the organization and the project. This is because the platform allows the members of the project team to communicate effectively regardless of the difference in leadership positions among the members of the team (Bonusly.com, 2021). |
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Implementation approach. |
Agile approach. The reason for using the approach is to allows the members of the project team adjust the project based on the prevailing needs of the organization. This will allow the organization to operate efficiently and attain the project objectives (Cooper & Sommer, 2018). |
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Ground rules for team meetings and interactions |
1. Every member of the team is expected to arrive on time and be prepared for the meetings. 2. Every member is expected to contribute to the meeting goals. 3. Every member is expected to contribute and allow others to make their participations. 4. Every member shall stay on point and on time at all times while making contributions. |
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Demonstrating emotional intelligence |
1. The strengths and weaknesses of members shall be identified. 2. Project team norms shall be built before developing the team. 3. Effective ways to manage stress shall be developed. 4. Every member of the team shall be allowed to have a voice. |
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Conflict resolution strategies |
1. The project team manager shall communicate with each party to the conflict individually to understand the source of the problem. 2. A plan shall be drawn on how to address a prevailing conflict. 3. Following up of conflict shall be done regularly. |
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Conflict sources |
1. Task interdependencies among the project team members. 2. Communication and language barriers among the project members. 3. Lack of common performance metrics. 4. Status inconsistencies among the members of the project team members. |
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Measuring goals and rewards |
1. In setting goals, the company’s goal will be used as the major source of reference. 2. The SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-related) (Pinter & Cisar, 2018). · Each project shall have individual metrics to determine the performance. · ‘CEO for the day’ will be used in rewarding achievements within the project where a member is recognized for efforts and allowed to make speech to others. |
Conclusion
The project activities are conducted efficiently if the project team members managed efficiently through developing a project team plan. As summarized in the analysis table, each activity and aspect of the team has to be managed through incorporating necessary strategies.
References
Bonusly.com (2021). Fun, Personal Employee Recognition and Rewards. https://bonus.ly/
Cooper, R. G., & Sommer, A. F. (2018). Agile–Stage-Gate for Manufacturers: Changing the Way New Products Are Developed Integrating Agile project management methods into a Stage-Gate system offers both opportunities and challenges. Research-Technology Management, 61(2), 17-26.
Pinter, R., & Cisar, S. M. (2018). Measuring Team Member Performance in Project Based Learning. Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences, 8(4), 22-34.
