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ProjectGuidelinesandRubric.html.zipProject Guidelines and Rubric.html
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
- Integrate elements of professional codes of conduct and personal behaviors, as well as principles of team dynamics, in a variety of communication contexts
Scenario
Whole Health is a large company that partners with various organizations to promote employees making healthy choices at work, whether it be making nutritious decisions in the cafeteria, getting up and moving during the day, or taking a few minutes to do something that makes them happy each day. Whole Health has recently decided that its current messaging systems to the employees of the organizations it works with need to be revamped. It has assembled a small team of representatives from various departments to brainstorm how to approach this task.
In the small group, there is an incredible amount of experience, creativity, and work ethic. However, each representative has a distinct set of priorities and expectations for the final product, which has made working together rather difficult. You have offered to help mitigate this roadblock by developing a set of collaborative norms that exemplify professional codes of conduct and principles of team dynamics that can be shared with the group.
Directions
For this project, you will develop a set of collaborative norms that exemplify professional codes of conduct and principles of team dynamics. Your project team at Whole Health can use what you develop to overcome barriers hindering your ability to effectively collaborate on revising messaging to your clients’ employees. To complete this task, you will need to address the following:
- Barriers to Collaboration: Analyze the Project Team Notes document to identify potential barriers to collaboration.
- Are there conflicting priorities?
- Are there conflicting working styles?
- Where might implicit bias impact collaboration?
- Codes of Conduct: Determine how professional codes of conduct can be incorporated into collaborative norms to help overcome the identified barriers to collaboration.
- What are considered best practices when collaborating professionally?
- Team Dynamics: Determine how principles of team dynamics can be incorporated into collaborative norms to help overcome the identified barriers to collaboration.
- How can information sharing and feedback be used to build professional relationships?
- What is the role of emotional intelligence in collaboration?
- Norm Development: Develop a set of collaborative norms that are informed by professional best practices and that your project team can use to collaborate effectively.
- Norm Justification: Include a brief explanation of the purpose and value of each developed collaborative norm. Make sure to consider the following in your justifications:
- How are your collaborative norms supported by professional codes of conduct?
- How do your norms support principles of team dynamics?
- How will your norms address your identified barriers to collaboration?
- How will your norms encourage effective collaboration and meet the needs of all project team members?
- Norm Introduction: Determine how the new norms should be introduced to the project team.
- How should the norms be introduced to the team to increase buy-in?
- Continued Use of Norms: Determine how the new norms will be used by the project team moving forward.
- How will the new collaborative norms be used as work continues?
- How will alignment to the new collaborative norms be maintained?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
This assignment must be submitted as a 500- to 750-word Microsoft Word document. Any sources should be cited in APA style.
Supporting Materials
The following resource may help support your work on the project:
Reading: Project Team Notes This document provides notes on each of the representatives on the project team. It can be used to identify potential conflicts of interest, areas of opportunity, and strengths for each team member.
Project Two Rubric
| Criteria | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (85%) | Needs Improvement (55%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barriers to Collaboration | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Correctly identifies potential barriers to collaboration through the analysis of the project team notes and the application of supporting evidence | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include the use of supporting evidence | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| Codes of Conduct | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Effectively integrates professional codes of conduct into the development of collaborative norms | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include more purposefully integrating professional codes of conduct into the development of collaborative norms | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| Team Dynamics | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Effectively integrates principles of team dynamics into the development of collaborative norms | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include more purposefully integrating principles of team dynamics into the development of collaborative norms | Does not attempt criterion | 10 |
| Norm Development | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Develops collaborative norms that address identified barriers to collaboration and support professional best practices | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include more appropriately addressing identified barriers to collaboration or better supporting the proposed norms with evidence of best practices | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| Norm Justification | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Uses supporting evidence to justify how developed norms will positively impact collaboration within the identified team | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining justifications in greater detail or using more appropriate supporting evidence in the justifications | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| Norm Introduction | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Describes how norms should be introduced to the team to increase team buy-in based on collaborative best practices | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include incorporating better best practices to introduce the new norms | Does not attempt criterion | 10 |
| Continued Use of Norms | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Describes how norms will continue to be used and maintained within the identified team | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing specific strategies for how the norms will be used and maintained | Does not attempt criterion | 10 |
| Articulation of Response | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability | Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas | 5 |
| Citations and Attributions | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors | Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution | 5 |
| Total: | 100% |
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course_documents/COM 405 Project Team Notes.pdf
COM 405 Project Team Notes Marketing Representative: Alex
● Years of Experience: 10 ● Priorities: Timelines and tactics for getting audiences engaged ● Considerations:
o Can deviate from the vision when an exciting idea is offered that would increase audience engagement
o Tends to need to be reminded of what is feasible o Is supportive of other team members
Information Technology Representative: Brianna
● Years of Experience: 7 ● Priorities: Feasibility based on current tools available and budget ● Considerations:
o Tends to be very black-and-white in her thinking o Prefers to work independently o Is very busy and has many projects that need technical content experts going on at
once, which can make regular meeting attendance difficult (and can make the other representatives frustrated when their time is being wasted)
o Is exceptional at her role and has incredible expertise and experience that can be leveraged
Leadership Representative: Suzanne
● Years of Experience: 25 ● Priorities: Ensuring that the product is innovative and that its execution is timely and on or
under budget ● Considerations:
o Prefers “tried and true” methods over trying something new o Isn’t very familiar with digital marketing techniques o Can make other team members feel anxious to point out potential areas of conflict or
feasibility due to her position despite being very accepting of feedback Graphic Design Representative: Samir
● Years of Experience: 1 ● Priorities: Aesthetics ● Considerations:
o Tends to get carried away and forget about technical limitations o Is incredibly passionate about his work, and is always open to trying something new
Communications Representative: You
● Years of Experience: 2 ● Priorities: Upholding your personal brand as well as the organization’s brand and meeting the
needs of the target audience ● Considerations:
o Knows the audience and organizational branding very well
o Needs to work closely with marketing and graphic design partners, both of which tend to get carried away with possibilities and need to be reminded of what is on brand
