Biology - Physiology Week two: Assignment one, Team Paper Instructions 3-5 pages

Week two: Assignment one, Team Paper Instructions 3-5 pages

Team paper

Write a paper about the best practices for managing groups and leading teams to influences team effectiveness including establishing a shared vision.

· Focus on evidence-based approaches for leadership behaviors and effective communication.

· Examine behaviors amongst team members and team leaders that reflect professionalism and employs organizational integrity for an inspired goal.

· Your paper should include some of the following concepts: conflict negotiation and resolution, coaching and motivating others, facilitating discussion, cooperation, consensus-building, building team spirit and delegation. Communication skills should be included such as demonstrating the ability to interpret the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others, especially those who may represent diverse backgrounds and very different worldviews. Use at least three scholarly references, excluding the text. Use APA format. The paper should be approx., 3-5 pgs., but no less than 3 pages. Total points=20

Corresponding PLOs:

· #2 Effectively communicate in all forms of expression to relate facts, simplify complexity, customize, and create persuasive arguments for the target audience to improve organizational function and/or to transform organizational vision for all stakeholders.

· #7 Demonstrate leadership excellence through abilities and behaviors, which include establishing a vision and inspiring and supporting others to work towards that shared vision and related goals.

· #10 Employ organizational integrity by examining organizational behavior for honesty and fair dealing with all constituencies, including employees and community stakeholders.

· #11 Exercise professional behaviors consistent with self-awareness, accountability, continuous learning, and ethical and social responsibility for the greater good.

Corresponding Competencies:

· HS1: Apply management theories, approaches, and core functions to routine operations and to current and emerging issues in the health care environment.

· HS5: Lead groups of people toward shared visions and goals, from forming a team that possesses balanced capabilities, to setting its mission, values, and norms, and holding team members accountable individually and as a group for results; practice: (a) conflict negotiation and resolution, (b) coaching and motivating others, (c) facilitating discussion, cooperation, (d) consensus-building, (e) building team spirit and (f) delegation.

· C1: Demonstrate formal and informal communication using traditional and contemporary modalities to convey messages that are clear and cogent for the target audience, which includes all forms of expression and technology that may be employed to reach the audience.

· C2: Demonstrate the ability to accurately hear and understand the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others, especially those who may represent diverse backgrounds and very different worldviews. Levels of proficiency relate to the increasing complexity and depth of understanding, as well as openness to perspectives very different from one’s own.

· C3: Make complex ideas or situations clearer, simpler, and/or more understandable (e.g., re-framing the problem, use of analogy); assemble ideas, issues, and observations into a clear and useful explanation; restate existing observations or knowledge in a simpler fashion; translate intricate technical information into terms everyone can understand; “boil down” information.

	Excellent	Developed	Needs Improvement	Significantly Underdeveloped	Non-Performance
Team Effectiveness Paper PLOs 7, 10, 11; HS 1, 5 11 C1, C2,	Paper addresses the best practices to manage and lead a team for optimal team effectiveness. It focuses on team formation, and how the work environment is structured to facilitate a work outcome; yet create individual and group team learning for improved/or optimal team performance. It includes team leader behavior and addresses common issues such as group member conflict. Factors are supported by the literature and not personal experience.	The paper addresses critical elements of team effectiveness that is supported and well-aligned by the literature cited. However, may fail to include isolated common issues.	The discussion is missing a few key elements of team effectiveness and or fails to include leader and team behaviors to address conflict. The literature may not be well aligned or there are inferences of personal experience to support ideas without support from the literature.	The team effectiveness described is missing several key elements and it is not based on sound practices from the literature. It may refer to personal experience and unsubstantiated elements. It is significantly underdeveloped.	The team effectiveness discussion does not meet the assignment requirements.
10 Points	10-9 Points	9-8 Points	8-6 Points	6-1 Points	0 Points
Paper is easily understood using appropriate gramma PLO2 C1, C3.	Paper is easily understood with using appropriate grammar.	Paper is easily understood with minor clarity issues and minimal grammar errors.	Paper is readable but grammar is incorrect in several sentences.	The paper is difficult to understand with grammar errors throughout the paper.	Grammar is inconsistent with acceptable paper requirements and readability.
5 Points	5-4 Points	4-3 Points	3-2 Points	2-1 Points	0 Points
Paper uses at least three scholarly peer-reviewed references excluding the textbook and APA format is used throughout the text of the paper with ref list. HS1	Paper uses at least three scholarly references with citations and a reference list using APA format. The textbook is not included in the three.	Paper uses at least three scholarly references excluding the text but has minor errors in APA format.	May not use three references and/or scholarly references are not used, but dot coms or dot orgs. Multiple errors in APA format noted.	Three scholarly references are not used, and multiple citations are incorrect including reference list format. Significant errors are noted.	Scholarly reference use and/or APA format is unacceptable. Does not meet the assignment requirements.
3 Points	3	2.5 -2.0 Points	2-1.5 Points	1.5-1 Points	0 Points
The paper is at least 2.5 to 3.0 pages long. PLO2	The paper is at least 2.5 to 3.0 pages long excluding title page and ref list.	Page length is at least 2 pages long excluding title page and ref list.	Page length is at least 1 plus 2/3 pages excluding title page and ref list.	Page length is at least 1 page excluding title page and ref list. Significant non-compliance with requirements.	Page length is unacceptable to meet the assignment’s requirements.
2 Points	2 Points	1.5 Points	1 Point	.5 Points	0 Points
TOTAL=20

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