TASS2C05

Please note: you MUST have received an email from the Leading Teams instructors with your assigned team and meet with them prior to completing this document and Task 2. If you have not received that email, please reach out to your Mentor to be added to the list for a team assignment.

Team Name: Team Ares

1. Identify a role for each team member. How will this structure allow the team to be more effective? The first two roles must be filled. Other roles could include facilitator, team members, note taker, timekeeper, and reviewer/publisher. (Note: There must be a team leader as well as someone designated to compile (a compiler) the multimedia presentation in addition to the remaining roles listed above. )

2. Identify at least three team goals.

Note: These goals should be based on concepts from the course that your team will apply while working together over the next few weeks. Avoid using aspects from your timeline.

Ensure regular and consistent communication through various communication channels to enhance collaboration, synergy, and foster an environment of trust and consensus.

Establish and meet project deadlines and due dates to ensure timely delivery

of project. This will be accomplished through collaboration and facilitation.

Establish a collaborative decision-making environment through open dialogue, constructive feedback, and fostering an environment of trust and empathy.

3. Determine the timeline you will follow during your presentation development. Provide the detailed timeline here, with specific due dates for completion of steps the team will take toward completion, as well as the actual completion date.

Timeline: Dec 10th to 23rd, 2025.

Presentation initial submissions to team: Dec 17th, 2025

Team initial review and feedback: Dec 19th, 2025

Team Final Edit: Dec 21st, 2025

Submission for Grading / Completion: Dec 23rd, 2025

4. Determine the team decision-making policy to be implemented (by consensus? by majority vote?).

Consensus: due to the smaller scale of Team Ares, we have decided to leverage a consensus-based decision making policy. This will allow us to have a voice in the best method of completion for the project.

5. Create a plan for ongoing communication and file sharing. ( What will be the primary method for communication? How will urgent issues be communicated to the team? How often will the team meet or communicate each week? Etc. )

Team Meetings: Dec 14th & 21st @ 5:00pm, Dec 16th & 18th @ 7:00pm (spans two weeks – condensed due to the Christmas holiday)

Ongoing Communication and File Sharing: Microsoft Teams

Urgent Issues: Text message or phone calls

6. Create a conflict management strategy that will be implemented during the presentation development.

Group discussion and compromise allowing everyone to share their ideas and discuss differences of opinion. We will then leverage a consensus to apply a course of action.

Each team member must sign this contract by typing their name in the table provided below. By signing this contract each team member agrees: 1) to abide by the team decisions reflected in this contract; and 2) to respect the privacy of team members by preventing the disclosure of the personal information contained in this contract, or any other work created by the team, to any non-team member except WGU staff.

The team leader will submit the completed charter to the Leading Teams course mentor for review and approval by the end of Week One to: [email protected] .

Rubric

A:Team Charter

Competent

The candidate provides the “Team Charter,” with sufficient detail, including all of the given points.

B1:Section Creation

Competent

The candidate provides the section(s) of the multimedia presentation, with sufficient detail, to which the candidate was assigned.

B2:Presenter Notes

Competent

The candidate provides presenter notes, with sufficient detail, to clearly explain the ideas addressed in the candidate’s assigned slides.

B3:Team Multimedia Presentation

Competent

The candidate provides the entire team multimedia presentation and presenter notes, including the given points, with sufficient detail.

C1:Role Functions

Competent

The candidate provides a logical explanation, with sufficient detail, of what functions each individual performed in the assigned team roles.

C1a:Team Member Strength

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of how a strength of 1 team member affected the team.

C1b:Team Member Weakness

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of how a weakness of 1 team member affected the team.

C1bi:Weakness Mitigation

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of how to mitigate the weakness identified in part C1b.

C2:Team Communication

Competent

The candidate provides a logical evaluation, with sufficient detail, of the team’s communication practices.

C2a:Individual Feedback

Competent

The candidate provides a reasonable description, with sufficient detail, of how the team solicited individual feedback and communicated among team members.

C3:Building Collaboration

Competent

The candidate provides a logical evaluation, with sufficient detail, of how the team built collaboration.

C4:Managing Conflicts

Competent

The candidate provides a logical evaluation, with sufficient detail, of how the team managed or planned to manage conflicts.

C5:Decision-Making Process

Competent

The candidate provides a logical explanation, with sufficient detail, of the team’s decision-making process.

C6:Stages of Team Development

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of the various stages of team development as it relates to what the candidate’s team experienced.

C7:Power Bases and Influence

Competent

The candidate provides a logical explanation, with sufficient detail, of how team members used power bases and influence to achieve team objectives.

C8:Team Strengths and Weaknesses

Competent

The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of at least 2 strengths and at least 2 weaknesses of the team as a whole.

C8a:Overall Performance Improvement

Competent

The candidate provides an appropriate recommendation of at least 2 ways the team could have improved its overall performance.

C8ai:Justification of Improvement Recommendations

Competent

The candidate provides a logical justification, with sufficient support, of the candidate’s recommendation of 2 ways the team could have improved its overall performance.

D: 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.

E: Professional Communication

Competent

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

Please note: you MUST have received an email from the Leading Teams instructors with your assigned team and meet with them prior to completing this document and Task 2. If you have not received that email, please reach out to your Mentor to be added to the list for a team assignment.

Team Name: Team Ares

1. Identify a role for each team member. How will this structure allow the team to be more effective? The first two roles must be filled. Other roles could include facilitator, team members, note taker, timekeeper, and reviewer/publisher. (Note: There must be a team leader as well as someone designated to compile (a compiler) the multimedia presentation in addition to the remaining roles listed above. )

2. Identify at least three team goals.

Note: These goals should be based on concepts from the course that your team will apply while working together over the next few weeks. Avoid using aspects from your timeline.

Ensure regular and consistent communication through various communication channels to enhance collaboration, synergy, and foster an environment of trust and consensus.

Establish and meet project deadlines and due dates to ensure timely delivery

of project. This will be accomplished through collaboration and facilitation.

Establish a collaborative decision-making environment through open dialogue, constructive feedback, and fostering an environment of trust and empathy.

3. Determine the timeline you will follow during your presentation development. Provide the detailed timeline here, with specific due dates for completion of steps the team will take toward completion, as well as the actual completion date.

Timeline: Dec 10th to 23rd, 2025.

Presentation initial submissions to team: Dec 17th, 2025

Team initial review and feedback: Dec 19th, 2025

Team Final Edit: Dec 21st, 2025

Submission for Grading / Completion: Dec 23rd, 2025

4. Determine the team decision-making policy to be implemented (by consensus? by majority vote?).

Consensus: due to the smaller scale of Team Ares, we have decided to leverage a consensus-based decision making policy. This will allow us to have a voice in the best method of completion for the project.

5. Create a plan for ongoing communication and file sharing. ( What will be the primary method for communication? How will urgent issues be communicated to the team? How often will the team meet or communicate each week? Etc. )

Team Meetings: Dec 14th & 21st @ 5:00pm, Dec 16th & 18th @ 7:00pm (spans two weeks – condensed due to the Christmas holiday)

Ongoing Communication and File Sharing: Microsoft Teams

Urgent Issues: Text message or phone calls

6. Create a conflict management strategy that will be implemented during the presentation development.

Group discussion and compromise allowing everyone to share their ideas and discuss differences of opinion. We will then leverage a consensus to apply a course of action.

Each team member must sign this contract by typing their name in the table provided below. By signing this contract each team member agrees: 1) to abide by the team decisions reflected in this contract; and 2) to respect the privacy of team members by preventing the disclosure of the personal information contained in this contract, or any other work created by the team, to any non-team member except WGU staff.

The team leader will submit the completed charter to the Leading Teams course mentor for review and approval by the end of Week One to: [email protected] .