The manager as Communicator

Instructions:  This is an assessment of your teamwork skills. First, choose a team assignment to analyze. It can be a group assignment from a previous course or workplace. If the latter, please describe briefly what your work group was doing so that I can follow along.

There are two steps to this assessment. First, evaluate your group's communication effectiveness by rating each of the following on a scale of 1 (Not Well) to 5 (Very Well). 

As a Group, How Well Did You (on a scale from 1 to 5):

• Define or clarify the task
  
• Exchange and share information
  
• Encourage expression of various points of view
  
• Evaluate and analyze data
  
• Use the best decision-making approach (consensus, majority rule, etc)
  
• Focus on tasks, not individuals
  
• Demonstrate respect for all
  
• Encourage feedback
  
• Encourage expression of opinion
  
• Build on others' ideas
  
• Ask for clarification of ideas
  
• Demonstrate equality
  
• Address disagreements or misunderstandings
  
• Stay on task
  

Second, answer these questions:

• Describe the top two strengths and two weaknesses of your team. Give examples of what your team did well and not well. Do not mention anyone by name.
  
• What was an area of strength that you brought to the group? An area where you could have improved?
• What type of decision-making method described in the textbook from last week did your group use?
• When you are in a group and you see some of the weakness that you mentioned above, what can you as a group member do?