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Unit 4 Assignment: Team Assignment – Virtual Team Best Practice

This Assignment will assess your knowledge based on the following Professional Competency

Outcome:

PC-1.1: Engage in a team setting with professional integrity and respect.

Virtual Team Success (DeRosa & Lepsinger, 2010) is based on a 2008 study conducted by the authors

involving 48 virtual teams in 16 organizations spanning several industries. As a result, the book is linked to

research and appropriate for graduate studies (Details of the study are provided in the appendix). Statistics

cited in many of the chapters are taken from this study.

At the same time, the authors have attempted to write the book for practitioners. It is written to be a go-to guide for managers and leaders. Each chapter stands alone. You can turn directly to a chapter that addresses an immediate need or interest. Note in the Introduction on page xxvii there is a quick reference guide for using the book. You can find a challenge or question of interest and turn directly to that chapter.

The book will be used at a text in GM500, GM501, GM502, and GM503. In each of these courses, there will be a Team Assignment in Unit 4. Sections from this book will be linked to that Unit 4 in those courses. The focus of the Assignment will be determined by the assigned unit reading; however, this book will be used as a part of the Unit 4 Team Introduction as a means of providing best practices and support for your virtual team. The book will prove to be a handy reference moving forward. Keep it accessible to quickly reference in the future for issues or problems you encounter with subsequent virtual teams.

Mapping:

GM500 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 3- Virtual Team Launch Kit

GM501 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 7- How to Facilitate High-Impact Virtual Meetings

GM502 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 4- What Differentiates Great Virtual Teams

GM503 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 5- How to Lead Virtual Teams

Team Exercise

Northouse (2016) at the end of every chapter gives the reader the opportunity to review each leadership theory with a review of Strengths and Criticisms. This Team Assignment will build upon Northouse’s (2016) review with a PowerPoint presentation debate. The proposition is: Be it resolved that the Situational Leadership approach is valid. Your professor will assign your team either the proposition affirmative or proposition negative.

You may choose to utilize this optional guideline. To access the optional guideline, select this link.

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Criteria

1. The presentation should be a minimum of 12 slides, not including the title and reference slide. Each

slide is required to also include a script of what would be said at that point in the presentation. The slides should be easy to read. The introduction slide should clearly articulate the purpose of the presentation and why it is of value.

2. The presentation should have a minimum of four academically credible sources from outside of the

course materials. Your sources should be follow proper APA format. (Review the APA formats found in the Kaplan W riting Center. To access the Kaplan Writing Center, select this link.).

3. Review the Rubric below to ensure all points have been captured in the Presentation.

4. Note that team participation will be assessed by the quality of each team member’s contribution to the

Assignment, and the completion of the Team Peer Evaluation Form. The Team Peer Evaluation Form is located in the Assignment page of your course.

Directions for Submitting your Assignment

1. Upon completing this Team Assignment, please delegate one member of the team to submit the

Assignment to the Unit 4 Assignment Dropbox by the end of Unit 4.

2. Individually, each member of the group completes the peer evaluation form and individually submits the

peer evaluation to the Unit 4 Assignment Dropbox by the end of Unit 4.

References

Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership theory and practice (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2012). The leadership challenge (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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GM502 Unit 4 Assignment: Team Project: Situational Leadership Debate

Criteria

Possible

Points

Points

Earned

Introduction

What is your thesis? What is your purpose in making this presentation?

2

Analysis Critical thinking for the side assigned, affirmative or negative.

24

Analysis Critical thinking applied against the opposing side.

14

Conclusion Review main points and summarize.

7

Notes Each slide has the script for that slide in the presentation. The notes explain

the slide. This is where the majority of your content will be assessed.

9

Composition Grammar, spelling, paragraph construction

5

Slide Appearance 20 word per slide limit

3

Slide Appearance Contrast

3

APA List all of your references according to APA format.

5

References Four academically credible resources from outside course materials.

8

Length 12 slides, not including the title or reference slides.

10

Team Participation Achievement of a well-synthesized presentation using contributions from

team participants to achieve a presentation that resembles the collective

talents of the group. Team member performed with integrity and respect

towards other participants of the team (peer evaluation). Points will be

deducted if the Peer Evaluation Form is not submitted to the Dropbox. Each

team member must document in the Team Discussion their individual

contributions to the project.

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LATE Paper Deduction: Due on Tuesday 0

Total Points Earned 100

Professional Competency Outcome

Engage in a team setting with professional integrity and respect.

No Progress 0

Team member demonstrates little, if any, understanding or progress toward achievement of this outcome.

Introductor y 1

Team member identifies elements of professional integrity, honesty, and respect, which can include demonstrating originality or mutual support for teammates.

Emergent

2

Team member is able to discuss some elements of professional integrity,

honesty, and respect and can reference the code of conduct for the team.

Practiced 3

Team member discusses and attempts to exhibit some elements of professional integrity, honesty, and respect and can reference the code of conduct for the

team, which can include demonstrating originality and mutual support for teammates.

Proficient

4

Team member shows professional integrity, honesty, and respect by honoring

the code of conduct for the team, which can include demonstrating originality, recognizing the contributions of team members, and mutual support for teammates.

Mastery

5

Team member engages in professional integrity with honesty and respect by

exemplifying the code of conduct for the team, which can include demonstrating originality, acknowledging contributions of team members, and mutual support for teammates.

Not Assessed

N/A

No work was received by the instructor.