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7-2 Journal Leading Effective Groups and Teams

7-2 Journal Leading Effective Groups and Teams

Q Read the following articles about building and leading effective teams: • Building and Leading High Performance Teams • Building Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, but It's Just as Hard (Note: This article can only be accessed a limited number of times.) Managing groups and teams is an essential element of the leading facet of the P-O-L-C framework. As you read these articles, reflect on your experience working in groups and teams, and then address the following prompts: 1. Think about a positive experience when you worked in a group or team and identify the principles that were presented in the articles that were exhibited by your group or team. Explain how these principles helped the group or team succeed. 2. Think about a negative experience when you worked in a group or team and identify which principles from the articles were lacking. Explain how the lack of these principles led to poor performance of the group or team. If you were the manager of that group or team, how would you correct the issues that caused the poor performance? Consider the material from this module and in the articles. For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric document.

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2. Think about a negative experience when you worked in a group or team and identify which principles from the articles were lacking. Explain how the lack of these principles led to poor performance of the group or team. If you were the manager of that group or team, how would you correct the issues that caused the poor performance? Consider the material from this module and in the articles. For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric document. There had been a positive experience experienced by me when every team member of my team had participated equally and had shown similar levels of interest an initiative. There had been team-building skills shown by the team leader by ensuring that every team member would be appreciated. There had also been the team leader making the team members commit to the maximum level possible. There had been efficient comprehension among the team members for which conflict had been rare. Conflicts had been something which would only make the team members make each other realize their differences because of some specific reason. The communication among the team members had been effective because of the ways in which the team leader used to take initiative and ensure that every team member would interact with each other. The styles of working by all the team members had been synchronized appropriately by the team members to ensure that the working styles would work commonly for every team member. The purpose of every team member had been