Q Individual Team Reaction Paper 3 This paper presents a greater challenge than your previous individual team reaction papers since you are no longer just a member of a small team, you are now a member of the “group of a whole”! In this capacity, you will need to overcome alliances, prior small team culture and help to create an integrated large group capable of working together effectively as a team to meet the needs of the town. To provide you with sufficient opportunity to explore what is needed in this individual group of the whole reaction paper, your paper length should be eight to ten pages in length. Page length does NOT include the title page, table of contents or the References. Eight to ten pages is the length which would be required to provide an insightful analysis of what transpired in the formation and inner workings of this “group of the whole”. Use the same style guide as you used in previous individual team reaction papers. All papers will be double spaced and typewritten. Use the TAHOMA FONT for your paper. Papers will be submitted to Dr. Groves via his personal email account: drjerrygroves@comcast.net on Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 at 8:00 PM. This paper will count for 8% of your course grade. Not more than 10% of your paper should concentrate upon the decision which your “group of the whole” made regarding the town. Instead, your paper should concentrate mostly upon how the smaller teams entered into the third scenario in joining the group of the whole and how this larger group functioned as a team. Did your original small team maintain its identity as a team or did your identity merge into the larger group? Who made what initiative? (remember to name names of overall team members here). How were these initiatives received? Did everyone participate actively or was there a smaller team of doers and a larger group of observers? If the latter, how did the large group deal with this issue? Given the richness of the group dynamics which you are facing in Scenario 3, make sure that you don’t over-emphasize the content decision which the group of the whole made regarding the recommendation to solve the town’s problem. This information is already contained in the large group decision rationale paper. Your task is primarily to reflect back upon your small team, the other small teams, to observe and analyze the formation of the “group as a whole” and to assess this large group’s current stage of development. Since you have already had practice in the previous two individual team reaction papers, we expect this to be your best individual reaction paper. Therefore, our grading will be more demanding than in the previous two papers. You have an abundance of tools to aid you in your analysis. These tools include: (1) Tuckman’s stages of team development, (2) Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, (3) the Drexler Sibbett Team High Performance Model, (4) the High Performance Team Quiz, (5) the Task/Process role behaviors, (6) SWOT analysis, (7) the Pareto Principle, (8) the S curve and other tools as well. In this paper, you will provide a more focused and detailed analysis of: 1. roles and functions in the large group versus smaller teams 2. how leadership evolved and who played key leadership roles 3. communication and its impact on and within the group 4. decision making processes – what types were used, how effective were they, what could be done to improve them 5. stress and conflict in the group – did it occur?, if so, how was it handled?, was the end result positive or negative? 6. image of one small team versus other small teams in the larger group based upon analyzing the team rationale papers from scenario 1 and scenario 2. 7. how the smaller teams have adapted themselves to function effectively in a large group format. 8. how and what alliances were formed in the large group 9. how the group was organized 10. how work was distributed and coordinated within the large group structure 11. the overall climate which existed within the large group. Avoid just writing your paper as answers to a series of questions. This will not meet the requirements of this paper. This paper should be written as a paper which flows well and provides a thoughtful analysis of what transpired, how it impacted members within the group and what it meant for the large group’s continued interaction and viability as a group of the whole as you move towards Scenario #4. The expectation is that you will definitely incorporate tools and techniques learned in prior courses as part of your analysis. You will also link your observations of this group and its development back to what you learned in other classes and what you learned in readings. These should be incorporated and cited in your third individual team reaction paper. We also expect that you would use a variety of tools for analyzing the group’s dynamics rather than just provide a superficial description of what occurred. The deeper and more comprehensive the analysis, the better the evaluation of your paper. Remember the four levels of analysis. This paper should concentrate heavily on level 3 and level 4 analysis. Through reading your paper, we should be able to see the “group of the whole” and its subtle nuances through your eyes. We should be able to understand what is happening in the larger group at a deeper level. Remember that the Third Scenario (like previous scenarios) is a learning laboratory for group members. Leaders cannot lead if they don’t have insight into themselves and if they are unable to observe and analyze what is happening in teams in which they are members. For this reason, we expect you to be introspective in your analysis of yourself as a leader and also to be observant of the group’s process as a whole and its internal dynamics. We look forward to reading your third individual team reaction paper. This paper is due on: Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 at 8:00 PM EDT. This paper is worth 10% of your final grade.