Teams

Developing "Analyze Your Team"

Examples for clarification are found on text pages indicated with parentheses in the information listed below.

Team: Oregon ducks college football team $(2023-2024)$

Book reference: MGMT $11$th Edition, by Chuck Williams. $($Chapter $9-10)$

Select and Research a Successful Team

Select a company management team, a sports team, or other type of team which you believe to be successful. A great choice would be a team where you are currently involved or have been involved in the past $...$ maybe in the workplace or a community activity.

Do background research to gather material you can use to analyze the team's workings.

Determine you have enough information to complete this task.

Explain Your Team's Norms

What standards were developed for team behavior

What were the influences?

What was the process to develop the standards?

Analyze Your Team's Cohesiveness

$,$ Did members attend meetings?

If not, what was done to change this behavior

Were scheduled meetings available to all members?

Should anything have been done to encourage more interaction?

In a business setting outside activities would be encouraged.

Create a Model Comparing Correct Team Size

Was it too small? Why?

Was it too large? Why?

What were the indicators of your too small or too large decision? $($ex$.$ too long to make decisions$-$ not enough imput$)$

Prepare an Outline Stating Your Team's Conflict Resolution

How were conflicts handled?

Were the goals and priorities made clear and direct?

What types of conflicts were involved?

Did you experience cognitive or affective conflict or both?

Design a Summary of Your Team's Behavior

Describe your teams behavior through the $6$ development stages

$,$ Summarize your team's success.