Professional Team Dynamics

COMPETENCIES

3007.1.1 : Team Development
The graduate selects an appropriate team structure for a project and proposes strategies for team development.
3007.1.2 : Team Roles and Interactions
The graduate examines the roles and interactions of group and team members.
3007.1.3 : Power and Influence
The graduate determines how power and influence can be used to achieve team objectives.
INTRODUCTION

Effective business leadership requires a mastery of group and team dynamics. In order to meet these needs, individuals must learn strategies for group communication, team building, and leadership to assist organizations in meeting goals. Organizational personnel must learn team strategies and appropriately apply them, as organizations increasingly operate with teams and work groups in both collocated and virtual settings.

In this task, you will write a paper that reviews key concepts related to team development, which will better prepare you for the teamwork required for Task 2.
REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Write a paper (suggested length of 3–5 pages) in which you analyze the factors that influence professional team dynamics and group development by doing the following:

1. Discuss at least three factors to consider when creating professional teams or work groups.
2. Discuss three practices that help build trust among team members.
3. Explain how team structure can impact team effectiveness.
4. Discuss at least two strategies for clarifying the purpose of a team.
5. Discuss how individuals in a team can use power or influence to achieve team objectives.
6. Discuss how the strengths of individual team members can be capitalized on to achieve team objectives.
7. Discuss three ways in which technology affects communication in virtual teams.

B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.