Team Building Site Goals & Strategies

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The casework for this week is defined as:

Creating a vision statement protocols. Understanding team management.

Due Date: Your team project is due on April 11th. Please make sure you e-mail your final assignment to us on or before this date. Every assignment builds on the training and provides a foundation for future modules, so it is important for the assignment to be completed and turned in on time.

Team Organization: In last weeks assignment your team learned about developing leaders. This week we'll add to this by helping the leader to organize the vision with the team.

Instructions:

1. Switch roles -You will need to assign a Leader, Manager, Communicator & Facilitator. All team members are responsible for sharing in the responsibilities on this project. Please document who was responsible for which roles and responsibilities completed:

2. In your organization your team has the responsibility for creating foundation organizational tools.

Your team is responsible for developing the key methods for establishing a vision statement for new teams. The team is responsible for identifying the practical steps a new team leader will use to create a vision statement. Within this document outline the practice and procedures to use to conduct a session.

The document needs to include key practices and values the team feels need to be included in a useful and practical vision for new or newly reorganized teams.

The communicator will need to submit this document to the instructors by the due date.

3. Please complete the following questions as a team and post your responses in the discussion area for this week.

? What skills are useful in helping a team create a vision statement?

? What practices and behaviors can get in the way of creating a useful vision statement?

? What are five things a leader can do to support the establishment and implementation of an effective vision statement?

? What problem solving techniques can be used to effectively manage teams and reduce conflict?

? What skills does a team leader need in order to manage effectively?

? What responsibilities do team members have to create an effective team?

E-mail us if you have any questions about this assignment.