COM140 All Modules Assignments latest 2018 may

Module 1 assignment

What are the reasons for poor team performance and how does each tie into team-building activities? Give an example from a current event where poor team performance was evident.

How do high-performing teams manage context and competencies of the team effectively? Break down and explain each.

How can high-performing teams implement change management skills?

Name a time in any one of your jobs when The Four C's would have helped to ease conflict. Be specific on how they would have helped.

Module 2 assignment

Explain the five reasons why context doesn’t always work. Give an example of a current event where context caused a problem.

What are the three most powerful factors in shaping the context for team development? Explain how have they played an important role in your work environment.

Explain the nine characteristics of an effective team leader. Then identify a team leader (CEO, president, owner, etc.) from a major news story during the last year and explain how he/she fits/doesn’t fit into these characteristics.

What is the Team-Building Cycle? Explain how you have used this cycle in your everyday life. Explain a time in your past when you now believe it would have been useful, or why you don’t think it would have helped.

Module 3 assignment

Identify a common problem you face at work. Then apply the steps of the problem-solving process to the problem and describe what you now believe the resolution should be.

Explain the options for action planning. Explain a situation where each of the five options was important.

Explain the appreciative inquiry approach to team building and describe a situation where you believe such an approach might be useful, and explain why.

What are types of feedback? Explain a time when you were required to provide feedback. Explain the situation, what kind of feedback was provided and how you provided it; whether or not it was well received; and what you might do differently next time, if anything, and why.

Module 4 assignment

What is the theory of conflicting personalities? Explain a time in your life when this theory was evident and how you resolved the problem at hand.

Explain what you consider to be the five most important of the nine elements in determining expectations in the role clarification exercise. Give examples of personal experiences on the job for each.

What are the five design options for an interteam-building program? Break each of them down, explaining how they can resolve a hypothetical work conflict.

Why is it important to follow up in order to maintain team effectiveness? Explain a personal experience where follow up worked or failed, and why.

Module 5 assignment

What are the two core categories that executives divide their core tasks into? How does this explain how they are as a team leader?

What is “psychological safety”? Give a personal example of how this has helped you develop or you believe would have helped you had it been there for you, and why.

What is the Balancing Act? Describe each characteristic of the “Discovery Driven” and the “Execution Driven” and how they relate to an event in your life.

What are the five traps that diverse teams face on their way to innovation success? If you were a team leader, how would you try to avoid them, and why?

Module 6 assignment

Explain an ad hoc committee, task force and project team. Identify a situation from current events that you believe would warrant the use of these kinds of teams. Explain the situation and why such a team would be a good choice or not.

Explain the major tasks facing temporary teams. How do they play a key role into building relationships and establishing a supportive emotional climate?

Explain the four steps to designing a temporary team. If you were a team leader, how would you effectively implement these steps? Using a hypothetical situation from a current news story, explain each step and its importance.

Step four of designing a temporary team is broken down into seven subsets involving questions. Explain each of the subset questions and how each of them plays a key role in implementing guidelines for a temporary team.

Module 7 assignment

Why are stereotypical expectations formed in cross-cultural groups? Explain a time (i.e., college course, job, volunteer opportunity) when you had to work with a cross-cultural group and the stereotypical expectations that were, or could have been, formed and why.

Why do cross-cultural teams have difficulty? Give an example when you had interpreted cultural perspective differently from another member of your team.

How do virtual teams differ from traditional teams? Choose a profession and explain how it can engage employees in both types of teams, and why both would be valuable.

What are the several approaches to improving a virtual team’s performance?

Module 8 assignment

List what you feel are the three most important of the 10 steps leaders follow in order for their teams to function effectively. Explain a personal experience where you had to implement one or more of the steps.

Summarize the 10 steps organization leaders should follow in order for their teams to function effectively. Identify one or two that you believe are most critical from your experience, and provide a concrete example to support your beliefs.

How can teams without clear boundaries work effectively to be successful? If you were part of a team without clear boundaries, how did you deal with the situation and were you were successful or not successful? If you have not been part of such a team, identify some situation from current events where such a team would be appropriate, and explain why such a team would be appropriate and what actions need to be taken to ensure success.

Explain how teams of the future will work. If you are to head a future team, what will you do to make sure the team succeeds and why?