Team Building Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Competency Name: Team Building Competency Statement: Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of team dynamics to organizational effectiveness, productivity, and communication within an organization. Final Assessment Title: Team Building Reflection Paper Competency Objectives: 1. Identify and explain the stages of team development. 2. Compare and contrast the elements in teams and in workgroups, including virtual teams. 3. Identify and discuss which is the better choice, teams or workgroups, within an organization (i.e., benefits and challenges of each). 4. Identify and develop strategies that a team can use to improve communication, trust, and collaboration. 5. Identify and employ appropriate methods for conflict resolution in an organization. 6. Identify and initiate effective methods of evaluating and rewarding team success. Program Learning Outcome(s): N/A Institutional Learning Outcome(s): N/A Purpose of this Assessment The purpose of this Summative Assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of team building by analyzing one of the given team-building activities (from Appendix A) for a group of your choosing. You may select a group where you work or volunteer, or another type of group of which you are a member. After you lead the activity, you will write a reflection paper that details and describes the dynamics present during that session. Examples of groups you might consider using for this assignment include the following: • Church groups • Sports teams • Special projects for school • Neighborhood groups or organizations • Ad-hoc committees • Board memberships • Clubs Items Required for Submission The item required for submission is an 8-12 page paper. Step ONE: Preparation Choose a team or group for conducting a team building activity with five to seven people. For this assignment you will be discussing your roles as BOTH participant and observer in this situation, so be 1 Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Team Building Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric sure to review the suggested criteria for completing this assignment and take a few notes during the meeting to help you reflect back on the dynamics. • Choose the team building • Choose the team building activity you would like to use. • Research at least five scholarly references on team building and include them as in-text citations and as a separate reference page. Step TWO: Write Your Paper Your paper must include the following: 1. Introduction • Team/Group Background (include some background about the team and team demographic information) • Type of Team/Group – Describe and explain why these people are more like a team or a group • Formal/Informal roles in the team/group • Description of team building activity (include where and when it occurred and any special circumstances) 2. Stages of Team Development – Using the five stages of team building, describe how your team progressed through the various stages using your references to support your observations. • What stages did the team go through? • What stage did the team get stuck in? Why? • How did the team move through the different stages? 3. Characteristics of the team – Using the five key characteristics of a team, give examples from your team building activity to show the degree to which the characteristics appeared, using your references to support your observations 4. Barriers – Identify barriers that emerged during the team building activity and how the group managed those barriers, using your references to support your observations. What was the effect of the barriers on the end result? 5. Strengths and Weakness of the team – explain the levels of commitment, cohesion, and performance and the interaction between them as it related to your team. 6. Conclusion and Recommendations – Evaluate the activity overall, including an explanation of what worked well and what would you have done differently for this particular activity. What did you learn about team building from doing this particular activity? Make at least three recommendations for this group for ways to improve their teamwork in general, not just for this particular activity. Step THREE: Complete Checklist for Submission Before you submit your work, check to see if you have met the criteria noted below. Did you: Thoroughly describe all aspects of the team and team building activity? 2 Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Team Building Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Demonstrate sophisticated understanding of the major team building theories and concepts related to the stages of team development, and apply them to your chosen team building activity? Comprehensively discuss significant connections between aspects of the team building activity and commitment, cohesion, and performance? Comprehensively discuss significant barriers of the teamwork building activity, using relevant research and data to offer a comprehensive application of team building theories? Make thoughtful and reflective conclusions that summarize the essential team building activity details? Accurately and thoroughly use highly relevant and well-chosen research and data to offer a meaningful application of team building theories? Present detailed, realistic and appropriate recommendations, clearly supported by the major theories and concepts? Make sure that your paper is logical, well-written, and of the required length? Check to see that spelling, grammar, and punctuation are accurate? Follow APA formatting
