Develop a 3 page plan for building a team. In your plan, explain the reasons for including specific functional areas on the team and describe the characteristics of effective team members. In addition, explain strategies for communication, delegating responsibility, making decisions, and handling conflict, as well as how the success of the team will be measured.

The ability to build and lead high-performing, collaborative teams is a critical skill in any size organization.

Show Less

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 3: Solve business problems using critical and creative thinking.
  • Explain the reasons for including specific functional areas in an organizational team.
  • Explain strategies for delegating responsibility within a team.
  • Explain how the success of a team is measured.
• Competency 4: Explain the skills and characteristics of an effective team.
  • Describe the characteristics of effective team members.
  • Explain how to effectively communicate team objectives to team members.
  • Describe strategies for handling conflict between members of a team.
• Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for the field of business.
  • Write coherently using correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
  • Use evidence to support a central idea in a consistently appropriate APA format and the MEAL planQuestions to Consider
• To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

  • If you were picking people for a business team in your organization, who would the best team players be?
  • What characteristics would you look for when selecting people to work on a team?
  • What type of team member are you?
• links to consider
• Bertland, A. (2011).
  The limits of workplace community: Jean-Luc Nancy and the possibility of teambuilding.
  Journal of Business Ethics,
  99(Supplement), 1–8.
• • Adams, S. (2009). The four stages of effective team-building. Training and Management Development Methods, 23(1), 317–320.
  • Chhay, R. V., & Kleiner, B. H. (2013). Effective communication in virtual teams. Industrial Management, 55(4), 28–30.
  • Compton, M. (2008). The “I” in collaboration. Women in Business, 60(2), 6–9.
  • Sikes, B., Gulbro, R. D., & Shonesy, L. (2010). Conflict in work teams: Problems and solutions. Allied Academies International Conference. Academy of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict. Proceedings, 15(1), 15–19.
  • Sohmen, V. S. (2013). Leadership and teamwork: Two sides of the same coin. Journal of Information Technology and Economic Development, 4(2), 1–18