Group and team development Part 1- Group development All the parties involved; The Woodson

The course project aims at providing you an opportunity to implement your learning about group dynamics.

Group development can be defined as a group of people work together. Group members are interdependent. In other words, they build as a team to accomplish goals. Again, it is known as team building. It is frameworks to recognize behavioral patterns of team and understand causes of changes. Furthermore, group development helps team to increase productivity. There are six different stages of group development such as formation of group, initial stage, transition stage, working stage, final stage and follow-up stage.

Knowing and understanding the five stages of group development is extremely important. The first step is called Forming. Forming is when the group first meet up and is getting to know each other. During the forming stage members usually introduce themselves and give a brief introduction about their likes dislikes and interest. The members usually discuss what role each person will perform, by now the group should have a group leader who should be in attendance making sure the meeting is running smoothly. The second stage is called storming, storming is when the group comes together and bring their ideas to the table. Most groups don't get passed this stage because there tend to be arguments when it comes to deciding which direction the group

The importance of a budget is critical to operate the school. However, the budget is based on the types of programs that the school has been acknowledged to offer. Deer Park Elementary school offers several programs under the federal government, however, the Targeted Assistance Program has been the program identified in this paper as the priority program to review. Collaboration strategies promote multiple perspectives from various stakeholders to view different aspects of components involved. Therefore, it is significant that leadership is strong and involves collaboration to handle funds strategically within a budget. This paper gives an overview of collaboration strategies collected, analyzed, and interpreted that conveys multiple perspectives from four stakeholder groups on both the sufficiency and efficiency of funds concerning the budget of the Targeted Assistance Program at Deer Park Elementary.

According to Cummings and Worley (1997) there is a five-phase process for managing change, including: motivating change, creating vision, developing political support, managing the transition, and sustaining momentum. Motivating change involves creating a work environment that embraces change and developing approaches to overcome any resistance to change. The general guidelines include: enlightening members of the organization about the need for change, expressing the current status of the organization and where it should be in the future, and developing realistic approaches to change.

According to the article “Making Shared Leadership Work,” “shared leadership should also extend beyond the school walls. Parents, students, and community members provide important perspectives, particularly in discussing major school initiatives. They can also offer unique and valuable technical assistance…” If the high school council does not take into account parents and community members they are doing a grave disservice to their building and district. Parents ultimately know their own child best and would offer rich insight into the schools due to this factor. Furthermore, bringing the community into the schools benefits the entire city rather than just focusing on the high school as a separate entity removed from the rest of the surrounding

“Helpful Tips for Collaboration in Group Work” provides an excellent template of what it looks like to be a part of something greater than one’s self. It articulates in writing things that I have discovered oftentimes through the hard way with things going wrong in group projects. Like many, I share the frustrations of doing 90% of the work in a group project, in my case it was building a lego robot in the 6th grade. My partner and I had a blast dreaming up the possibility of bringing a robot to class for a project about industrial technology, but that same passion was not transferred to the workload. I relate to being the domineering partner also, through many cultural presentation in the 9th grade where I insisted on controlling the direction of everything the group was doing. If my group members had only known how to use humor and directness as described in this article the group as a whole would of been much more productive. I discovered the importance of setting clear attendance expectations when members of the leadership team I was a part of did not consistently show up, and we did not know what to do because there were

Outside of the study of leadership, the words “group” and “team” are often synonymous. When applying these words to the study of Full Range Leadership Development, these two words fall on opposite ends of the synergy spectrum. Sosik and Jung (2010) explain that in a group, individuals are focused in a self-centered manner; the completion of their work is focused heavily on the good of the individual and there is not much consideration for how their work impacts the overall performance of the group (p. 305).

1. The purpose of the meeting was a community mental health agency the social workers were meeting with co-workers to discuss goals of a possible community outreach.

Being successful is always challenging as part of a group or team. There are number of reasons why this is challenging, such as a number of people involved and everyone’s cooperation, agreement, commitments, contribution, combined effort and shared values are required (McClean & Collins, 2011). Group work demands common goals and agreements, mutual understanding, more discussion which is sometime hard to manage to some extent (Détienne, 2006). Recently, I got the opportunity to become a part of MGT210 assessment group of four members. Personally, I feel that our group work was successful to some extent. We managed to develop relationship which is a criteria that indicates successful group work (Ismail Al-Alawi, Yousif Al-Marzooqi, & Fraidoon

The introduction of a new member (Jack) into the team implies that the team had to begin at the earlier stages of developing a team and build a new relationship with the individual within a short period. The addition of Jack Swigert into the team implies that the team members had to work under pressure to build an effective team that would perform effectively. The introduction of a new member affected the team in there was poor communication as seen when Jack makes a mistake in the simulator. There was a moment of silence between the team members indicating that it was difficult for the team to cope with a new member. This change could have been managed differently by ensuring that the members of the crew together with their substitutes worked and trained together before the mission in order to ensure effective team development. This would be effective because the team members would have an opportunity to understand the personalities about each other and eliminate the element of poor communication and interaction when new members are introduced to the team.

Recently we had a group project in our Human Relations class, it was a challenge because we were all new with each other and we had to plan everything together and learn each other’s styles in a short amount of time. We had a lot of respect for each other because we listened to what everyone had to say and made efforts to work around the ideas. Watching this Teamwork video really gives us an open idea on what a group should be and how we should treat one another. Being open is a major key in teamwork because everyone needs to communicate, and express their emotions to better our team and being honest. Sometimes maybe we didn’t agree with a teammate’s idea and that’s normal, however we expressed our reasoning’s or tried to understand the idea better. It is not healthy to be rude and talk bad about each other to other people, everyone is just going to lose trust.

I would say that my role on the team really consisted of getting our group to think creatively. There were many times where our group would have brainstorming sessions before we would begin a phase. Many times, I found myself leading our group brainstorming sessions. I would say that this helped our team think of new ideas or concepts that we hadn’t thought of before. This role remained consistent throughout the process.

Teams are often depicted as a group of people sharing leadership of and working together on a specific project, whereas a group (but not a team) consists of individuals who work independently and are led by a strong, focused individual (Erofeev, Glazer, & Ivanitskaya, 2009). In the health care organization, it is important to have a group of people working together as a well a team. Each person individually need to fully understand what his or her role is in a group or team, if not there will be conflicts.

How do these strategies apply to a team that you are or have been a participating member?