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Mgt 311 Week 3

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The collaborative efforts of Group 3, continued during Week 3. The primary tasks that were assigned including the Feeding the Hog activity, and the Phase 1 - Transformational Collaboration Proposal Plan. Kristian Stremberg served as the group leader for the week. In this role, Kristian provided a draft template for each assignment using Google Docs, allowing the group to examine each element of the assignment and collaborate effectively toward the final draft of each assignment. Early on the group decided that the leader for the week would create a draft template of the week’s assignment using Google Docs as was executed by Kristian. This allowed each member of the group to see the framework and direction of the assignment as a whole, rather than merely breaking it up into sections and then assembling it into a final form moment …show more content…

It was clear that our agreed upon norms placed a significant level of responsibility on the group leader. In this instance, Kristian served the role well. Due to the variance in time zones the use of Google Docs as a collaborative effort, was helpful to ensuring that each member was able to participate effectively. One member of our group, had difficulty accessing the internet on a regular basis and email the group portions of the assignment for the leader to incorporate into the draft. While this allowed the individual to contribute, it placed an additional burden on the leader to incorporate the suggestions into the final draft of the assignment. Additionally, during one assignment, the leader formatted the document early in the day and email it out prior to allowing everyone to contribute. This created confusion regarding whether the Google Doc or the emailed draft was the current working copy. Through email communication, this small obstacle was overcome and the group was successful over

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