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We have all worked in a group or team at some point in our careers. A team is brought together to achieve a common goal. The team needs to have members who have complementary skills and who are committed to a common purpose to achieve performance goals. However, teams don’t move immediately toward performing, but instead evolve over time. There are five stages of group and team development:

1. Forming: Getting oriented and getting acquainted. High degree of uncertainty as members as they try to figure out who is in charge.
2. Storming: Personalities start to emerge, along with roles and conflicts within the group.
3. Norming: In the third stage conflicts are resolved, relationships developed, harmony and unity surfaces.
4. Performing: The members concentrate on solving problems and completing the assigned task.
5. Adjourning: Members prepare to disband. Some members may be reassigned, terminated from the group or the group is resolved.

Think about a time when you joined a new group—it could be at work, in a family setting or with a social group.

Assignment Content

1.     You have been asked to present at an upcoming retreat for local leaders who are interested in learning how ethics, culture, and diversity contribute to an effective organizational environment.

   Prepare a 13- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to support the primary topics you will discuss.

   Generate detailed speaker’s notes for each of your content slides. Your speaker’s notes should be written as if you were giving an actual presentation, so write well and communicate your information clearly. Justify your content with support from your textbook, peer-reviewed research, and other sources.

   Your presentation must include an appropriate cover slide, agenda slide, reference slide, and 10 to 12 content-specific slides.

   Review the Top Ten Slide Tips website to assist you in developing a quality, academically appropriate presentation.

   Format your citations and reference page according to APA guidelines.

. A self-assessment of your consulting skills based on your work and school experience. Outline what skills a consultant needs and how your skills match. Then free-form an essay while answering the following: What skills did you perform well? Which were you deficient? Were these the skills you assumed consultants needed before the course started? How have your views changed or remained the same about consulting? What would you have to do to improve your skills if you were to pursue a career in consulting? Take online tests/assessments to gain insight and provide evidence. Use examples and evidence from other classes and past work history to support your conclusions. Try to make it an honest assessment that can be useful to you in the future.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of both team-based performance management  and individual-based performance management. Suggest three pros and  three cons of each type of management. Justify your response.
• Next, choose three of the best practices for addressing the facets  of team-based performance management. Recommend a strategy for your  current or past organization to incorporate the identified practices.  Provide a rationale for your response.

Approach an important person in your life and request some help in learning more about yourself. Begin by explaining all twelve of the Gibb behaviors to your significant other, a coworker, relative, friend, etc. Be sure to give enough examples so that each category is clearly understood. When your explanation is complete and you’ve answered all of your partner’s questions, ask him or her to tell you which of the Gibb categories you use. Seek specific examples so that you are certain to understand the feedback fully. (Because you are requesting an evaluation, be prepared for a little defensiveness on your own part at this point.) Inform your partner that you are interested in discovering both the defense-arousing and the supportive behaviors you use and that you are sincerely interested in receiving a candid answer. 

Write a one page summary of what you learned: examples given by your partner, areas for improvement, areas you do well, how you felt as your partner was describing you, whether you agree with the evaluation, and what effect your use of the Gibb categories has on your personal and professional relationships, etc.