For this assignment, you will assume the following role: Leader of a Virtual Team.
As the leader, you should be eager to design an A+ team. Earlier in this lesson, you learned the ten strategies needed for designing an A+ team, now you will apply those strategies to one of the scenarios that you selected from below. This fictional virtual team for which you are the leader is in the first stage of group development—forming—where orientation is needed.
Your neighborhood community has been struggling with vandalism and safety issues. A committee has been formed to address these issues. You have been asked to take the lead position. Your committee will be meeting through an online platform.
Writing Requirements The integrated template must be used Length: Minimum 500 – 1000 words (excludes title and reference pages) 1-inch margins Page numbers Double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman font Minimum of 1 outside source (in addition to the textbook/lesson) Title page References page (textbook, lesson, and outside source citation in APA format) Part 1: Introduction
In Part 1, you will write an introduction that could serve as a document to be read if you were actually leading this virtual team. It could be a team at work that is meeting through Zoom or WebEx. It could be a team in your neighborhood that meets through FaceTime or WhatsApp. It could be a committee that has been formed within an organization of which you are a part. In this page-long introduction, develop the elements of listening, speaking, being culturally sensitive, and managing conflict.
For Part 1: Introduction, please allow an outside source, the lesson, and the textbook to guide your creation of this introduction that needs to flow smoothly from 1A to 1D.
If this fictional team was formed and you were made the leader, what would you need to say in order for the following elements to be clearly addressed with the other team members?
Listening: The importance of listening as a member of the team. Speaking: How verbal communication should take place within the virtual meetings. Culturally Sensitive: The importance of being culturally sensitive while communicating in the team. Managing Conflict: How conflict will be managed during virtual meetings. So, what do you want to say? How will you start this team’s first virtual gathering so that the tone and expectations are established?
Part 2. Reflection
In your 2A to 2D reflection, you will have the opportunity to explain the reasoning you used for incorporating all four elements of listening, speaking, being culturally sensitive, and managing conflict in your Part 1 introduction.
You will write a full paragraph under each of the four headings seen below. Within each paragraph, you must include either a reference from an outside source, the lesson, or the textbook; all three must be used at least once, and all sections must have at least one source.) Please use all headings as found on the required template. 2A. Listening In this paragraph, you will explain how you addressed listening within the introduction. Share what guided your strategy and what source you used. 2B. Speaking In this second paragraph, you will explain how you addressed speaking within the introduction, what guided your strategy, and what source you used. 2C. Culturally Sensitive In this paragraph, you will explain how you addressed the need to be culturally sensitive in the introduction. Share what guided your strategy and what source you used. 2D. Managing Conflict In this final paragraph, you will explain how you addressed managing conflict in the introduction. Share what guided your strategy and what source you used.
