Answer the following 3 questions on building Team Cohesiveness:

How to Build Team Cohesiveness

Schedule social time together.

Get agreement on group goals.

Focus attention on competition with outside groups.

Reward members for group results (cooperative rather than competitive rewards).

Reduce contact with other groups.

Create a sense of performance “crisis.”

The opposite steps may be taken to reduce the cohesiveness of a group. Such actions may become necessary when members of a highly cohesive group are operating with negative performance norms and the efforts to change these norms have failed.

1. Why is building team cohesiveness important?

(Present any background or facts that will enable the reader to clearly understand this.)

2. Tell how you have or how you see yourself applying the Tool Kit. You must be specific and give details as to how you did/would apply it and what the results were/could be. Give specific examples of how you have seen this issues play out in your work life. (or personal life where appropriate.)

3. Thinking about this Tool Kit, write a well-thought out reflective statement about how this assignment could influence your personal, academic, and professional leadership and managerial development. In other words, “how will you apply it going forward/”