ASSESSMENT 1: Identify, contact, and engage a real-life group or team that you can work with in two sessions to conduct a team development exercise. Then, write a team development plan and post-session summary based on your first completed team session.
Assessments 1 will allow you to:
• Demonstrate your ability to facilitate a team in building capacity towards becoming a learning organization.
• Analyze the use of specific change management learning disciplines in a team setting.
These two assessments will be based on a pair of team development sessions that you will facilitate with a real-world group of about five individuals.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Apply change management interventions.
- Describe a team development exercise used with a team, based on a relevant learning discipline.
- Describe a team development experience based on a relevant learning discipline.
- Explain lessons learned for chosen discipline and group dynamics.
Competency 2: Analyze applications of change management principles.
- Define change management and change management principles.
- Explain the learning disciplines of personal mastery, mental models, and shared vision.
- Explain the process used to select a learning discipline and the rationale for its selection.
- Explain successful and unsuccessful aspects of team development.
- Explain lessons learned for planned and unplanned team facilitation journeys.
Submit your first team exercise plan and post-session summary based on your completed team session.
Plan your first team exercise and write a team development plan for your first session. Your exercise for this session should be based on one of the following three disciplines identified by Senge:
• Personal mastery.
• Mental models.
• Shared vision.
Facilitate the first team development session, addressing the following:
• Define change management and the first three disciplines: personal mastery, mental models, and shared vision.
• Explain the learning discipline you have chosen and why it is important.
• Explain how you will use the organizational team development material (the exercise) during the session.
• Briefly introduce the problem or issue the team will work through, using the exercise.
• While conducting the exercise, take copious notes. Record the session, if possible.
Write a post-session summary based on the completed experience. Include the following in your assessment:
1. Define change management and change management principles.
2. Explain the three learning disciplines that you examined for this assessment: personal mastery, mental models, and shared vision.
3. Describe the organization of the team you have selected for your assessment and identify the sector of the organization (non-profit, government, business, or industry). If you will not be working with employees of an organization, please indicate the nature of your group.
4. Team exercise plan:
- Outline the schedule for your first team development session. Include the job titles or roles of the team members participating in the session. List the scheduled meeting date and time.
- Describe the problem or issue you chose as the intended purpose for your team development session.
- Identify the learning discipline that you chose to focus on for your team exercise. Explain the process used to select that learning discipline, the rationale for its selection, and the team development exercise that you used with your team.
Post-session summary:
- Describe your team development experience in a narrative format.
- Explain the successful and unsuccessful aspects of the team development exercise.
- Explain the lessons learned for team facilitation, including both planned and unplanned journeys that resulted.
- Explain the lessons learned for your chosen discipline, and its potential for helping a group examine itself, choose new direction, and commit to that direction.