Discussion 1

Offering narratives from your own experience, discuss a time when you have worked in a team and the team was successful. Describe the reasons for that success. Also, discuss an instance when you have worked in a team that failed. Explain what went wrong with specific examples.

Using the material in the text, provide two tips that you would use if faced with a failing team in the future.

Discussion 2

Discuss some of the benefits and challenges of virtual teams using the text to support your points. Page 219 in the text explains some cultural influences for global virtual teams. Our Kaplan classes have students from all over the globe and even if you have not been in a class with a team project, the discussions and Seminars incorporate some of these global variables. To discuss these elements, explain two of the variables in the chart and provide an example of when you encountered each in a Kaplan class.