I. Encouragement of Teamwork

Explain the strategy your team will use to encourage full participation and with it, prevent the common problem of "free ridership."  This classic team problem can adversely affect the quality of the work you produce and can lead to poor working relationships. Your strategy should include how the team will deal with poor or weak commitment.

Please note faculty may occasionally have to act when there is evidence that a member is not contributing a fair share to the work of the team. This includes submitting work to the team that is clearly not aligned with the team's stated and expected standards.

F. Summary of individual member strengths and weaknesses (self-assessed) e.g., good writer, editor, researcher, organizer, communicator, technology-adept, etc.) (e.g., limited team experience, tend to "take charge and want to be in control," writing weakness, inexperienced editor, etc.)

PROJECT (POST SPEPARTLY) 500 WORDS

For this project, you will work in a team where you will be creating a Narrated PowerPoint presentation on implementing virtual, multi-cultural, geographically distributed teams in your organization. You will prepare and conduct your presentation over the next 13 steps during which you will review data on types of teams, team roles, and team leadership.  Before you get started, read the full description of the final deliverable and the Steps to Completion.

• Identify potential sources of concern about having company operations in different locations around the world.
• Make and defend recommendations about the optimal approach to prepare for culturally-derived orientations and preferences among team members.
• Identify optimal information and communication technology (ICT) (team communication/collaborations) to facilitate communication, collaboration, and decision-making.
• Identify necessary training for virtual teams and consider the pros and cons of the CEO's preference to conduct the team training online rather than with a preliminary face-to-face meeting.
• Include a cost-benefit analysis that helps the CEO understand the pros and cons of her preference for virtual teams.