Week 4
Project
Course Project: Team Building
The course project has major assignments that will be due in
Weeks 3 and 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete
them. Plan time to start the research and other work for those assignments
earlier than the week in which they are due.
Continue to use the organization you selected for your final
project in Week 1. This week, you are being placed on a ten-person virtual
team. You decide that prior to the team getting started on the project, you
want to do some research that will help you identify ways to make your virtual
team most effective. You may need to create hypothetical details about the team
and its purpose on the basis of what you know of the organization you selected
for the final project.
On the basis of your research, write a paper addressing the
following:
Assess the purpose of the team (i.e., what is the project it
has been assigned?) and the contribution of key members to team purpose.
Analyze four to six potential problems that virtual teams
typically face. Is the hypothetical team you described susceptible to these
problems? What specific problems might it develop?
Justify four to six viable solutions to make your team
effective, including why these solutions will work.
