Problem Framing – The MGA team is currently suffering from organizational mismanagement and numerous internal conflicts which have prohibited the group from making meaningful strides towards achieving its goal of submitting a viable proposal to the upcoming business plan competition. In order to address these shortcomings, the following proposals seek to address the structural problems within the group and attempt to get it back on track to achieve the shared goal the group members share.
Managing Personal/Team Conflicts
Given the differing educational and professional backgrounds of the team members, certain personality conflicts have arisen which are hurting team unity and practical discourse in the decision-making process.
• Team members need to spend some time discussing each team member’s background and experience. From this, the team can use similarities between different team members to create a sort of bonding between the team.
• Disagreement between members needs to be aired in the open and team members must work out differences.
• What does success look like to each team member in terms of the group and for themselves? Establish what each member wants to get out of the project and what they feel they can be contribute.
Identify and Commit to Team Norms
Committing to developing and maintaining team norms will be essential to providing structure to meetings and ensuring that the group’s decisions are made with the best information available rather than allowing dominant personalities or separate agendas to determine their action. Norms will assist in creating a process where all members have the opportunity and comfort sharing perspectives and challenging the ideas of others. This will increase the effectiveness of their partnership and maximize the diversity of knowledge.
• All members agree to attend meetings, on time, bringing their ideas