...Case Study for Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation. The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency is teaming up with the public school system in Washington D.C. to improve student outcomes. There’s ample room for improvement. The schools have problems with truancy, low student performance, and crime. New staff quickly burn out as their initial enthusiasm for helping students is blunted by the harsh realities they encounter in the classroom. Turnover among new teachers is very high, and many of the best and brightest are the most likely to leave for schools that aren’t as troubled. The Stags of Group Development for the Woodsom foundation in building a cohesive coalition The First Stage is bringing the new plan in development is forming an executive development committee or team with the help of Human Resource to choose the right candidates for the jobs. The Second Stage will be Storming which gives conflict towards each and individual group and creates doubts also each group have its own interests and some cases they can directly opposed to one another. For this stage they have to be work as a team and leave all the intensive and doubtful behavior outside of the team. Then only this stage work The Third Stage will be Norming in this for the achieving the certain purpose the goals have set up to start the performance and the team has learn how to set aside your doubts and how to learn work productively together. Who will do what work and...
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...Building a Coalition Case Study In building a cohesive coalition, there is a five stage model that is a useful guide in understanding group development. The five stage development model consists of forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The forming stage in the five stage development model consists of a lot of uncertainty about the groups, purpose, structure, and leadership. The storming stage of the five stage development model deals with conflict and identifying who will lead the group. The norming stage of the five stage development model gives the group structure, with guidelines set for the behavior of each member. The performing stage is the fourth stage in the development model. In this stage, the group is completely structured and each member is performing their task at hand. The adjourning stage is the final stage in the development model, in which short term committees and other staff complete unfinished activities of the group as they prepare to dismiss. The Woodson Foundation is now in the storming stage. The school district is concerned about Woodson Foundation having too much control. The school system is concerned about jeopardizing their procedures and protocols of the faculty and staff for the procedures of Woodson Foundation. In order for Woodson Foundation to create a coalition with the school system I think following the five stage model would be very beneficial. The Woodson Foundation have to reassure the school system they are not trying...
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...Case Study – Building a Coalition Group Development Stages of group development: Forming: The group is just created, everything is new, and people just get to know each other. Strong leadership is the key as people might be hesitant to voice their opinion at this stage. Limits are tested – what can and can’t be done and said. Storming: At this stage, team members already know each other. Everyone knows each other opinions and stands. Everyone sees differences between team members and is not afraid to argue and disagree. Unofficial leaders are being identified at this point as well as followers. Most of the conflicts arise at this stage. Norming: This is the stage when rules are established and most of the differences settled in some sort of the compromise. Each team member finds his role within the team and leader takes less of an active position so the team can work together. Performing: At this stage, motivation is at its peak as team members have the common sense of purpose and direction. Everyone learned how to work together as a team, who is better at performing with tasks and what to do when somebody is falling behind. Leadership takes more of the delegating role. Adjourning: This stage takes place after the project completed. Team members often want to know where to go from here and what is the next goal or project. The stage described in the study is the forming stage of the team development. Not all the group members are identified, not everyone knows each...
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...Building A Coalition Group Development According to Bruce Tuckman's model of group development, the stages include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. A group starts in the forming position where the ground rules are established and the team members hardly know each other. As it moves to the storming stage, the members of the group are still individualized and resist any form of leadership. The storming stage is where it is likely for the group to get stuck. With the help of a good boss, the norming stage will come next in which the concept of teamwork is accepted. Once that is mastered, the performing stage comes into play in which the team continues to work in a good trusting atmosphere to complete their task. Finally, a reflection is made over the team's accomplishments and that is to be known as the adjourning stage. In the case study Building a Coalition, the members of the group are currently in the forming stage of their group development. This being because they have yet to identify exactly what three members are going to be included in the final team. Once their team members are set that will get the ball rolling to proceed to the next stage, storming. The Woodson Foundation could have benefited from understanding the stages of group development in that it could have acted as an effective resource that has proper guidelines in place to know what it takes to form a highly functioning team. From the information presented in the article, it is...
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...1 Running head: BUILDING A COALITION DeVry University Keller Graduate School of Management Pomona, California (CASE STUDY) BUILDING A COALITION By PRIYANKA VOHRA HRM – 591 Leadership and organizational behavior Professor: Ifeanyi Ugboaja (Submission date: 05/28/2016) BUIDLING A COALITION 2 Introduction: Case Study Analysis on Building a Coalition In order for a project to be successful in an organization it should form a diverse team to head it. Incorporating diversity within the team will encourage creativity and innovation into the formation of the processes and solutions that result in the outcome of the project. Each team member will be able to change and grow by drawing from the different experiences, backgrounds and skills from each individual. The team needs to have a process in place to communicate and collaborate openly and listen to all member’s views, ideas and goals. Diverse work teams will almost always have a level of conflict within them. Respecting each other’s different views and experiences and recognizing that they have been brought together because of a common goal can result in a more effective resolution process.” Regardless of the composition of the group, differences can be leveraged to achieve superior performance.” (Robbins & Judge, 2012 p.58). 3 BUIDLING A COALITION Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation and Washington D.C. public schools are teaming together to form a new after school program...
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...Case Study: Building a Coalition MGMT591 First of all, in order to successfully build a coalition for Woodson Foundation, we should be aware of the necessary stags of group development that we are going to go over: The first stage is Forming, which is bringing the new plan in development by creating an executive team with the assistance of Human Resources to select the correct candidates for the new occupations available. The second period is Storming, which brings conflict among the members of the group, principally because each representative of the groups has his or her particular interests. To go through this phase, they have to think as a team without all the doubtful behavior The third phase will be Norming. To succeed here, they should set their common goal up to begin the performance, feel more comfortable with the rest of the team, and work efficiently together. An important issue to take into account here is that there has to be someone who leads that work assuming the role of leader. The following stage is Performing. This stage will start when the team starts to perform together to achieve the objective set up by the association. Last but not least, the Adjourning stage starts when the team members feel a sense of loss and their enthusiasm decay because the team's task is approaching to the end. Because of this phase, it is imperative to distinguish the team members for their achievements and exult the team's overall accomplishment. In this case, since...
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...LaToyra Lewis Case Study: Building a Coalition January 26, 2014 Part I: Group Development While teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C, the Woodson Foundation, a non-profit social service agency, needs to create an executive development team; to improve student outcomes within the schools. In order for you to develop this team, you must first understand the stage of group development. There is typically a five-stage model that must groups following in forming teams, however not all groups go through each stage at the same time. The five-stage model consists of the following stages: 1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing 5. Adjourning Each stage is essential in its own way. The forming stage is crucial to choosing the right individuals to form your team. You will need to maintain a cross-organizational nature, so therefore representatives from the Woodson Foundation, the school district and the NCPIE (National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education) all must be a part of this team. You will need an HR representative from the Woodson foundation, the schools and the NCPIE. The in the second stage of storming, there will be conflict at this stage because each member is unclear about who will take on the leadership role. Once leadership is established, it is important to get each member of the team to come together and storm or share ideas and thoughts about the purpose and issues at hand. The third stage of norming...
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...HBM CASE STUDY Building Coalition GROUP MEMBERS: Tçâá{ f|Çz{ ;DFU`ICCIH< f{|á{|Ü ftåxÇt ;DFU`ICCGH< ZtztÇ WxxÑ ftztÜ ;DFU`ICCIC< fÉâÜtä U|~tá{ etÇt ;DFU`ICCLD< Building a Coalition “After-school program to improve performance of students” Introduction: Woodson Foundation, a large non-profit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C., to improve student outcome by starting an after-school program. To achieve the set target, Woodson Foundation and the school system have to work in collaboration by integrating their organizations effectively. Problems faced by the school: • • Truancy, low student performance and crime Burn out of staff and high turnover among new teachers Solution suggested by Woodson Foundation: • • Conducting an after-school program Integrate organizations effectively How Groups and teams typically operate: A team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose. Thus teamwork occurs when team members live up to their collective accountability for goal accomplishment. For defining the teams in an organization and their functions the first thing is to recognize that they do many things and make many types of performance contributions. Thus teams can be described as that • Recommend things: Teams that study specific problems and recommend solutions for them. These teams have a deadline for target completion and often disband...
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...MGMT 591 11/9/2014 Case Study: Building a Coalition Dr. Anne Hallcom Case Study: Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C, to improve student outcomes. It appears the schools have problems with truancy, low student performance and crime. The teachers are discouraged to help students due to the disrespect and behavioral issues in the classroom. The turnover rate for the best teachers is high, they tend to leave and go to schools that aren’t as troubled (629). Part 1: Group Development The organization has five stages of group development. In the forming stage they have identified that there is a problem, now the plan is how to drive results. The first stage is bringing the plan forward and forming an executive development team. The team will consist of an HR representative from Woodson, the schools, and the NCPIE. This team’s responsibility is developing an operating plan for improving school performance. It is expected that representatives from both teams participate. Once this stage is finalized they can move on to the storming stage. The storming stage will consist of conflicts. This is an aggressive way to get to know each other a little better. Once the team has gotten over differences they start the norming stage. In this stage they realized although they have differences they still share things in common. The cohesiveness is...
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...a new thing from scratch, all in order to work in a more effective and efficient way. Every group faces challenges and victories, even if small ones. According to Robbins and Judge, “Teams are more flexible and responsive to changing events than traditional departments or other forms of permanent groupings. They can quickly assemble, deploy, refocus, and disband”. (Robbins 308) It is with this in mind that this paper will analyze the case study number 3, “ Building a Coalition”, and develop thoughts and considerations about the issues in the study, connecting them to the theory on building teams. Group Development The story begins with the creation of a new agency by the Woodson Foundation, a nonprofit social service agency, and the public school system in Washington D.C., with the participation of the National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education (NCPIE), which is an organization of parents that is involved in the school through the Parent Teacher Association (PTA). They share a common interest in building this new agency in order to create an after school program to help students learn. The three separate groups opted to develop a cross-organizational development team, responsible for implementing an operating plan. That is when the problems begin because each group, even though they share a major interest, has their own demands and ideas. During this part of the case it is possible to infer that the three initial groups mentioned above are developing another...
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...Case Study Week 3 Zhengyu Gui dragonfly8563@gmail.com MGMT591 Professor Bodero July 2014 Group Development When developing teams, a five-stage group-development model called the Tuckman Ladder is referenced most often. The model, first proposed by the educator Bruce Tuckman, is consisted of five distinct stages all teams go through: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Each stage is characterized as the following: * Forming: Characterized by a great deal of uncertainty about the group’s purpose, structure, and leadership. Not until these issues are sorted out members can think of themselves as part of the team and move on to the next stage. * Storming: Characterized by intragroup conflict. Members accept the existence of the group but resist the constraints it imposes on individuality. There is conflict over who will control the group. When this stage is complete, there will be a relatively clear hierarchy of leadership within the group. * Norming: Characterized by close relationships and cohesiveness. There is now a strong sense of group identity and camaraderie. This stage is complete when the group structure solidifies and the group has assimilated a common set of expectations of what defines correct member behavior. * Performing: Characterized by fully functional group. The group structure at this point is fully functional and accepted. Group energy has moved from getting to know and understand each other to performing the...
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...Building a Coalition It is evident after reading this scenario that the Washington D.C school district is facing problems with student performance, crimes and a high turnover rate of teachers, just like many schools today. Teachers are often faced with harsh realities when they start fresh at a school, because of the dysfunctional system in place and then they burn out, and quit. Our textbook talk about the five stages: Forming-Stage, Storming Stage, Norming Stage, performing stage and adjourning Stage. It seems the group is stuck in the forming and storming stage. The group has no sense of direction, structure or leadership and everyone has their own opinions of how the groups should be run. There are already strong opinions on how the problems should be solved regarding truancy, low performance, crimes rate and creating an effective after school program. Referring back to the stages and understanding of the stages would have assisted the Woodson Foundation tremendously. First the forming stage was not completed, the groups should have met and established roles, structure and the purpose and it’s clear that was not established. You have the principal and the superintendent thinking the school should have more power, and not involving the parents, and other members with their opinions as well, which is a clear example that a purpose was not established. Second, the members did not hash out who was going to be doing what, and this stage was not completed because there was...
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...Introduction: Case Study Analysis on Building a Coalition In order for a project to be successful in an organization it should form a diverse team to head it up. Incorporating diversity within the team will encourage creativity and innovation into the formation of the processes and solutions that result in the outcome of the project. Each team member will be able to change and grow by drawing from the different experiences, backgrounds and skills from each individual. The team needs to have a process in place to communicate and collaborate openly and listen to all member’s views, ideas and goals. Diverse work teams will almost always have a level of conflict within them. Respecting each other’s different views and experiences and recognizing that they have been brought together because of a common goal can result in a more effective resolution process.” Regardless of the composition of the group, differences can be leveraged to achieve superior performance.” (Robbins & Judge, 2012 p.58). Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation and Washington D.C. public schools are teaming together to form a new after school program to improve their student outcomes within the community. The NCPIE (National Coalition for Parental involvement in Education) is also going to have a role in this program to represent the parents on behalf of the PTA. (Robbins & Judge, 2012 p.629). When forming a group there is usually five different stages that take place. This group development...
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...Part I: Group Development In the case study Building a Coalition, the development group for the after-school program is currently in the initial stage of group formation. This stage, Forming, is “characterized by much uncertainty” (275) and the approach to completing this stage will have a great effect on the outcome of the project. While The Woodson Foundation and the school district have committed themselves to initiating the program, they have yet to formalize their goals, procedures, or the members that will make up the development group. As such, they have a great deal of work ahead of them in order to begin the work that they will ultimately complete. This is a prime opportunity for them to utilize the stages of group development, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the group in doing so. One area of group development in particular that would assist the formation of an effective group is an understanding of status. There is potential for great amounts of conflict amongst the candidates given the diverse backgrounds of the group members. The textbook defines status as “a socially defined position or rank given to groups or group members by others” (285). As the group has not been formed yet, it would be difficult to accurately project the status each will have, but reviewing their current positions and opinions could allow for some foresight to be obtained. One aspect of status that could be seen as relevant is “the power a person wields over others” (285)...
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...MGT 3700.01 Building a Coalition: Washington DC After School Program To the Development Team: Designing the program will be a big challenge if you do not know what can be expected giving consideration to the dynamics of team building. Your task group will come from cross functional backgrounds which should be very effective once they work with their differences. The positive side is that your team will be made up of experienced individuals. This will weigh heavily in the success this team can bring. 1. Understanding the dynamics of how teams operate you must first know why teams are formed and why they are a good way to solve problems. Team building is for the purpose of setting goals, developing interpersonal relationships between its members, establishing roles and responsibilities, and most importantly, at the end of the day team building should increase trust and openness among the members. The team will go through different stages as they begin to work together. At first, there is a high level of uncertainty and anxiety between members about how to work together and how to approach the problem. Through the process of working through conflicts the members struggle to define their individual and then collective roles. This is when it is important that each member listen openly to others’ ideas. Once they are able to sit and hear each other’s ideas you will find that there will be a greater willingness to work together. This is really a critical stage...
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