Running head: ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF GROUPS AND TEAMS Addressing the Challenges of Groups and Teams University of Phoenix LDR/531 May 23, 2011 David Svorinic Addressing the Challenges of Groups and Teams To develop an effective training plan, it is important to take into consideration the many challenges that will arise when groups or teams of people who have never worked together before must collaborate on a project. While the primary goal is to work together
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Communication The literature of the past decade draws focus to the need to moderate the observed rise of communication in a virtual setting with physical, interpersonal communication. In reflection on my and my team’s experiences, communication was more effective in Everest 2 than in Everest 1 with one exception to the rule. The findings infer that online interaction undermines the communicative process by fostering the disinhibition effect, unethical communication and filtering. Although they
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Effective Communications Paper HCS/325 Ahkeda Holland August 15, 2012 Communication is an imperative social contact source for any thriving organization. Communication should be one of the main foundations on building a strong operational business. Communication is not only imperative to the employees but to the consumers of the organization whom are dependent on the staffs communication while receiving services. Without effective communication between staff, consumers’ lives and health could
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project team has been the new trend in the global environment. It has been accepted by increasingly enterprises in recent years. Ariss, Nykodym, and Cole-Laramore [1] define a virtual team as a group of skilled individuals who communicate electronically. Through modern communication tools, a project can recruit team members around the world despite of geographically distant locations. All the members in the virtual project teams share a common project purpose like traditional project teams. Both traditional
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Professor James Marion BUS 518: Project Management Leadership December 11, 2011 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Determine how you would manage the morale of the team related to the change management 4 Critique what steps must be taken to ensure that all team members learn of changes 5 Assess the timing of communication as critical to the success of the project 6 Assume that two (2) key members of the were replaced during the executing phase of the project due to family crisis situations
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Communication within the Training Team The Situation and Why Change or Why Improvement is Needed. A staff survey was completed with my company. The results were provided to my companys employees as a whole; however they were also broken down to each specific department. Within the training department some of the responses showed what had worked well, however the results also showed areas that could be improved on, one of these areas was communication and change. One of the questions asked within
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global virtual team with members of different cultural backgrounds because leaders gradually promote their company to the world. Global projects with using virtual teams are primarily linked through computer and telecommunications technologies across national boundaries. Globalization of the construction industry has brought unique challenges such as coordination among project participants from different countries, and individual’s preferences in decision make and communication. As economic borders
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Communication and Collaboration Strategies Communication and Collaboration Strategies A university professor named Howard Gardner had a theory that there are at least eight intelligences that people perceive to help in solving problems or that provide tools for effective communication between people in a group. Not everyone will possess the same intelligences and this makes each individual different from the other. The eight intelligences are verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic
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kphaueter@hotmail.com BUS3050 Spring 2013 Shayne Narjes 9 Jun 13 * Introduction Communicating effectively during periods of organizational conflict is an important part of organizational success. This paper will discuss the challenge of effective communication as illustrated by a recent change of direction at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Marshall Center). First it will identify the situation of change and conflict at the Marshall Center. This will be done by identifying
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include infrastructure for technology, training and development, performance assessments, and general guidance which is based in the scholastic research this team conducted. Slide 3 – Current Structure The current structure of the organization consists of workgroups in five locations within the U.S. and Portugal. The members of this virtual team are highly diverse, possessing different backgrounds from distinct perspectives in areas such as career, nationality and level of experience. Currently
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