2. An Overview
– An introduction
– The project proposal
– An evaluation of the
project
– The implementation
strategy for the project
– A project timeline
– Assessment of group skills
– Organizational
development or structure
– Decision-making strategies
– Motivation
– Leadership
– Power use
– Organizational culture
– Conflict resolution
– Summary of group
behavior and performance
during project
4. Proposal
One of the group’s members is heavily involved
in breast cancer awareness trainings. We
collectively decided that we would attempt to
champion this cause, despite the other
members being not as well versed in the
subject. We recognized it as cause is timeless.
Our mission:
“We believe in consumer health autonomy by making resources and information
accessible in a grassroots forum to educate, inform, and empower women and men on
breast cancer and breast health awareness." –Breast Cancer Awareness Group
5. The Evaluation & Implementation
• Virtual Team work is always challenging. In fact,
this dynamic generally streamlines the amount
and type of information shared. (Robbins and
Judges, 2013). Collaborative members are more
likely to only share information that they consider
highly important. (Robbins and Judges, 2013).
However, overall, the team regulated itself and
was able to create a web site with regular visits
from users and surfers. Hosted on the site is a
poll, facts, a donation link, a discourse forum, and
resources regarding breast cancer.
7. The Timeline
0 2 4 6 8
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Communication
Research
Site Work based
on hours logged
8. The following is a copy of the
rubric that we used to gauge our
team efficacy. (Robbins and
Judges, 2013)
•
file:///Users/mmdelaurier/Downloads/MyRubric-2.xls.html
9. 8 6 4 2
RESEARCH The workload is
divided and shared
equally by all team
members.
The workload is
divided and shared
fairly by all team
members, though
workloads may vary
from person to
person.
The workload was
divided, but one
person in the group
is viewed as not
doing his/her fair
share of the work.
The workload was
not divided OR
several people in
the group are
viewed as not
doing their fair
share of the work.
COMMUNICA-
TION
Covers topic in-
depth with details
and examples.
Subject knowledge
is excellent.
Includes essential
knowledge about
the topic. Subject
knowledge appears
to be good.
Includes essential
information about
the topic but there
are 1-2 factual
errors.
Content is minimal
OR there are
several factual
errors.
SITE WORK Content is well
organized using
headings or
bulleted lists to
group related
material.
Uses headings or
bulleted lists to
organize, but the
overall organization
of topics appears
flawed.
Content is logically
organized for the
most part.
There was no clear
or logical
organizational
structure, just lots
of facts.
10. Group Behavior
• Our group was a work
team.
• We were able to
generate a positive
synergy that we would
not have been able to
create as individuals
(Robbins and Judges,
2013).
• We were hugely
collaborative and
complimentary
(Robbins and Judges,
2013).
11. Organizational Development or Structure
• There are three women in our
organization.
• We are members of different
ethnicities and generations.
• To help facilitate the
achievement of our strategic
goals we immediately agreed
to first brainstorm and then
delegate different tasks.
• Our goal was primarily
dictated by teacher directed
expectations; our process was
student determined.
• Our medium project medium
was chosen by the nature of
the class and our proximity to
one another.
12. Decision Making Strategies
• Based on our
reflections: We utilized
the rational decision
making process:
Intelligence, Design,
Choice, & Evaluation
• (Robbins and Judges, 2013).
13. Motivation
• Due to the nature of the class, this
assignment is a microscopic
assessment of our motivation.
(Which we felt to have maintained a
very fluent level throughout.)
Motivation is typically measured by a
person’s intensity, “how hare a
person tries”(Robbins and Judges,
2013), direction, effort and
consistency with relationship to
organizational goals, and
persistence, the extent of which a
person may maintain goals (Robbins
and Judges, 2013).
• Our website as the capability to be
sustained for a very long time. We
encourage all of you to visit
periodically to make your own
assessments.
14. Leadership and Power
• We each had an area of
expertise:
• Camille-cancer
information broad base
• Brittney-research
• Monique-technology
• Because of this, we
were each able to
triangulate expert
information from varied
locations in Virginia.
15. Organizational Culture
• Key Characteristics (as it
relates to this
assignment)-virtual and
cancer related.
• Risk-takers-Stepping
outside of our
individual familiarity,
but able to produce as a
group team.
• Wanted to be accurate
and aesthetically
pleasing.
• Availability-Our website
helps us to keep up with
use and our mission by
generating stats.
• We feel as though the
site itself is very warm
and people friendly.
16. Conflict Resolution
• While there may have been conflict, it was never overt
or debilitating. And because we each subscribe to the
Interactionist view (Robbins, Judges, and Vohra, 2012),
any conflicts were appreciated and helped in
generating new ideas and action.
17. Summary
Despite being a somewhat topical
assignment, we feel as though the
core concentration, community
service, was broad enough to make
both the process and product
authentic. We were able to
proficiently navigate: creativity,
critical thinking, collaborative
efforts, and communication
relatively effortlessly.-
Camille, Brittney, and Monique
