Leadership and Control

Create an approximately 5-minute presentation to establish a team vision. In your previous communication challenge, you resolved a situation that became negative and was getting in the way of a team functioning.

In this challenge, you’ve been given a task by your leader, and you need to bring your team along, not only to get past the previous negative communication but to buy into what’s needed to move forward.

To do that, you will think about what positive qualities support strong communication and effective teamwork. You’ll need to decide what you want to advocate for. And then you’ll need the communication skills to bring others along on your plan.

Innovation and change within organizations often require establishing not only a vision but specific agreements that a team can work within to be successful. You will get practice establishing just such a contract and communicating it in this assessment. You will use video as your means of communicating.

Based on the communications that you have received from your team depicted in Assessment 2, it is clear that your team is struggling with effective team interaction and decision-making. Your examination of the communication surrounding your team members’ feelings about the upcoming meeting has left you concerned. You have resolved to reset the team members’ attitudes so they clearly understand your approach to future communication strategies.

41After analyzing the situation, your plan is to briefly introduce items for your team to consider before the meeting via a posted 4–5 minute presentation. Your goals for this presentation are to:

Explain three critical communication issues and challenges faced by the team, including communication issues to date.

Describe an action or policy that you will introduce to improve communications and assure people are working with a unified purpose.

Define your expectations, or contract, for ethical discourse in team communications.

Provide a rationale that addresses the importance of the expectations or contract.

1. Why is it important to have goals in a team contract?

2. What can happen if there are no sanctions in a team contract?