Team Development Assessment 1

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List three expectations you have about being on a team.
What are your preferences about when and where team meetings should be held? How long should weekly team meetings be?
Describe how you will review task delegation with your team to make sure that the work has been distributed equally.
Scheduling is a problem. Describe how your team will overcome scheduling problems so that meetings are not missed or changed frequently, assignment deadlines are met by all team members and the team communicates efficiently amongst themselves.
What specific agreements about honesty and open communication will you form for the team?
What information would you have the team communicate in writing to facilitate the team's efficiency?
How will you handle differences in your goals and other team members' personal goals in the following areas: a. You want an "A" in the course and one of your other team members will be satisfied with a "B"
What would you do if one team member fixates on a particular idea and cannot listen to the others?
Describe how your team should handle members being late to meetings. Describe how your team should handle a team member missing one meeting. Describe how your team should handle a team member missing several meetings.
Describe what you would do if a team member is not following through with their commitments.
Describe how you would deal with differences of opinion about the quality of the work.
Describe how you would deal with different work habits of individual team members (some people do assignments in advance; others work under the pressure of a deadline).
Do you need consensus within the team to accomplish team goals?
Describe a plan for resolving conflict within and outside the team. List the rules for dealing with conflict.

Adapted from http://web.mit.edu/10.27/www/Team-Building/Forms/teamquest.html