MY SECTION IS ONLY ON STEP 9 “TRAINING & TECHNOLOGY” & STEP 10 “TEAM MANAGEMENT”)

For this project, you will work in a team where you will be creating a Narrated PowerPoint presentation on implementing virtual, multi-cultural, geographically distributed teams in your organization. You will prepare and conduct your presentation over the next 13 steps during which you will review data on types of teams, team roles, and team leadership. Before you get started, read the full description of the final deliverable and the Steps to Completion.

Begin your presentation by going to Step 1: Teammates and Organization.

When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.

• 2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.
• 2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem.
• 2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem.
• 2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem.
• 2.5: Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against relevant criteria and benchmarks.
• 4.1: Lead and/or participate in a diverse group to accomplish projects and assignments.
• 4.2: Demonstrate the ability to plan and execute a project, articulating clear objectives and goals for the team.
• 4.3: Contribute to team projects, assignments, or organizational goals as an engaged member of a team.
• 4.4: Demonstrate diversity and inclusiveness in a team setting.
• 5.1: Develop constructive resolutions for ethical dilemmas based on application of ethical theories, principles and models.
• 5.4: Resolve workplace conflicts using the optimal approaches and techniques for the situation and involved parties.
• 8.2: Analyze an organization’s current technology capabilities and needs, identifying specific strengths and areas of weakness.
• 9.1: Design organizational structure, systems and processes that support the strategic goals of the organization.
• 11.1: Recommend strategic plan for the use of technology to meet the strategic goals of organization.
• 13.1: Identify and analyze new opportunities.
• 13.2: Create and implement new initiative or enterprise.

Step 1: Teammates and Organization

The first thing you need to do is introduce yourself. You’re all new to this team, so give everyone a little bit of background about yourself. Then review the following:

• the description of the final deliverable
• instructions on how to create a narrated PowerPoint presentation
• the rest of the Steps to Completion for this project

As a team, select an organization to work with.

To do this, first review your individual organizational analyses projects. Then, as a team, decide if one of your organizations might be a good choice for Project 4. If none of the team members’ organizations seem to be a good fit for this project, identify and agree on a possible alternative to submit to your professor for approval.

After you have a good idea of the scope of work, discuss with your instructor any limiting factors you may encounter as you work on this project.

Step 2: Team Agreement and Project Work Plan

The next step is to complete a team agreement template and project work plan (creating a project plan). These are especially important because you (a) are a new team and (b) will be geographically distributed yourselves.

Submit your project plan and work plan to your instructor for review and feedback.

Step 3: Team Types and Principles/Guidelines

The next step is to determine the type of team (types of teams) that would make the most sense, given the mission and goals of your organization. After picking the team type, create a set of general team principles or guidelines that should be useful for a virtual team. Provide rationales for both.

Step 4: Challenges, Solutions, Recommendations

Knowing that you just made recommendations about team types and objectives, it’s time to think through challenges and solutions to your recommendations. You and your teammates decide on the following course of action:

• Given your recommendations in Step 3, identify and analyze challenges that are likely to arise in coordinating the work of these geographically dispersed teams (in Paris, Tokyo, Honolulu, and on the East Coast of the United States).
• Analyze the available options for ensuring successful operations in light of these challenges.
• Determine whether utilizing a follow-the-sun model makes sense for the team’s tasks and objectives or whether there is an alternative way of managing the team’s project work that would be more appropriate.
• Based on your analysis, develop, propose, and defend a recommendation about how to organize and manage work flow to leverage the capacity of teams located in multiple time zones.

Step 5: Team Composition

It’s time to start looking at the teams themselves and thinking about how they should be composed.

Keep the following preferences in mind as you make recommendations about team composition:

• Recommend ideal team size, team composition, and team roles, based on your organization’s needs.
• Analyze options for handling team leadership.
• Identify the team leadership model best suited for your organization and provide a rationale for your explanation.

Step 6: Team Member Personality Assessments

After your team has decided on team composition, the next step is to learn how personality assessments coupled with follow-up training and development (including coaching and mentoring) can enable successful teams.

You and your team should do the following:

• A good place to start is to review the readings you did for Project 1 on personality characteristics (assessments) and discuss with your team how various combinations of personalities might affect team development or team dynamics.
• Identify some team assessments the team should take.
• Explain why and how these assessments will help team members:
  • manage disagreements
  • limit harmful conflict
  • build swift trust
  • prevent free ridership
  • make timely decisions
  • complete assigned work
  • qualify as a high-performing team

Consider the possible things your client organization might do to limit challenges associated with likely personality and other differences among team members.

Step 7: Country Cultural Differences

The next challenge to tackle is cultural differences. With this merger, members of your virtual teams will be French, Japanese, and American, and you have to make some suggestions about how to navigate the cultural differences and preferences among members of these three nationalities. This resource on country cultural differences provides guidance about how to proceed with this important component of your team project.

After reading the resources on country cultural differences:

• Identify potential sources of concern about having company operations in different locations around the world.
• Make and defend recommendations about the optimal approach to prepare for culturally-derived orientations and preferences among team members.

Step 8: Group Decision-Making Processes

One thing you’ve come to realize since you started working on this project is the importance of having good mechanisms in place to make decisions as a group. Research and compile a list of specific resources for brainstorming and other decision-making processes.

Step 9: Training and Technology Needs

After reading up on how to make decisions as a group, your next step will be to identify training opportunities. To identify those opportunities, complete the following tasks:

• Identify optimal information and communication technology (ICT) (team communication/collaborations) to facilitate communication, collaboration, and decision-making.
• Identify necessary training for virtual teams and consider the pros and cons of the CEO’s preference to conduct the team training online rather than with a preliminary face-to-face meeting.
• Include a cost-benefit analysis that helps the CEO understand the pros and cons of her preference for virtual teams. Refer to the Michel and Oliverio (2007) article on cost-benefit analysis you read when working on Project 2.

Step 10: Team Management

Finally, after completing all the previous steps, you should have some recommendations for team management, one of the most important elements of any work team.

• Identify and analyze the options for managing these geographically dispersed multinational and multicultural virtual teams.
• Prepare recommendations that will help the CEO make the best decision about how to do this.

Step 11: Other Advantages and Challenges

You’re nearly done with this project, but after surveying your results, you and your teammates agree that you have to address one last issue: cost, though important, shouldn’t be the only determining factor in the decision to implement virtual teams.

• Identify other advantages and challenges the organization is likely to confront when making this strategic change to virtual, cross-site, global teams.

Step 12: Final Deliverable: Team Narrated PowerPoint presentation

Post your final team narrated PowerPoint presentation as response to a new thread you create titled “Final Team Project” in your team’s study group. Your professor will post general feedback in your study group and, for privacy reasons, post individual grades in the Assignment folder.

Before you submit your assignment, review the competencies below, which your instructor will use to evaluate your work. A good practice would be to use each competency as a self-check to confirm you have incorporated all of them in your work.

• 2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.
• 2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem.
• 2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem.
• 2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem.
• 2.5: Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against relevant criteria and benchmarks.
• 4.1: Lead and/or participate in a diverse group to accomplish projects and assignments.
• 4.2: Demonstrate the ability to plan and execute a project, articulating clear objectives and goals for the team.
• 4.3: Contribute to team projects, assignments, or organizational goals as an engaged member of a team.
• 4.4: Demonstrate diversity and inclusiveness in a team setting.
• 5.1: Develop constructive resolutions for ethical dilemmas based on application of ethical theories, principles and models.
• 5.4: Resolve workplace conflicts using the optimal approaches and techniques for the situation and involved parties.
• 8.2: Analyze an organization’s current technology capabilities and needs, identifying specific strengths and areas of weakness.
• 9.1: Design organizational structure, systems and processes that support the strategic goals of the organization.
• 11.1: Recommend strategic plan for the use of technology to meet the strategic goals of organization.
• 13.1: Identify and analyze new opportunities.
• 13.2: Create and implement new initiative or enterprise.

Step 13: Confidential Individual Team Assessment

Now that you’ve completed your PowerPoint presentation, your final step is to complete confidential assessments on each team member using this form. The purpose of this assessment, and the feedback you may receive from it, to help you and your teammates further develop the skills you’ll need to be effective contributors to team projects in the future.

Submit your team assessment to instructor.

tart by watching the first part of an award-winning PBS video — Liberty: The American Revolution. 

It is 53 minutes long (no commercials!) and can be watched by clicking HERE (Links to an external site.). 

Once the video screen has appeared, the video will soon begin. Be patient. 

As you watch the video, question everything. Many of the events mentioned in it are treated by Foner, but in many cases there is a difference of emphasis and interpretation. Be alert also to what is left out of the video. All selection is interpretation. Omissions sometimes speak louder than what is selected.

As you view it, keep the following questions in mind and answer them for this forum assignment. At all times, compare what you see in the video with the version of this period in your textbook:

1. What reasons are given in the video for the intensification of the conflict between Great Britain and the 13 colonies? Give several reasons, not one or two. Complex historical events are never monocausal. Next, why couldn’t these differences be resolved?
2. Classify these reasons: are they long or short-term? Are the culprits humans, institutions, deep-lying economic trends and expectations? How well do these reasons in the video agree with what Foner states in the textbook? Where do they part company, and why?
3. This video, as the host says at the start, is about Power. Using the video and the textbook, what was the power due and appropriate for government in the period from 1763 to 1783 and what powers were not appropriate or “illegal”?  What was the proper role of government? In answering this question, answer it from the point of view of the following groups of colonists: 1.) to a rich Virginian planter 2.) a free black man working the wharves of New York City? 3.) a New England farmer? 4.) a Philadelphia merchant whose ships carried rum from Barbados to the colonies and Europe. Speculate on what their answers would be to these questions given your reading of Foner. Eric Foner gives you the context for this period — essential information. Give the possible answers these figures would make given the situation they found themselves in, identifying them and discussing at some length why they probably viewed the situation as they did. Use the textbook as well to create your answer.

Create a 10-item dataset that is interval or ratio in scale of measurement (for example, height in inches of 10 people, hours of sleep, scores on their statistics quiz, et cetera). Use SPSS or hand calculations to calculate the mean and standard deviation.
Create a second 10-item dataset that is nominal in scale of measurement (for example, color of 10 cars, favorite sports teams, favorite restaurants, et cetera). What is the mode?
Why does scale of measurement matter in determination of which measures of central tendency and variability are appropriate? What struck you as interesting about the two datasets?
Cite materials used.

Write a detailed, analytic response to one of the superhero comics in class, include an opinion/argument expressed in a secondary source from class. In the essay, construct an argument that synthesizes both the analysis of primary source (again, superhero comics) and the analysis of secondary source. There should be no other sources referenced than the one primary source and one secondary choice from the list in class. I’m thinking to write the response essay about “Ms. Marvel: No Normal” comic. And the file I uploaded is the secondary source from my class. The essay must be at least 750 words. It dues on May 25th.

Article Review assignment

Value: 25 points

Task: Carefully read the assigned article.Take good notes while reading it.Reflect on the article, and identify in your own mind the marketing principles, models, concepts, and tools that we are covering in this course.

When you have all of that clear in your own mind, write a review of this article FROM A MARKETING MANAGERS PERSPECTIVE.What did the company do relative to the 3 C’s of situation assessment?What did the company do relative to the 4 P’s of marketing strategy?How successful were they in accomplishing their objectives?If you were in that company, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?DO NOT just repeat back the article to me – yes, I already read it.I want to know your take on it.

My objective for this assignment is to get you to think like a Marketing Manager, not like a consumer.It is IRRELEVANT if you have ever used the company’s product.This is NOT about your personal experience.This is whether or not you can analytically assess the situation and strategies, using the vocabulary and tools you have learned.

This should be 2 pages, double spaced, and NO NEED for a cover page, or your name and student ID.I prefer to grade these anonymously, and Blackboard knows who you are.This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment – no comparing notes with other student.Definitely no plagiarism.You do not, and SHOULD NOT, need to go to the Internet for additional information.Just use what is in the article.If you make assumptions, clearly state them.