Chapter 10. Leading Teams.

1. Explain in detail The Value of Teams. Explain in detail what is a team, types of teams & agile teams
2. Turn a group of individuals into a collaborative team that achieves high performance through a shared mission and collective responsibility. Identify challenges associated with teamwork, and explain why people sometimes have negative feelings about working in a team.
3. Explain in detail how Lead a team to high performance.
4. Also explain how by providing a compelling purpose and clear objectives, clarifying roles and responsibilities, designing the team in terms of size and diversity, giving team members decision authority, and providing support and coaching.
5. Explain in detail how leading team processes work.
6. Explain in detail how to understand and handle the stages of team development and how to promote cohesiveness and shape productive team norms.
7. Explain in detail what team members contribute.
8. Explain in detail how to overcome team member dilemma and Team member roles
9. Explain in detail how to understand the challenges and benefits of virtual teams and the team leader behaviors that contribute to virtual team effectiveness.
10. Explain in detail the handling of team conflict.
11. Explain different types of conflict, balancing conflict and cooperation, causes of conflict, and Styles to handle conflicts that inevitably arise among members of a team.
12. The chapter suggests that very small teams (say, three to six members) perform better, and most people prefer to work in small teams. However, many companies use teams of 100 or more people to perform complex tasks, such as creating and developing a new product. Do you think a unit of that size can truly function as a team? Discuss in a strategy of an architecture & construction firm.
13. If you were the leader of a team developing a new computer game, how might you apply negotiation to resolve a conflict between two strong-willed members related to which features to include in the game?