Each Step is to begin on a new page. Step 1: After you have completed the Team Worksheet, Step 1 [above]: You are to find and cite at least 3 academically credible, peer reviewed sources in additi 2 n to your text [another textbook is not a valid reference/resource] Determine, from your readings and research [which means in-text citations and corresponding References are required] and write to demonstrate your understanding of what it means to be, both, a -High-Performing, Value-Added, Self-Managed, Work Team [HPVASMWT], and a - High-Performing, Value-Added, Self-Directed, Team Member. These are 2 separate, but interconnected elements which are to be included in this part of your paper. These need to be discussed as 2 separate items. These will define the set of characteristics your team and team members should strive for during this course and transfer to the entire program. Things to talk about could include [but are not limited to] the following: - Strategies to navigate through Team Development stages; -What enhances or detracts from efficient and effective team decision making? - What is the relevance of team cohesiveness? ...and does it, by itself, guarantee high performance? [why / why nothow?..] - How can teams ensure an enhanced high level of functioning? - Given courses are currently being delivered on-line, and your team work is "virtual", please address unique elements brought about by this. - Ultimately, and cumulatively, what defines or characterizes, a HPVASMWTeam and concomitant HPVASMWT members? Step 2: Based on what you wrote about in Step 1.. Prepare a Team Contract [charter] indicating what it is vour Team and Team Members need to do to achieve becoming both a HPVASMWT, and High-Pertorming Value-Added Team]. Members. These need to include what you and your group agree to regarding: - how you will act, adjust and accommodate to diverse types of people, behaviours, and situations - make conscious and deliberate choices [know why, when, what, and how] - EXPLICIT BEHAVIOURAL EXPECTATIONS These need to enable and ensure individual and team accountability and responsibility Once you have agreed and signed this document YOU ARE BOUND BY IT for the rest of the term. In Section G of your contract worksheet ... LIST and EXPLAIN 6 or 7 explicit performance standards/criteria/objectives with defining behaviours, [see; Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS)]. These are elements which should come directly from your Team Contract. You must be able to identify and explain explicit and specific measurable behaviours. These will be used to assess each other and your team. 3 or 4 of these are to assess the Team as a whole 3 or 4 of these ae to evaluate individual Team Members You will evaluate each other and the group, on performance standards/criteria/objectives performance standards, so these performance standards/criteria/objectives must be behaviourally defined and objectively measurable. [for example: communicates well' is too vague - define what kind of communication [modes], how frequently, all other relevant parameters] YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS IN FULL - and one completed copy of this Worksheet is to be submitted along with your formal Team Development Paper Please select one person from of your team to complete this while discussing with all team members. Team Members. With your group, discuss and write down the answer to: A] What do you think are some characteristics ... Please take into consideration working on a VIRTUAL TEAM 1. of a "high performing, value-added, self-managed, team" and 2 of team members necessary to achieve this? B) Review the individual results for each feam member, on various Personality Tests (as done in individual Dinensikns Assignment) Please inciude the tests you believe are important for a toam. C] AFTER reviewing and recording these, explain the implications of the different personality types working together, how cach of you. Wir need to mutually adjust to accommedato to each other, difficulies which may anise and how to be PROACTIVE anticipating and addressing these. D) EXPECTATIONS / GOALS/OBNECTIVES of EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM MEMBER: egarding what you want to get out of this course rolovant to the progeam you are in, how woll you want do in this course, and what you will do to achieve these? aproted. II G] Liat and briofly explain at least 6 or 7 [FOR EACH] spocific criteria you agree to use fo assess evaluate II each team member a the Team as a whole, Remember - these relate to your definction and characteristios, and goal of becoming of a "high perforring. value-added, solf-managed, team [see (A) Remember-criteria are performance standardsjobjectives, therefore thay are visiblo, directly measurable YOUR TEAMS UNIQUE IDENTITY What is your Team Name? What is your Teams Mission