You are taking your management team to a team building ropes course in a week. Before your team meets, you will want them to have a foundation of supervision and team building.

Build a manual describing supervision and team building. In this manual you will have a cover page, contents page, and discussion of the competencies as they relate to your company.

My company name is K&K Designs and its a retail business.

Cover these topics in your team building manual (see rubric for details): 1. Identify key stage of effective group formation. 2. Identify the characteristics of effectively functioning teams and how the supervisor encourages their development. 3. Describe the techniques and approaches for empowerment and encouraging selfsufficiency and self-management. 4. Explain how a work group becomes a team. Define the differences in a group-centered versus a team-centered approach. 5. Identify the four general types of work teams, including self-managed work teams. 6. Identify the tools and principles necessary for team problem-solving. 7. Describe the roles of supervisors in the service sector. 8. Discuss the implications of team building in a multicultural workforce. 9. Discuss the principles of planning and goal-setting in team-building. 10.Describe the principles of managing group conflict