For the professor to direct: Create teams of four and designate one as the project manager. Assign them a challenging task with a short deadline. It should be doable for the class, but certainly not easy. Midway through the project, exchange one member per team so that each team has lost one member and gained one new member. Do not allow the team to converse with the member that was “hired away.”

Have the project manager document how they handled the situation, what problems arose, and how they would handle a team differently in the future (knowing that they could lose a teammate at any time and without any notice).