MCS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Team Dynamics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 2000
• Professor: Robert Mc Lean

Document Summary

Barriers to team effectiveness: poor communication skills/lack of communication, unnecessary, nonproductive con ict, lack of attention to planning/no agreement on team processes. Monday, october 24, 2016: learning is simple, nonjudgmental prompts, questions, and phrases that encourage people to continue speaking once they have started, that sounds interesting. Can you say more: i"m not sure it understand this idea completely. This sounds really interesting: support team decision, even if it differs from what you wanted, avoid words like but however agree to disagree . Leadership can manifest in a number a ways: a single team leader for the duration of a project, shared leadership of a team, leadership of different aspects of a project. Effective leader: brings out best in others, manages work processes, helps team succeed. Do this by: over communicating, be transparent, share all information you have, decision made, and incoming communications, reinforcing objective, keep team focused on end object and why the goal is valuable.