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Module 3 - SLP

GROUPS AND TEAMS AT WORK

For the Module 3 SLP assignment, you will put together a team and assign roles according to the strengths and weaknesses of each person on the team. Choose 5, 9, or 11 very diverse team members and assign them roles. You may also have up to 3 alternate team members, with alternate team member roles in case they are needed. 

Some of you will quickly see what those teams of 5, 9, and 11 members represent: professional athletic teams of basketball, baseball, and football. Not everyone has a background of those types of athletics, however, so there are other options you can use for this assignment. For example, one student submitted a presentation where the team was a squad of soldiers while another selected to do a presentation about an ice hockey team, the Washington Capitals.

Whatever team you select for this project, one of the most important things is to have fun with your team!

SLP Assignment

The focus of this assignment is on your formation of a team which includes role assignment, barriers to team assignments, potential conflicts in the team, and conflict management. Begin the assignment by reading the Stretch (2016) reference as well as chapters 9 and 10 in the Organization Behavior textbook found on the Background page of this Module.

As you determine the multiple personalities that make up your team, think about the following questions that you will later address in a PowerPoint presentation:

1. How do you determine which person gets which role on the team?

2. What barriers do you see in the way of the success of your team in completing assignments?

3. How do you know when the alternates should be activated and others pulled from the team, if only temporarily?

4. What are possible causes of conflict on the team?

5. What steps will you take to reduce conflict on the team?

6. Identify potential conflicts between team members, the outcome of these potential conflicts, and the process you will follow to resolve these conflicts.

Your PowerPoint presentation should be professional with a recommended length of 8 to 12 slides (not counting the cover or reference list slides). Include citations on either the slides or note pages of the presentation and insert coordinating information on the References slide. It is important to note that workers today want to see no more than five words and a picture on each slide. Use the notes pages for everything you want to say after those five words. In addition, these same workers want the pictures to be of real people, not clip art.

You can read about how to prepare an effective PowerPoint presentation at the following reference:

National Conference of States Legislatures (NCSL). (2017). Tips for making effective PowerPoint presentations. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislative-staff/legislative-staff-coordinating-committee/tips-for-making-effective-powerpoint-presentations.aspx

A separate part of your assignment is an MS Word outline of the speech you would say during the presentation. As with any normal outline, the outline should contain only bullet points of the notes you put on the note pages, not whole sentences or paragraphs.

Upload your assignment to the SLP 3 Dropbox. Be sure to review your TurnItIn Originality report. If the score is over 15%, you may not be writing in your own words and you will need to contact your professor and arrange to revise and resubmit your assignment. Changes cannot be made to the submission, however, if it has already been graded by your professor.

Support the information used for this assignment with at least two high-quality journal articles from the Trident Online Library. High-quality references come from peer-reviewed academic journals and text books. All references must be properly cited and included on the References page.

Note: A URL (website address) is NOT a reference. A reference always contains four parts: author, publication date, article title, and the source of the article. Sometimes there is no author, but the APA manual tells you what you can put in that spot instead. The source for a high-quality peer-reviewed journal article is the journal.

Remember to spell check your submission. In addition, check for the correct use of basic APA formatting of the references. You can use another formatting style, such as Chicago or MLA, as long as you use it consistently throughout your submission.

SLP Assignment Expectations

The SLP papers in this course will be evaluated using the criteria as stated in the SLP rubric. The following is a review of the rubric criteria:

• Assignment-Driven Criteria: Does the presentation cover all key elements of the assignment in a substantive way?

• Critical Thinking: Does the presentation demonstrate a college level of analysis in conceptualizing the problem? Are viewpoints and assumptions critically evaluated and synthesized in the formulation of a logical set of conclusions? Does the presentation demonstrate that the student has read, understood, and can apply the background materials for the module?

• Scholarly Writing/Oral Communication: Does the student demonstrate college-level skill in scholarly written/oral communication to an appropriately specialized audience?

• Assignment Organization and Quality of References: Does the student demonstrate understanding of a consistent (e.g., APA) style of referencing by inclusion of proper citations (for paraphrased text and direct quotations) as appropriate? Are appropriate sources from the background material included? Have all sources cited in the paper been included on the References page?

• Timeliness: Has the assignment been submitted to the Dropbox on or before the module’s due date?