Write a 8 page essay on Using Wheelan's text, critically evaluate the team ministry ethos and practices of a team within your placement. How could this team be helped to work more effectively in the l

Write a 8 page essay on Using Wheelan's text, critically evaluate the team ministry ethos and practices of a team within your placement. How could this team be helped to work more effectively in the light of Wheelan's team leadership ethos.

Available literature on human resource development have contended that team learning, eagerness to learn, and continuous professional development of the members of the team lead to the development of the group, effectiveness of the team, and the ability to solve problems3. Both the concept of team learning and group development research begin from the premise that groups or teams will not be effective, unless and otherwise they learn how to overcome barriers such as free riding, team dictators, social loafing, ego-trippers, and a lack of team psychological safety. However, although the point of departure for both literatures remains to be the same, their objective seems to be much different. The focus on most learning literatures has been on how behaviors such as boundary crossing, sharing information, team reflexivity, giving feedback, team effectiveness, and experimentation effect of shared mental models. The key point by these authors is that because there is an increased emphasis on the changing environment, knowledge, and increased knowledge inflation, team learning is emerging as a vital variable in predicting the effectiveness of the team. Similarly, group development literature addresses the question of how groups become so effective over a period. Based on the text of Wheelan, this paper will attempt to evaluate critically the team ministry ethos and practices of a team within my church’s youth team. Particularly, this paper will explain how this youth team can be helped to work more effectively based on the tenets of Wheelan’s team leadership ethos.

This stage is characterized by members choosing their behaviours based on vague assumptions on group objectives, stereotypes on how fellow team members will respond4. In light of focusing on this stage, the church group ought not to engage in socially behaviors that will risk the team from