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Team Assignment 1 (to be started Week 1, completed and due Week 2)
Please read the document “Team Assignments Approach and Overview” located in Course Home for an overview of approach and requirements for Team Assignments, and the following detailed instructions for Team Assignment 1 to be started in Week 1, and completed in Week 2.

As you know, to develop leadership skills, hands-on in this course, you are being put in virtual teams of 4. With your team members, you will complete 4 team assignments, one in each of weeks 2, 3, 5, and 6. You will do this by each team member having the opportunity to be the Leader in at least one of the Team Assignments (while others take on other specific roles that week).

Objectives of Team Assignment 1
1. To become aware of your leadership qualities, where and how they were developed, areas that need development, and how you could start developing your leadership qualities; and

2. In order to work together virtually, you will share information with your team about how and when you are available for communication, and your leadership and course goals as stated in 1) above.

See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

Tasks and Deliverables for Team Assignment 1
Instructions: Team Assignment 1 requires you to

1. Get started in Week 1 to

1. individually, analyze your leadership strengths, and areas to develop and improve, based on the personal Leadership development and Course goals document (LDCG) in Doc Sharing,

2. indicate your program, experience with online courses, day and time availability, contact information (phone, chat, e-mail address), and time zones, etc… using the Communication Preferences (CP) document in Doc Sharing, and

3. communicate and share the above information in LDCG and CP documents, with your team members, by posting in Team Discussions.

2. Continue in week 2 to

1. share the above information with each other,

2. as a team, using the above information, plan out team roles such as leader, motivator, communicator, facilitator, etc…, for all team members, for all 4 team assignment weeks 2, 3, 5 and 6, as suggested in Team Roles document in Doc Sharing, and

3. collate all team members’ Leadership Development and Course goals and Communication Preferences information with Team roles, in ONE Word document. You may create a table in Word, or an Excel worksheet to represent the information on Leadership and Course Goals (LDCG) summary and Communication Preferences (CP) summary, and submit with the Team Roles information, all in ONE Word document.

Team assignment deliverable must be submitted in three places- at the end of the Team discussions by Team Leader, in Doc Sharing by the leader, and in your own Week 2 Team Assignment Dropbox by each team member.

1. To ensure productivity by each member of your team, a Team Leader and Member Report (TLMR), available in Doc Sharing, will be completed by each member of the team and posted by each member in the Team discussions between Friday and Saturday midnight, and in their own Team Assignment drop box along with their Team assignment deliverable/ product by Sunday 11:59pm.

If the TLMR is not posted in Team discussions and own drop box by Sunday 11:59pm, up to 20% points may be deducted from the full points of the Team assignment.