Leading team

What is the difference between a "team" and a "group"? Describe your personal experience with each.

A team is a unit of two or more people who interact and coordinate their work to accomplish a shared goal or purpose for which they are committed and hold themselves mutually accountable

A team is a group of people, but the two are not one and the same. People who do not interact regularly, such as those waiting in line at the company cafeteria or riding together in the elevator, do not compose a team. Even a group of employees whose work is related is not a team unless the members share a common purpose that requires them to depend on each other

A team is

2.Which of the five elements of high-performance teams do you think would be most difficult for a leader to implement in a virtual team? Explain

1. A compelling purpose, clear objectives , and explicit metrics

2. A Diversity of skills and unambiguous roles

3. Streamlined team size

4. Decision Authority over how to achieve goals

5. Support and Coaching

3.What style of handling conflict do you typically use? Can you think of instances where a different style might have been more productive?

Dominating

Avoiding

Compromising

Accommodating

Collabrating

4. If you were the leader of a team developing a new computer game, how might you apply negotiation to resolve a conflict between two strong-willed members related to which features to include in the game?

Integrative Negotiation

Subtopic

Distributive Negotiation

5. The chapter suggests that very small teams (say, three to six members) perform better, and most people prefer to work in small teams. However, many companies use teams of 100 or more people to perform complex tasks, such as creating and developing a new product. Do you think a unit of that size can truly function as a team? Discuss.

6. How might an individual’s dilemma about teamwork be intensified or reduced in a virtual team? As a virtual team leader, what would you do to manage these dilemmas?