Question.4496 - Team Essay 1: Virtual Team Building New AttemptDue May 27 by 11:59pm Points 100 Submitting a file uploadAssignment AI Policy Select for Details ▼No AI UseAI Use Guidance You may not use any GenAI assistance to complete any part of this assignment.See Key to AI Use for more information.OverviewThis week your Team will design and implement a team building exercise. This can be challenging for your first week (which is why you have until Tuesday midnight of week 2 to complete it). In overall terms this course has a reasonable workload, this just happens to be one of the more intense weeks. The exercise will prepare your team for ensuing group projects.Team discussions are not monitored by Instructor. Teams may communicate through any medium they choose. For Virtual Team-building, Lost at Sea, and Carter Racing your team must have synchronous meetings. For Team Decisions and Fights such a meeting might help but is not necessary.Two of the assigned readings (Aron, 1997 & “Practice 36 questions”) are a research study, and a synopsis of the same. You need not read the study in detail, primarily focus on the first part of the Appendix (i.e. not the ‘small talk’ condition). This describes an experiment on enhancing interpersonal closeness. Your team should either: 1) adapt this experiment as you deem best suited for a team building context, including any modifications/additions/deletions to the questions (how or how much or how little you modify is up to you), or 2) come up a team building exercise of your own choosing.*Whichever option you choose, as you implement your exercise it should rest on two pillars: 1) Self-disclosure and 2) Safety. Self-disclosure means sharing something beyond the superficial – such as dreams, fears, goals, preferences, experiences, etc. Self-disclosure can strengthen relationships and build trust. Safety means that all members feel safe, and the group supports psychological safety. No one feels pressured to share, and any sharing is received with respect and acceptance by the group.The main point: rather than just ‘getting to know one another', a good team building exercise structures interaction in a way that can speed up and deepen the ability of the group to break the ice, develop trust, and move forward as a team. As such, team building can take a group of relative strangers and help them form into a team rather quickly. Indeed team building can be thought of as a form of technology. While we stereotypically think of technology as a system of rules or procedures for transforming objects in the material world (like iron ore into steel), technology can also be thought of as acting upon humans. For example, psychotherapy is a technology; it’s a set of techniques and practices designed to help individuals optimize their potential. Mindfulness or meditative practices are also a technology – designed to help regulate and strengthen our attention. Indeed, Marine boot camp can be thought of as a form of technology. It is a set of routines and practices designed to take a disparate collection of individuals and mold them into a relatively homogeneous group with a shared sense of identity and norms.If you take this assignment seriously, it will help your team on ensuing team-based assignments. Groups that bond well and develop trust perform better in the long run. (And while you should take this seriously, it’s also okay to have fun; Humor is an element known to be conducive to human bonding!) This assignment also provides you with insight into the technology of team building, knowledge you can apply in your professional lives.Don’t get bogged down in process. Spend some time in idea generation (brainstorming regarding your exercise). Then implement. Then write it up!In that your team will be meeting together, you also might spend a short amount of time discussing team norms, aspirations, member proficiencies, or so on.DeliverableA 450- to 500-word team essay describing the essence of your chosen exercise, how it went, what you feel were the results. Endeavor to provide a rich sense of the processes that unfolded in your group and how the exercise worked for your team. Be authentic; if you feel your exercise fell short, just say what happened. Write something that is interesting to read. Please explicitly comment on how your exercise rested on the pillars of disclosure and safety. And, per the 3rd assigned reading (Frei, 2020), say whether (or to what extent) you feel your team developed trust, and why that might matter. Your essay should be written out with good flow (i.e. no bullet points).*If you choose option #1 you can ignore the 'manipulations' done in the study. The bottom line is to come up with three sets of questions, each set containing successively deeper, less superficial questions, with questions that you feel are pertinent to a team context.SubmissionPost in two places: 1) upload it here so your instructor can assign a grade, 2) post it in the Lesson 1 Discussion: Virtual Team Building (as a post not an attachment) so others can view your team’s process. Put # of words in parenthesis at end of document (references don’t count as words).RubricTeam Essay #1: Virtual Team Building RubricTeam Essay #1: Virtual Team Building RubricCriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDraws appropriately on concepts or ideas from the text and/or course material. Demonstrates critical analysis, creativity and insight, and self-reflection as appropriate to the question.60 ptsFull Marks0 ptsNo Marks60 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeWriting: Are the mechanics of writing appropriate, in terms of sentence construction, verb tense, spelling, awkward constructions, formatting guidelines, etc.? Is the answer well written, in terms of its logical organization and flow? I.e. does it read well, is it concise, etc.?30 ptsFull Marks0 ptsNo Marks30 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDoes the student go above and beyond a 'good' answer by demonstrating superior critical analysis, insight, reflection, etc. Is the writing captivating to read?10 ptsFull Marks0 ptsNo Marks10 ptsTotal Points: 100PreviousNext

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