Goals:
Mission Statement:
Finishing with a mark of 80% or higher for each and every one of our group projects
throughout this term for MKTG, ORGB, and BSYS. Proving that working in a team is
more effective than working alone.
Defining effective: using less time to finish high quality work and to receive an
outstanding mark opposed to working alone.
Core Values:
1. Adhesion: Team members are willing to interact, cooperate, work on and finish
group projects assigned in MKTG, ORGB, and BSYS together as a group.
2. Reliability: Every team member is equally reliable to others in the group so all our
projects will be completed before or by the deadline with each member working at
their full potential.
Defining best: During group meetings, members share their thoughts based on
their prior research and give unbiased feedbacks to other members’ ideas.
Members also provide detailed research from reliable sources.
3. Respect: Attentive when other members are sharing their thoughts and ideas.
Defining attentive: Team members pay attention and evaluate each other’s ideas
No use of abusive language towards other members of the group in any kind of
situation. No interruptions should be made until the speaker has finished sharing
his/her thoughts.
Performance Goals:
Assignment/ Project schedule (other attachment)
Other Goals:
Other Goals
Team/
Individual
How will we know if goal is
reached?
Handing in all individual / team
Team/
No deduction on being late
projects on time for all classes
that have team projects
Individual
Perfection
Team/
Individual
Work/ Project good presentation
of work with no minor errors
(ex: no spelling, no grammatical
errors)
Team jobs and Belbin Team Roles: (see other attachment)
Due to the result of a disperse distribution in Belbin team Roles, we will not be using
Belbin Team Roles as a main factor when deciding roles for the team. Roles will be
temporarily fixed until one or more members feel a need to rotate their roles. (Feel
that they want to experience a change in their roles; feel that they are not capable of
doing the role they are in right now; feels that another member’s role is too easy
compared to the rest…etc-). Roles will be reassigned through an extra in-person or
online group discussion before another group project begins. Roles will not be altered
until the current project is finished.
Team Norms and Ground Rules:
Communication:
Will take place generally through Whatsapp and text messages. Phones will be used
only if we cannot contact the team member via Whatsapp or text messages. Skype
might also be used if necessary. The project manager (default: Abie) will be
responsible for communication. Frequency of communication varies depending on the
progress of projects.
Expectation:
To improve group efficiency, team members are expected to stay on task AND on
topic during group meetings/discussions. Team members are expected to share their
ideas during meetings, so preparations such as research should be done beforehand.
Members should be on time for group meetings unless excused beforehand or calls
ahead letting at least one other team member know. If they cannot attend a meeting,
he/she will have to inform ideally two team members as soon as he/she realizes
they’re unable to attend.
Task Distribution:
Roughly equal amount of work will be distributed to each member of the team often
by team members choosing which section they feel they can excel at. (More
specifically: when there are less than 6 sections of the project that needs to be done,
sections that requires more work will be spitted so that everyone receives a section to
work on. When there are exactly 6 sections that require approximately same amount
of work, the work load will be distributed equally among members. When there are
more than 6 sections on a project, some sections will be combined to ensure everyone
gets roughly the same amount of work.
Scheduling:
Draft schedules will be made by the time- keeper. The draft schedule will then be
reviewed by the facilitator. If a team member’s personal schedule conflicts with the
project schedule, that specific team member can always request a revise on the
schedule to resolve the conflict. (If necessary, revised) schedule will then be handed
out/ sent to every member of the team. Progresses of task made should be in line with
schedule that has been planned.
Decision making:
Decision will be made as a group during group discussions. Majority rules unless
presented with a reasonable explanation and can convince the rest of the team to
choose otherwise
Disagreements and conflicts resolution:
Team members must be willing to discuss and compromise in any kind of conflicts.
Members are expected to state their point of view of a specific problem they feel
exists in a professional manner. Abusive language is strictly forbidden. Members are
expected to remain seated until the problem is resolved. MEMBERS CANNOT
ABANDON THE WORK THAT THEY’RE ASSIGNED DUE TO
FRUSTRATION AT ANOTHER MEMBER OR TEAM. (Members cannot rush
out the room because of frustration without coming back to the meeting. However,
team members are allowed to have a break, go outside to calm down if they cannot
handle their emotions throughout the discussion). When conflicts arise, the rest of the
members will have to listen to both sides’ opinion thoroughly and explain why they
agree with one of the member’s decision. Again, majority rules. For conflicts over
quality of work, level of effort of a specific member, who does what, the team decides
as whole. All decisions made by the team is to look out for the team, not one specific
member. Defining detailed discussions: why is that specific member not able to
provide high- quality work to the group, not putting effort in his/ her work? What can
be done to improve the situation they are at right now?)
As a last resort if all goes wrong the team will:
Inform the instructor our team can no longer function as a whole