com week 3 assignment
Team Work Can Make a Difference
By: Craig Jensen
November 11, 2014
COM/100
Instructor Bradley Nygren
Introduction
University of Phoenix is known for making students great team players as there graduates enter the work force. Many teams have been able to do great work at ease, while other teams struggled and had to grow together. There was a team that had four eager students that wanted to learn and do their best. At the start of their college career, they worked together at ease. Classes started to get harder, and challenges started to arise for the members of this team. This paper will show the challenge and growth that this team went through. Each of the students learned valuable lessons and excelled in their studies.
Analysis
During the forming stage, the team showed hard work ethic. Rules were put into place that all members agreed to keep. The rules mainly consisted of communicating any issues, and have the assignment done to be put together two days before the due date. Assignments were done with ease. The quality of work was excellent, and finished on time. As assignments started to get harder the team moved into the storming stage. A higher expectation was given with the assignments, as the assignment began to be more demanding. The team members had to plan in order to be on the same page with the assignments. Each member had great enthusiasm and ideas of what would be a great plan for the assignments. While different ideas came, the group had to agree on one plan. This put some of the team members on edge, because of the differences in ideas. The team struggled on a few assignments, but still got good grades. As this happened, the students went into the norming stage of development. All members of the group started to trust the other member’s ideas and became open to doing work in different ways. The team had to work together rather than individually at this point in order to be on the same page. The work became easy and enjoyable for
By: Craig Jensen
November 11, 2014
COM/100
Instructor Bradley Nygren
Introduction
University of Phoenix is known for making students great team players as there graduates enter the work force. Many teams have been able to do great work at ease, while other teams struggled and had to grow together. There was a team that had four eager students that wanted to learn and do their best. At the start of their college career, they worked together at ease. Classes started to get harder, and challenges started to arise for the members of this team. This paper will show the challenge and growth that this team went through. Each of the students learned valuable lessons and excelled in their studies.
Analysis
During the forming stage, the team showed hard work ethic. Rules were put into place that all members agreed to keep. The rules mainly consisted of communicating any issues, and have the assignment done to be put together two days before the due date. Assignments were done with ease. The quality of work was excellent, and finished on time. As assignments started to get harder the team moved into the storming stage. A higher expectation was given with the assignments, as the assignment began to be more demanding. The team members had to plan in order to be on the same page with the assignments. Each member had great enthusiasm and ideas of what would be a great plan for the assignments. While different ideas came, the group had to agree on one plan. This put some of the team members on edge, because of the differences in ideas. The team struggled on a few assignments, but still got good grades. As this happened, the students went into the norming stage of development. All members of the group started to trust the other member’s ideas and became open to doing work in different ways. The team had to work together rather than individually at this point in order to be on the same page. The work became easy and enjoyable for