Team Leadership
Team Leadership – Term Paper
Scope and Objective:
In the beginning of the semester our Team Leadership class was presented with the task to help make an organization’s team more effective. We had the freedom to choose who our desired organization could be and to observe them. After much thought and consideration, we chose to observe the Association of Information Technology Professionals, more commonly known as AITP. Our goal for this semester was to observe the AITP group and evaluate our findings to help them become more effective as a team. We would present our findings in a workshop setting, which would in turn, help them see areas where they can improve on.
Findings and Observations:
Our initial observation consisted of evaluating the AITP group as they were selecting members for each individual committee. The first questionable factor that we noticed was the President, Dawn Wolff, was assuming a vast majority of the responsibility for the group. Since this was our first observation of the group, we were unsure if this was just a one-time deal due to the structure of the meeting or if this was common among the group. However, after attending multiple meetings we saw that this was a frequent commonality among the AITP group. Throughout our observation meetings, we saw that Dawn assumed the responsibility of a task before having the chance to delegate it out to another officer. Some of our team members felt that Dawn was assuming all responsibilities because of the chance that she might be a control freak. It was crucial for us to get a better understanding of Dawn’s power and role as a president and where all the other officers fit within the organization.
Our next observation finding was the lack of communication with each other. In our initial meeting with the AITP group, we noticed that whenever there was a conflict, no communication about the conflict would take place. It seemed that members would push the issue under the rug without discussing the
Scope and Objective:
In the beginning of the semester our Team Leadership class was presented with the task to help make an organization’s team more effective. We had the freedom to choose who our desired organization could be and to observe them. After much thought and consideration, we chose to observe the Association of Information Technology Professionals, more commonly known as AITP. Our goal for this semester was to observe the AITP group and evaluate our findings to help them become more effective as a team. We would present our findings in a workshop setting, which would in turn, help them see areas where they can improve on.
Findings and Observations:
Our initial observation consisted of evaluating the AITP group as they were selecting members for each individual committee. The first questionable factor that we noticed was the President, Dawn Wolff, was assuming a vast majority of the responsibility for the group. Since this was our first observation of the group, we were unsure if this was just a one-time deal due to the structure of the meeting or if this was common among the group. However, after attending multiple meetings we saw that this was a frequent commonality among the AITP group. Throughout our observation meetings, we saw that Dawn assumed the responsibility of a task before having the chance to delegate it out to another officer. Some of our team members felt that Dawn was assuming all responsibilities because of the chance that she might be a control freak. It was crucial for us to get a better understanding of Dawn’s power and role as a president and where all the other officers fit within the organization.
Our next observation finding was the lack of communication with each other. In our initial meeting with the AITP group, we noticed that whenever there was a conflict, no communication about the conflict would take place. It seemed that members would push the issue under the rug without discussing the