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  • 1.  midterm team diagnosis and closing team celebrations

    Posted 10-11-2007 11:45

    Dear colleagues,

    I am looking for help with two team activities.  The first is a process for midterm team diagnosis related to issues such as cohesiveness, communication, leadership.  The second is activities for team celebrations after their tasks are completed.  

    Thanks in advance!

    Peg Williams

    Margaret L. (Peg) Williams, Associate Professor
    Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business
    P. O. Box 844000
    Richmond, VA 23284-4000  Telephone: (804)828-1530
    Fax: (804)225-4790


  • 2.  midterm team diagnosis and closing team celebrations

    Posted 10-11-2007 12:27

    Peg, I would like to help you with this, but I have a clarifying question first.  What is the objective of the diagnosis?  Is it for self-discovery, or do you want to correlate the measures with performance, or do you want to use it as a true diagnosis for intervention?  There are a number of established measures for these kinds of things (I would need to know a little bit more about the aspects of communication and leadership that you are interested in) if you are looking at some analytic data.  If you are looking for more of a gauge for where there are problems, you are probably looking more for a satisfaction measure with these as the criteria.  If you could provide a little more detail, I think that we can give you some good ideas.

     

    Jeff Peterson

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    Dear colleagues,

    I am looking for help with two team activities.  The first is a process for midterm team diagnosis related to issues such as cohesiveness, communication, leadership.  The second is activities for team celebrations after their tasks are completed.  

    Thanks in advance!

    Peg Williams

    Margaret L. (Peg) Williams, Associate Professor
    <st1:placename w:st="on">Virginia</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Commonwealth</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename></st1:place>
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  • 3.  midterm team diagnosis and closing team celebrations

    Posted 10-11-2007 13:05
    I attached the process thermometer, a good diagnostic for team development. Hope it helps, Anke :)

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Margaret L Williams/AC/VCU
    Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:45 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: midterm team diagnosis and closing team celebrations


    Dear colleagues,

    I am looking for help with two team activities.  The first is a process for midterm team diagnosis related to issues such as cohesiveness, communication, leadership.  The second is activities for team celebrations after their tasks are completed.  

    Thanks in advance!

    Peg Williams

    Margaret L. (Peg) Williams, Associate Professor
    Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business
    P. O. Box 844000
    Richmond, VA 23284-4000  Telephone: (804)828-1530
    Fax: (804)225-4790


  • 4.  midterm team diagnosis and closing team celebrations

    Posted 10-14-2007 09:58
    On 10/11/2007 Margaret L Williams/AC/VCU wrote:
    >
    > I am looking for help with two team activities. The first is a
    > process for midterm team diagnosis related to issues such as
    > cohesiveness, communication, leadership. The second is activities
    > for team celebrations after their tasks are completed.

    Peg-
    A number of team development tools/exercises, including a
    self-administering mid-term team diagnosis (tenkchk.pdf),
    are available for download from the following web page:
    http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hackman/tools/

    r.

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