Learning Objectives

Students learn to:

• Form and maintain a team.
• Collaborate in a project setting.
• Experience different roles on the team and learn how to understand different perspectives.
• Create and establish effective ground rules for the team.
• Set up systems that enhance the team process.
• Create a system for making decisions.
• Brainstorm alternatives effectively.
• Identify the team’s strengths and resources.
• Identify and minimize through collaboration potential weaknesses of the team.
• Create mission statements.
• Manage conflict collaboratively by creating a system for dealing with the most common problems that create conflict.
• Set up effective communication systems used by the team.
• Identify similarities in values and use this information to effectively communicate.
• Make constructive comments that are nonjudgmental and create motivation.
• Develop the ability to listen and understand what someone else is saying.
• Enlist the help of all members of the team and create equitable work plans.
• Plan activities and delegate tasks.
• Create plans of action for the team to do the assigned tasks.
• Plan and execute a meeting.
• Create and plan reports to communicate the team’s progress.
• Assess the team’s progress.