This assignment was locked May 2 at 11:59pm.
After watching the videos, you have an idea of how a team needs to work together to find evaluate a problem, find sources and come up with a solution.
Every team needs to report on its progress. Believe me, your ability to participate effectively on a team will benefit you the rest of your life. Unless you are a hermit, you will always be associated with groups or teams, whether at work or in your personal life.
In your final meeting, you will be creating an Executive Summary of your team process and solution. Do not be scared by how the final team meeting (click the link below) looks. You are doing something much more simple this semester.
Again, I will give you all the paperwork, but here it is if you can to check it out on your own. The
Team Meeting 4 Agenda, and
this
example Team Meeting 4 Notes
to see how students have conducted Team Meeting 4 in the past.
The BIG part of this assignment is the four paragraph summary. This part is turned in and is what counts for your grade now. No PowerPoints, nothing else.
Team Meeting #4 Notes
STUDENT EXAMPLE
Team Name: The Breakfast Club
Case # and Description: #1 Sex Education at Whispering Pines High School
Meeting Date and Time: Oct 15, 11am
Meeting Location and Type: library, face-to-face
Team Members in Attendance:
· Janie Pederson
· Phillip Gonzales
· Mark Schneider
· Kisha Henderson
· Todd Lancing
Team Members Absent:
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Executive Summary
The following summarizes our team, “The Breakfast Club’s,” decision-making process and proposed solution to the problem “What would be the best approach to sex education at Whispering Pines High School?”
Using the Dewey’s Reflective Thinking Sequence in our online and face-to-face meetings, we first researched the characteristics of the problem, stakeholders who would be effective by the solution, the history of what had been tried already to solve the problem, policies and practices that limited the possible solutions and the cultural attitude toward sex education in the area.
The goal of the criteria was to find a solution that served all parties and did not alienate any one group. So, we created a set of criteria by which to determine the best possible solution and then brainstormed solutions. Finally, we analyzed the proposed solutions by scoring them, giving high marks for those that met our criteria best.
We have decided that the solution to our problem will be a three-class system, utilizing existing teachers and following a curriculum approved by individual parents. One class would teach a comprehensive curriculum on sexual education including the use of contraceptives and alternative lifestyles. The second class would teach sexual education fundamentals with an abstinence-only approach. The third classroom option would be no sexual education whatsoever, but would entitle those students to select an elective option in which to utilize that classroom time.
Team Meeting #4 Agenda
Task #1
Write an Executive Summary.
Don’t let the term “Executive” intimidate you. The Executive Summary is the first piece of every corporate report which allows a busy executive to quickly determine whether the report is worth reading. The key is to be brief, but include the most important specifics from each section. In paragraph form, you share the information required in each section of the summary.
Organization of Executive Summary:
· Paragraph 1: Team purpose, team name and problem (stated as an open-ended question)
· Paragraph 2: The process for accomplishing that purpose (i.e Dewey’s Reflective Thinking Sequence and Research Areas)
· Paragraph 3: The goal of the criteria and process for coming up with solutions (i.e. brainstorming or nominal group process)
· Paragraph 4: Description of the Final Solution
Paragraph and title format:
· Left align the title and all paragraphs (no first line indent)
· One line space between title and between each paragraph
Have your Editor take all team member information and write the summary so the tone of the summary comes from one voice (writing style) rather than disjointed voices from all team members.
Task #2
Plan for submission of final draft
· Editor drafts Executive Summary
· Editor sends draft to the team
· Team members send feedback on the draft to the Editor
· The Editor polishes the draft based on feedback
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Editor submits assignment to instructor