Learning Team C Presentation

Misty BurkesShanelle Nickens

Danielle Walthour

COM/516

December 7, 2015

Jon Vernon

The Value of Team Collaboration

• Create collaborative learning environments

• Allow students to broaden and deepen the understanding of concepts

• Serves as laboratories

• Improve the quality of group projects and assignments

• Adult students make sense of and apply new knowledge

• Provides a sense of community and support

Conflict Resolution

• Avoidance

• Accommodation

• Competition

• Compromise

• Collaboration

Learning Styles

• Visual leaner

o make sure visual presentations are well-organized

o make full use of a variety of technologies

o pay attention to detailing

o able to notice if something is off centered or misspelled

o write things down as a way to remembering

o tune in to similarities and differences

Crucial Communication Skills for

an Effective Learning Team

• Team communication skills are critical for ensuring the

success of the team effort. Strong communication skills

can help build relationships, ensure the sharing of new

ideas and practices, and coaching and counseling.

(Smallbusiness.chron.com)

Effective Team Skills

Listen to others

• Listening – listening is not only hearing words that are

spoken but how they are being spoken. Pay attention to

the tone and body language. (Skillsyouneed.com,2015)

Effective Team Skills

Empathy and Encouragement

• Try to keep an open mind with no judgement

• Push your own emotions away so you can understand the

emotions of others.

• Give your team members support. You never know what your

team members are going through in their personal lives, as

well as, the struggle through their education.

Effective Team Skills

Treat people equally

• Communication should be done on a equal basis. Do not

show favoritism while working with learning teams. It

ensures the work is divided evenly and unbiased.

Favoritism is also the cause of negative attention.

(Skillsyouneed.com,2015)

Effective Team Skills cont.

• Give positive feedback as well as negative feedback. Do

not take negative feedback from your teammates as

negative. Take it as constructive criticism

Effective Team SkillsCohesiveness.

• Effective teams need to work well together and that team

cohesiveness depends on strong relationships among the

team members.

• Establish ground rules and work to bring the team together so

that the team can cohesively accomplish goals.

(Smallbusiness.chron.com)

The Purpose of Using the Learning Team Charter.

The Learning Team Charter gives us the ways to get information to

communicate with our team. Each team members has each other's

name , phone number, the time availability for each team member, and

email address.

• It sets team ground rules and guidelines.

• Our expectations for time management and involvement.

• Able to set up strategies to ensure that all team members contribute

and collaborate evenly and fairly.

Effective Components Necessary for Team Success

• Clear Goals

• Open and Clear Communication

• Effective Decision Making

• Balanced Participation

• Valued Diversity

Effective Components Necessary for Team Success

cont.

• Managed Conflict

• Positive Atmosphere

• Cooperative Relationships

• Participative Leadership

Motivational Strategies to Increase Productivity

• Setting Goals

• Positive Thinking

• Positive Imagery

• Self Care

• Inspirational Quotes

Motivational Strategies to Increase Productivity cont.

• Making Team Member Feel Appreciated

• Give Challenging Tasks

• Establish Support

Reference

Biech, Elaine (2001). The Pfieffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools. Jossey-

Bass/Pfieffer. San Francisco, CA, 13-26

Kostanyan, Anush (2014). 15 Effective Ways to Motivate Your Team.

Huffington Post. Retrieved December 2,2012, from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anush-kostanyan/15-

effective-ways-to-motib5854242.html

Leigh, Ricards. Small business.chron.com. Importance of team

communication skills(Assetscan.students.uophx.edu)

Reference cont.

Motivation. 12 Strategies for Motivation That Works. Retrieved December2,2012,

fromhttp://sites.allegheny.edu/deanofstudents/wellness-

education/todays-topic/12-strategies-for-motivation-that-work/

Porter, Shelia J.D (2003). Managing Conflict in Learning Teams.

UniversityofPhoenix.http://www.apollolibrary.com/Library/l

tt/download/ManagingConflict.pdf

Skillsyouneed.com,(2015)http://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/barriers-

communication.html