Strayer Univeristy Organizational Leadership Institutional Affiliation Presentation

Instructions

Effective leaders use several communication methods and an understanding of team dynamics to create effective teams. In today’s globalized workplace, team members may be culturally diverse, working together virtually via remote locations, and possibly from multiple generations. Along with creating an effective team, leaders must assist the team in having productive meetings in order to achieve the desired goals.

You are a senior supervisor for the marketing department of a large company in the beginning stages of globalization (you may choose the industry’s focus). Your CEO has approached you with an offer of the position of marketing director and the opportunity to create your own global team. Along with two members from your Los Angeles base, you will need to also hire four additional team members, located in Japan and London, to work with overseas clients. This offer is contingent on approval by the board of directors.

For this assignment, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation to be used in the meeting you and your CEO will have with the board of directors to gain approval to promote you to the position and create this new team.

Your presentation should:

Assess the nature of the collaboration process to show the benefit of creating this team.

Explain the characteristics you will seek and foster for team dynamics to support the organization’s expanding mission and objectives.

Address how you will lead and develop a team that functions and collaborates both in person and virtually. Offer specific strategies that will enhance team meetings for your diverse and geographically distant team.

Summarize how your leadership skills will help you implement strategies to enhance team cohesiveness and productivity. Offer specific examples of strategies you will employ.

Include any other information you feel is relevant to persuade the board that you are the right person to lead this team.

Include speaker notes on each slide. This is a great way to expand on slide content or add additional talking points you want the board to consider, while keeping the presentation visually appealing and concise.

  UNIT V STUDY GUIDE
Communication in Collaboration
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit V
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Explore effective communication methods for leaders.
1.1 Assess the nature of the collaboration process.
1.2 Establish ways to develop collaboration for in-person and virtual teams.
5. Explore communication dynamics and methods that can help leaders to develop highly effective
teams.
5.1 Characterize effective team dynamics.
5.2 Summarize how leadership skills facilitate the implementation of strategies to enhance team
cohesiveness and productivity.
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
1.1
1.2
5.1
5.2
Learning Activity
Unit Lesson
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Video Segment: “Contributing to Workplace Activities”
Video Segment: “Dealing Effectively With Issues, Problems, and Conflicts”
Video Segment: “Developing Effective Workplace Relationships”
Unit V PowerPoint Presentation
Unit Lesson
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Video Segment: “Contributing to Workplace Activities”
Video Segment: “Dealing Effectively With Issues, Problems, and Conflicts”
Video Segment: “Developing Effective Workplace Relationships”
Unit V PowerPoint Presentation
Unit Lesson
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Video Segment: “Contributing to Workplace Activities”
Video Segment: “Dealing Effectively With Issues, Problems, and Conflicts”
Video Segment: “Developing Effective Workplace Relationships”
Unit V PowerPoint Presentation
Unit Lesson
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Video Segment: “Contributing to Workplace Activities”
Video Segment: “Dealing Effectively With Issues, Problems, and Conflicts”
Video Segment: “Developing Effective Workplace Relationships”
Unit V PowerPoint Presentation
Required Unit Resources
Chapter 9: Collaborating in Teams
Chapter 10: Enhancing Team Meetings
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In order to access the following resources, click the links below.
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Title
The transcript for these videos can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar to the right of the video
in the Films On Demand database.
ClickView Pty Limited (Producer). (2012). Developing effective workplace relationships (Segment 1 of 4)
[Video]. In Workplace relationships: Playing your part. Films On Demand.
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aylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=52673&loid=189571
ClickView Pty Limited (Producer). (2012). Contributing to workplace activities (Segment 2 of 4) [Video]. In
Workplace relationships: Playing your part. Films On Demand.
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aylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=52673&loid=189572
ClickView Pty Limited (Producer). (2012). Dealing effectively with issues, problems, and conflicts (Segment 3
of 4) [Video]. In Workplace relationships: Playing your part. Films On Demand
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Unit Lesson
It is highly suggested you read and view the Required Unit Resources for this unit prior to viewing the unit
lesson.
Unit V Lesson Presentation: Communication in Collaboration
PDF version of the Unit V Lesson Presentation
Suggested Unit Resources
In order to access the following resources, click the links below.
The study below seeks to provide leadership research to support the improvement of effective teamwork in
organizations. This study looks beyond traditional team productivity into how a team can keep growing and
working together along with their overall satisfaction members experience as a part of the team.
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Paolucci, N., Dimas, I. D., Zappalà, S., Lourenço, P. R., & Rebelo, T. (2018, December).
Transformational
UNIT x STUDY
GUIDE
leadership and team effectiveness: The mediating role of affective team
commitment. Revista de
Title
Psicologia Del Trabajo y de Las Organizaciones, 34(3), 135–144.
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Teams often deal with setbacks in the workplace which affect the team’s productivity. The article below seeks
to help leaders have researched actions that can help their teams survive adverse situations and bounce
back instead of falling apart.
Stoverink, A. C., Kirkman, B. L., Mistry, S., & Rosen, B. (2020, April). Bouncing back together: Toward a
theoretical model of work team resilience. Academy of Management Review, 45(2), 395–422.
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The purpose for this next article is to identify elements that can assist teams with engagement when using
asynchronous communication in a virtual work environment. Some of the elements identified include frequent
and quality communication between all team members to assist with successful collaborative efforts.
Panteli, N., Yalabik, Z. Y., & Rapti, A. (2019). Fostering work engagement in geographically-dispersed and
asynchronous virtual teams. Information Technology & People, 32(1), 2–17. https://www-proquestcom.libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/docview/2172613423?accountid=33337
The following article features insights into language accommodations strategies needed for virtual business
relationships to function and to avoid miscommunication. The researchers analyzed an international virtual
business team project in China.
Lockwood, J., & Song, Y. (2020, January). Understanding each other: Strategies for accommodation in a
virtual business team project based in China. International Journal of Business Communication,
57(1), 113–144.
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Learning Activities (Nongraded)
Nongraded Learning Activities are provided to aid students in their course of study. You do not have to submit
them. If you have questions, contact your instructor for further guidance and information.
Read the Tupperware Case on the Chapter 9 title page of your eTextbook. Reflect on the two leading
questions on the same page. Answer them with your personal goals in mind.
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