MQBS3010 – Forming & Storming – Week 04.

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Having gone through ‘Introduction to Teams’ in the Teamwork Module, as well as your
team meetings so far, complete the following tasks as a team. The tasks each week will
be the scaffolding to help your Capstone Project which you are working on as a team –
see the Capstone Project Module.

Record your own and your team’s responses in this DOC file (or elsewhere) and save this file in a new
folder on your device called ‘Capstone Log’. If you are performing this task F2F and handwriting,
take a picture of your responses and save it in your personal Capstone Log. If you are
performing the collaborative tasks using Padlet, once complete, place a screenshot in
this DOC file for your own records. We will continue to populate the Capstone Log throughout
the session. You will be required to draw upon the log later during the session. All you need are dot
points, thought bubbles, brainstorms (anything that helps you make notes of team meetings!) for you
to refer back to your ongoing discussions each week – this document will not be marked. We are
encouraging you to keep the log for your own benefit and be able to reflect on it at the end of the
session (reflecting at the end of the session is part of the Capstone Report).

Forming
Part 1 – Create a Padlet account for your Team

(in teams – 15 minutes)

Only one member of your team needs to perform this task. This team member
should share their screen with their team members while the task is performed.
Following the steps for this task will generate a link for an online collaboration
space, which that team member can share with everyone else in the team.
Unless someone volunteers for the role, the team leader for the rest of today is
whoever has their birthday closest to your lecturer’s birthday.
The instructions for creating a Padlet are on the next few pages.

You will use this for all team meetings!

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Please go to padlet.com and click Sign up for free.

You can sign up with Google (your MQ student email account):

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After signing up, when you log in, you will arrive here. Now click on the pink button, Make a Padlet:

There are different options for online brainstorming, perhaps you may want to select Canvas (feel
free to choose another type of Padlet!):

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You now have your Padlet (below)! The colours will vary, you can edit these if needed! To give your
team members access, click share on the top right:

Then you can share the link with your team members (such as copy to clipboard and then paste the
link in an email, WeChat, FB Messenger, WhatApp chat, Zoom chat, or anything really!):

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Once everyone has access to the Padlet (via sharing the link), anyone can type by simply double-
clicking the Padlet, or clicking the “+” icon on the bottom right of the screen:

You can edit posts (have fun exploring!), you can connect posts, and you can click and drag them
around as well!

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At any one time, you can have 3 free Padlets. You can access your Home, by clicking on the top right
circle (Account):

Home has all your Padlets, and you can click on the pink button, make a padlet to make a second
padlet, or a third padlet:

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Once you reach 3 Padlets, and you want to create more, you will have to choose delete Padlet for
one of these:

If you want to save a Padlet before deleting, once in the Padlet, go to share, then scroll down for the
various save options (save as image looks like a Padlet, whereas save as PDF looks like plain text):

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Part 2 – Re-cap on Forming (In Teams – 30 minutes)

Discussion points. Divide the time you have equally across all discussion points.

Use a new Padlet space for this task (ensure that all team members have the link!)

1. Have each of your gone through the Capstone Project PDF? As a team write out the
expectation of the Capstone Project in 2-3 sentences. The motivation here is to put the entire
team on the same page 😊

2. As a team write down which UN SDG you will focus on for your project (this may change
next week, so don’t stress!). Consider what other UN SDGs may also be by-products of
your project. For each team member – write down how their experience and expertise can
help fulfil this goal (at least one per team member).

3. Consider your discussion of ‘Team Task’, ‘Team Processes’, ‘Team Effectiveness’ from last
week. Have you finalised how these relate to your team and project? You can refer to the
Lego Activity from last week as a reference point, and then extrapolate that
experience to your Capstone Project. Come up with a system for monitoring each of
these and who will be responsible for the monitoring of each. You may decide on a
hierarchical approach or a de-centralised approach.

4. Consider your discussion of ‘Inputs’ and ‘Output’ from last week. Have you finalised how
these relate to your team and project? You can refer to the Lego Activity from last
week as a reference point, and then extrapolate that experience to your Capstone
Project. Come up with a system for monitoring each of these and who will be responsible for
the monitoring of each. You may decide on a hierarchical approach or a de-centralised
approach.

5. If you have time until the end of this breakout room (Zoom) / breakout table (F2F), feel free
to have an open-ended discussion about your project!

Save your Padlet and share with team members. Alternatively, team members can take
a screenshot, paste it to a DOC file, and save it.

Part 3 – Teams and Teamwork (Whole of class – 45 minutes)

Your lecturer will go through your reading of the Teamwork Module and incorporate your own input
based on your discussions from Part 2.

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Storming
Part 4 – Teams and Teamwork (in teams – 60 minutes)

Use a new Padlet space for this task, or if you are F2F you may use paper / whiteboard.
You will have to share a new link amongst team members.

The instructions about how to create a new Padlet on page 6 of this document.

1. Your team should be at the

stage of “Storming” now.
Hopefully, you have arrived at
the UN SDG that your team will
focus on. You should be
narrowing down the ideas for
your business project as well.
Choose one feasible idea to
focus on for today – (you can
repeat today’s entire exercise if
you change your capstone
project idea later). Use a new
Padlet space for this task,
or if you are F2F you may
use paper / whiteboard.
Write the business project idea in the middle of the page and consider “Inputs” in the IPO
framework. What inputs would you need to make your business project a reality?

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2. For each of these inputs, each member should consider their contribution to make the input
happen – look at your reflective essay and peer-review document for inspiration. Write this down
as part of your brainstorm diagram. Not everyone has to be able to contribute to each input, but
every team member must contribute something obviously. Team members can also encourage
others based on their knowledge of each others’ peer-review document.

3. Now take a step back and look at your brainstorm diagram. Consider “Processes” in the IPO
Framework. Utilise your brainstorm diagram to conceptualise and create the processes that utilise
the information that you created in #2 above – that is, given that each team member has stated
how they can contribute to a certain input, what processes will they perform for your project. At
this stage you could be delegating aspects of your project to each team member and giving them a
job title for the project.

4. Now consider “Outputs” in the IPO Framework. What will each team member need to deliver for
your project? Think about each team members output and discuss ideas for each output as a team.
Formalise and finalise your expectations for each member’s output and write this down.

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5. Given your discussions and actions today, where do you place yourself in the Belbin Team Roles
framework?

You may need to continue this discussion after class. If so, please organise your own
additional team meeting time before the next seminar.

Please turn over.

Part 5 – Individually during the seminar if time permits or after class (30
minutes)

Watch the TED talk (you may have watched this already if you did your home-work!) and learn about
emotional resilience and agility. The speaker, Susan David encourages you to journal 'like nobody is
reading'. Adopt this approach for this week's log you keep and answer the prompting questions that
will help you feel and define your feelings. Be open and honest and feel into your emotions with
curiosity and courage. 

Remember, emotions are data and here to help you inform your value aligned actions. It's also
recommended you arrive at your personal values as part of this exercise, which will help you answer
these questions from a more internally aligned space. 

1. What have you noticed you were feeling when your group arrived at your final SDG? 

2. By using the resources from Susan David, could you define the underpinning emotions that form

part of the 'umbrella emotion' you've identified in your answers to question 1? There are some

infographics at the end of this document to help.

3. What is your relationship with uncertainty?

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4. What would it take for you to become more emotionally resilient?

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