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Advanced team management

ADVANCED TEAM MANAGEMENT

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Welcome to ATM!

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Course Goals

• Introducing you to the functioning of teams and the complexities of

teamwork

• Helping you think more analytically about teams and the many factors that
influence their effectiveness

• Assist you in developing insights in your own qualities and behaviors as

a team member

• Assist you in experiencing team membership and evaluating peer and

team effectiveness

Ø Through a combination of lectures, team-based learning exercises, self-reflection

tools, cases, a flipped classroom project, and plenty of active & collective
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Final Team Project (30%)

– You study a team-related topic and consult the rest of

the class on this topic à Flipped classroom
– To do:
• Make a top 3 of your preferred topics from the list (first come, first serve)
• Read at least two accompanying articles from the reading list
• Read at least one self-chosen relevant article from Harvard Business
Review (hbr.org)
• Read at least one self-chosen relevant research article
• Include at least one creative/engaging element for the audience, related
to the topic discussed (exercise, short movie, role-play, case, personal
examples, questions, quiz, …)
• Develop a presentation plan (see template on Courses)
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Final Team Project (30%)

– Topics studied are also material for the final exam

• Thus: you need to understand other teams’ topics as well (cf.

collective learning responsibility)
• Plus: your team presentation will be evaluated by other teams
• Plus: your team can win or lose points by sending clear and
appropriate evaluations of other teams’ presentations
• Thus: attendence is mandatory

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Final Team Project (30%)

Session Session
1 2

Team Formation Send Top 3 of

Topics

Session Session
7 9 & 10
Submit
Presentation Plan Present
Peer Peer
Evaluation Evaluation
1 2

Team Evaluation
Team Evaluation
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Free Riding?

« Social loafing » (Brooks & Ammons, 2003)

• Common form of dysfunctional behavior in which « one or more
members of a group do not do their fair share of the work on a
group project »
• Students: often negative experiences in team work
• Also in businesses & workplace contexts: collective work is nearly
unavoidable

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Free Riding?

• Any experiences?
– Work experiences?
– Previous courses?
– Were you a free rider once?

• How to prevent it?

• What to do when a free rider is on your team?

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Participation (30%)

– Individual
• Input & questions in class
• Active discussion & participation in your team
• Quiz

– Team-based
• Assignments
– Clear argumentations & outline
– Clear collective efforts & integration of information
– Submitted on time
• Peer evaluations
– Two times
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– Specific for each member of your team

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Final Exam (40%)

– During exam period

– Format: Open questions (essay questions); similar to

assignments or cases we will see in class and you’ll do
as team assignments

– You need 10/20 or more to pass the course

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Questions? Comments?

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Team Formation & Team Building

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Team Formation & Team Building

1. Introduce yourself to your team members (Who are you? Hobbies? Passions?
Interests? Dream job?)
2. Discuss what you think your own strengths and weaknesses are as a team member,
based on previous experiences and your KSAs (cf. what are you bringing to the team
in terms of knowledge, skills, attitudes?)
3. How do you think the mix of these different strengths/weaknesses can help or hinder
you to perform as a team on assignments for this course? On your final team
project?
4. Invent a creative name for your team
5. What would you especially like to learn in this course?
6. Decide on a platform you will work on for this course and during the sessions – Make
sure you can have video calls & chat to exchange ideas (e.g., Microsoft Teams,
Google Meet/Docs, Facebook, Skype, …)
7. Appoint a spokesperson for your team for the debrief of this exercise
8. Include a Top 3 of preferred topics for the final team project
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Team Formation & Team Building – Debrief

Spokespersons: What did you discuss? Main findings?

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Who Agrees? Why (not)?

« A lot of hands make light work »

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Who Agrees? Why (not)?

« Most of the time I prefer to work by myself

rather than with other people »

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Who Agrees? Why (not)?

« Teamwork is nice in theory

but ineffective in practice »

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What Are Teams?
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Why Are Teams?

• Why do organizations adopt team-based work

structures?

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