Organizational Team Building ORGANIZATIONAL TEAMS

GROUP DEVELOPMENT

The objective of this part of the study is to answer the question of how the Woodson Foundation could have been assisted in building a cohesive coalition by understanding the stages of group development. The Woodson Foundation is a large nonprofit social service agency and to be teaming up with the Washington DC public schools for the purpose of improving the outcomes of students. Problems at the school include truancy, low performance of students and crime and quick burnout of new staff. The Woodson Foundation plans to create an after-school program that is experimental in nature and involves private money being combined with local leaders in the community with educational expertise. According to the text studied in this course "A work team is such that results in the generation of positive synergy due to effort that is coordinated and as such the effort put forth by individuals results in performance levels that are greater than merely the sum of all individual efforts combined. The team should be comprised of a diversity of members from the cross-section of various interest groups involved in this after-school program.

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The team formed should be a team that is able to identify solutions to problems and as stated is formed from a cross-section of the participating organizations and entities involved in the initiative. The group members should have all the same level of power vested in them so that there is no power-conflict within the group. The team should be made aware that no one will be able to have it all as their view deems to be right and that negotiation and compromise will be involved to ensure the best outcome for all involved and specifically for the students. The students should be the focus of the initiative rather than the personal views of individual group members.
PART II: PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

Identification of problems should be approached from the view of all team members who are the focal point for community members, school and organizational members addressing. The team members will gather information from the various organizations, entities and community at large and bring these problems to the table for discussion among the team for identification of problems and resolution of the problems for the best possible outcome for all involved. Problem-solving can be approached in several ways…