Monique, Camille, & Brittney Breast Cancer Awareness Community Service Project Averett University

1. Community
Service Project
Camille Younger
Brittney Surber
Monique C. Mitchelson-DeLaurier

2. An Overview
 An introduction
 The project proposal
 An evaluation of the project
 The implementation
strategy for the project
 A project timeline
 Assessment of group skills
 Organizational
development or structure
 Decision-making strategies
 Motivation
 Leadership
 Power use
 Organizational culture
 Conflict resolution
 Summary of group behavior
and performance during
project

3. Breast Cancer Introduction
watch link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvpMEs_2AJM&feature=youtu.be

4. Proposal
One of the group’s members is heavily involved in
breast cancer awareness trainings. We collectively
decided that we would attempt to champion this cause,
despite the other members being not as well versed in
the subject. We recognized it as cause is timeless. Our
mission:
“We believe in consumer health autonomy by making resources and
information accessible in a grassroots forum to educate, inform, and
empower women and men on breast cancer and breast health
awareness." –Breast Cancer Awareness Group

5. The Evaluation &
Implementation
 Virtual Team work is always challenging. In fact, this
dynamic generally streamlines the amount and type
of information shared. (Robbins and Judges, 2013).
Collaborative members are more likely to only share
information that they consider highly important.
(Robbins and Judges, 2013). However, overall, the
team regulated itself and was able to create a web
site with regular visits from users and surfers.
Hosted on the site is a poll, facts, a donation link, a
discourse forum, and resources regarding breast
cancer.

6. Website Development In
Response to Project Expectation

7. The Timeline
0 5 10
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Communication
Research
Site Work based
on hours logged

8. The following is a copy
of the
rubric that we used to
gauge our team efficacy.
(Robbins and Judges,
2013)

file:///Users/mmdelaurier/Downloads/MyRubric-2.xls.html

9. 8 6 4 2
RESEARCH The workload is
divided and
shared equally by
all team
members.
The workload is
divided and
shared fairly by all
team members,
though workloads
may vary from
person to person.
The workload was
divided, but one
person in the
group is viewed
as not doing
his/her fair share
of the work.
The workload was
not divided OR
several people in
the group are
viewed as not
doing their fair
share of the work.
COMMUNICA-
TION
Covers topic in-
depth with details
and examples.
Subject
knowledge is
excellent.
Includes essential
knowledge about
the topic. Subject
knowledge
appears to be
good.
Includes essential
information about
the topic but there
are 1-2 factual
errors.
Content is
minimal OR there
are several
factual errors.
SITE WORK Content is well
organized using
headings or
bulleted lists to
group related
material.
Uses headings or
bulleted lists to
organize, but the
overall
organization of
topics appears
flawed.
Content is
logically
organized for the
most part.
There was no
clear or logical
organizational
structure, just lots
of facts.

10. Group Behavior
 Our group was a work
team.
 We were able to
generate a positive
synergy that we would
not have been able to
create as individuals
(Robbins and Judges,
2013).
 We were hugely
collaborative and
complimentary
(Robbins and Judges,
2013).

11. Organizational Development or Structure
 There are three women in
our organization.
 We are members of
different ethnicities and
generations.
 To help facilitate the
achievement of our
strategic goals we
immediately agreed to first
brainstorm and then
delegate different tasks.
 Our goal was primarily
dictated by teacher directed
expectations; our process
was student determined.
 Our medium project
medium was chosen by the
nature of the class and our
proximity to one another.

12. Decision Making Strategies
 Based on our
reflections: We utilized
the rational decision
making process:
Intelligence, Design,
Choice, & Evaluation
 (Robbins and Judges, 2013).

13. Motivation
 Due to the nature of the class,
this assignment is a microscopic
assessment of our motivation.
(Which we felt to have
maintained a very fluent level
throughout.) Motivation is
typically measured by a person’s
intensity, “how hare a person
tries”(Robbins and Judges,
2013), direction, effort and
consistency with relationship to
organizational goals, and
persistence, the extent of which
a person may maintain goals
(Robbins and Judges, 2013).
 Our website as the capability to
be sustained for a very long
time. We encourage all of you to
visit periodically to make your
own assessments.

14. Leadership and Power
 We each had an area
of expertise:
 Camille-cancer
information broad base
 Brittney-research
 Monique-technology
 Because of this, we
were each able to
triangulate expert
information from varied
locations in Virginia.

15. Organizational Culture
 Key Characteristics (as
it relates to this
assignment)-virtual
and cancer related.
 Risk-takers-Stepping
outside of our
individual familiarity,
but able to produce as
a group team.
 Wanted to be accurate
and aesthetically
pleasing.
 Availability-Our
website helps us to
keep up with use and
our mission by
generating stats.
 We feel as though the
site itself is very warm
and people friendly.

16. Conflict Resolution
 While there may have been conflict, it was never
overt or debilitating. And because we each
subscribe to the Interactionist view (Robbins,
Judges, and Vohra, 2012), any conflicts were
appreciated and helped in generating new ideas
and action.

17. Summary
Despite being a somewhat topical assignment, we
feel as though the core concentration, community
service, was broad enough to make both the
process and product authentic. We were able to
proficiently navigate: creativity, critical thinking,
collaborative efforts, and communication relatively
effortlessly.-
Camille, Brittney, and Monique

18. Dedicationwatch link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-djRPSal8QI

19. References
Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. (2013). Organizational
behavior. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson/
Prentice Hall.
Robbins, Judges, and Vohra (2012). Organizational
Behavior Conflict and Resolution. Retrieved
from http://
www.slideshare.net/balajinages/conflict-and-
negotiation-14766538