Due Date: [month, day, year], by midnight Purpose: To explore and understand the effect of group behavior, specifically cross-cultural team development and success, on organizational performance and effectiveness. Related to the following course objective: Successfully participate as a team member, lead teams, and manage independent teams to accomplish specific goals and objectives Deliverable: Portfolio comprised of two parts: 1. Part 1), OB research findings and professional data and information serving as the resource from which the presentation is created submitted as a comprehensive outline, and 2. Part 2), Prezi presentation. Go to https://prezi.com/signup/public to access and learn how to create your Prezi presentation. See Instruction 11 for graphic and media options to enhance Portfolio’s presentation portion of. Detailed Instructions below provide steps and directions for creating, packaging, and submitting your Portfolio. Introduction to Assignment For this group-level analysis assignment, you will wear the hat of a rising-star organizational behavior (OB) consultant. You will create a portfolio comprised of a Prezi presentation—Part 2, the major component—supported by Part 1, research findings from diverse OB publications and internet materials; a selected annotated list of professional knowledge, skills, and abilities and learning experiences relevant to group-level, particularly cross-cultural, team experience and success, including relevant networking, communities of practice, special interest groups, and professional associations; and recommendations for OB self- and team-assessment tools. Case Study 2: Going Global: What Does it Take to Make Cross-cultural Teams Successful? will serve as the central organizing influence of your Portfolio. The case describes issues, problems, and challenges related to developing high-performing cross-cultural teams in an organization integrating new employees after an acquisition. The Portfolio’s overarching goal is to convince the client to hire you as an organizational change consultant. Portions of the Portfolio will reflect your actual work, management, and learning experience, when it exists. Other portions will represent reasoned, logical postulations where research and investigation of OB practitioner knowledge, skills, abilities, publications and other resources, and OB training, education, development, networks, and professional associations are used to flesh out what you determine will be a convincing proposal (presented as a Portfolio). This project is designed around the following hypothetical situation: You recently launched an organizational behavior consulting practice, specializing in cross-cultural group and team dynamics and problems. Having done an environmental scan, you know the competition for clients in your niche is stiff. Since the 2008 Recession a number of top-notch OB professionals have established consulting services targeting organ.