School Powerpoint

1. Chris and Tiffany

2. Learning Objectives
 Advantages and Disadvantages of
Working in Teams
 Advantages
 Disadvantages
 Groupthink

3. Learning Objectives (cont.)
 Strategic Considerations for
Meetings
1. Should We Meet?
2. Who Should Attend?
3. Premeeting Arrangements
4. Leadership Style
5. Decision-Making Format
6. Managing Disruptions
7. Follow-Up

4. Advantages and Disadvantages of
Teams
Advantages Disadvantages
 Improve Quality  Time
 Improve Productivity  Frequent Overuse
 Improve Creativity  Costs
 Improve Loyalty  Low-Quality Decisions
 Improve Commitment  Reduced Effectiveness
 Improve Retention  Hidden Agendas
 Lack of Planning
 Poor Leadership

5. Groupthink
Actions to avoid the tendency
toward groupthink
1. Do not make an early decision
2. Be open to criticism
2. Use a “devil’s advocate”

6. Strategic Considerations
 Should We Meet?
 Who Should Attend?
1. How many people to invite
2. Who the members will represent
3. The members’ functions in the meeting
4. Team-Ability
 Premeeting Arrangements

7. Strategic Considerations
 Leadership Style  Leading Project
1. The Group Teams
2. The Objective of the 1. Be a Facilitator
Meeting 2. Support the Team
3. The type of 3. Delegate
leadership behavior 4. Seek Diversity
with which the
manager personally
feels most
comfortable
Style
Objective

8. Strategic Considerations
 Decision-Making Formats
 The Rational Problem-Solving Process
1. Defining the Problem
2. Analyzing the Problem
3. Brainstorming the Possible Solutions
4. Determining the Criteria that should be met
to eliminate the Problem
5. Selecting the Best Solution
6. Implementing the Solution

9. Strategic Considerations
 Decision-Making Formats (cont.)
 The Nominal Group Technique
1. What is it?
2. Is it effective?
3. Does it have any advantages?

10. Strategic Considerations
 Decision-Making Formats (cont.)
 The Delphi Technique
1. What is it?
2. How does it work?

11. Strategic Considerations
 Managing Disruptions
1. Before the meeting
2. During the Meeting
3. Consider alternatives when asking a
question
 Overhead Questions
 Direct Questions
 Reverse Questions
 Relay Questions

12. Strategic Communications
 Follow-Up
 At meeting’s end, reanalyze the original
goals to ensure you have met them, make
appropriate follow-up assignments, and
evaluate the meeting process to determine
of and how future meetings could be
improved. Appropriate postmeeting follow-
up is also an important component of team
management.

13. Summary
 In conclusion, teams play a vital role to the
business decision-making process. Be
sure to consider the information in this
presentation when leading, attending, or
analyzing a meeting or teamwork. Follow
the guidelines and recommendations to
ensure success as a leader or to offer
suggestions for better communication flow.
Also, formal evaluation of the meeting
helps determine ways a future meeting can
be improved.

14. Works Cited
 Managerial Communication: Strategies
and Applications; Fifth Edition. 2011.
New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Irwin.
 Microsoft Clip Art

15. Team Evaluate and Critique of
Sources
 Tiffany and I worked very well together
and communicated mainly through email
and class time. We look forward to
future presentations together next term.
 The book is very well written and gives
great examples to relate the information
to real-life scenarios, I recommend using
this book in the future.

16. Questions,
Comments,
Concerns?