1. B-CaP
Week 5 – Class 8 - Monday

2. Agenda Bad News Email – thoughts HBR articles
Introduction of Internal Memo
Charter and team work for the week
Team member interviews
Looking Ahead

3. Bad News Email Much better writing!!!!
Read the assignment and prompt carefully
Still some passive language, extra words, wordiness
A few logic mistakes, vague statements (be specific)
Very few grammatic errors!
Page 57 of text about using space

4. HBR Articles (done by 4:00)
The Hidden Benefits of Keeping Teams in Tact
Five reasons familiar teams perform better than non- familiar teams
Three steps to build familiar teams
Two potential detractors
How Diversity Can Drive Innovation
Two types of diversity
Two-Dimensional diversity
Six behaviors to grow acquired diversity
Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Works

5. Internal Memo Assignment
Synthesize the main points from the HBR articles
Write a 1.5 – 2.0 page internal memo to your team members (MEMO FORMAT)
Use Headers to highlight main “take-away messages” you want your teammates to know
Focus on concepts derived from article and why they are important for your team performance
Due: Friday, February 22, 5:00 p.m. in ICON DROP BOX – PDF Format

6. Team Work This Week WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY NIGHT – Before midnight
In-class – Team Introductions/Presentation
Team Name
Membership
Overview of your charter agreement
WEDNESDAY NIGHT – Before midnight
Blog Post – Team Introduction and Charter

7. Team Charter - Ideas Ground rules for good membership
Meetings: frequency, location, times, attendance expectations, absence notifications
Decision-making protocol: how will you do this, and how will you manage disagreements/ties?
Individual roles (leadership, minutes, writing, editing, proofing) who is responsible for what?
Communication protocol before, during and after meetings: who, what, how etc…?
Accountability and enforcement?
Goals for the Team
How will you agree to make changes to the charter?
Special Team Attributes: Name, Moto, Song, Bird, Flag, Dance, Movie, Food etc…

8. Interview Article
Interview Article

9. Interviews (begin by 4:10)
Activity: You will interview your new team members to learn more about how they fit in your organization
Write down three interview questions you think will help you learn more about your team members.
The first interviewee has the earliest birthdate in the calendar year (so January 1, would be the first person to interview, December 31 would be the last)
The person to the interviewee’s RIGHT will lead the first series of questions.
Each team member asks one question for their team member to answer
Once the interviewee has answered one question from each team member… that interviewee leads the next round of interview questions for another team member…. And so on until all team members have led an interview, and also have been interviewed.

10. Debrief How’d it go? What went well? What was difficult?
Any really hard questions?
Any really good answers?
What would you do differently?

11. Looking Ahead READINGS: Chapter 7 and HBR Articles Wednesday
Ted Talk on Presenting
Team Presentations and Introductions
Blog Post – Team Introduction/Charter – By Midnight
Monday – Article Discussions
Next Friday – Internal Memo Due