Team development and change management

This is a long 3 part assignment and should be kept in 3 parts.

Part 1

You will conduct two team development sessions with a group of people who are part of your life

Preferably, the size of this group should be about 5 people (including you).

Develop an exercise based on one of the team exercises presented in Personal Mastery, Mental Models, and Shared Vision, and prepare the first session of the team development plan.

• Describe the intended purpose of the first session.

• Define change management and explain the three disciplines of Personal Mastery, Mental Models, and Shared Vision.

• Explain the learning discipline you have selected, why you have selected it, and why it is important.

• Explain the group exercise you have selected and how you will use the team development material.

• Describe the organization you have selected for your project. Also specifically identify the sector of the organization:

o Non-profit.

o Government.

o Business or industry.

• Outline your schedule for session one of team development. Include the names and titles of the organization team members participating in the sessions, and the scheduled meeting dates and times. If you have not been able to solidify any part of your schedule, please give a report on your progress.

Part 2

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to provide an account in narrative form of your experience conducting your first team development session. You will describe the exercise you chose, how it relates to and supports your chosen discipline (Personal Mastery, Mental Models, or Shared Vision), successes and challenges encountered in the conduct of your session, and your experience and learning as a facilitator. You will also discuss insights obtained about your chosen discipline and its usefulness in helping a group examine itself, choose a new direction, and commit to that direction.

Instructions

In this assignment, you will summarize your first team development session. Conduct your first team session with your selected team before working on this assignment.

• Write a summary of your first team development session in a narrative format telling the stories of what happened and by answering the following questions:

o What exercise did you choose in order to experience the discipline chosen?

o Why did you choose this exercise?

o How did it go?

o What worked or did not work?

o What would you do differently next time?

o What did you learn about facilitation, and planned and unplanned journeys?

o What did you learn about your chosen discipline and its potential for helping a group examine itself, choose a new direction, and commit to that direction?

Part 3

• Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to provide an analysis of your learning in the course so far as it relates to your experience of conducting your first group session. This will be a somewhat more analytical and reflective treatment than your first two assignments in Units 3 and 4, and will include, among other things, an analysis of how your selected exercise, team experience, and session outcomes support your chosen discipline and change management theories. You will also describe your primary lessons gained from the team development experience, and the value and impact of using the disciplines to effect change. You will offer your recommendations for the use of this approach to meet the change management needs of your team and organization. The analysis you provide in this paper will resemble, to some extent, what is expected in your final paper to be submitted in Units 9 and 10. Hence its name, First Draft.

Instructions

Using the narrative you completed in Unit 4 as your starting point, analyze the team development experience in the context of change management and the Five Disciplines theory. You will receive feedback from your instructor and peers, and you will have an opportunity to incorporate this feedback into your final draft due at the end of Unit 10.

Your analysis should include the following topics:

• Change management and the first three of the Five Disciplines theories.

o Summarize change management theory.

o Explain which of the three disciplines you chose and explain the theory behind your discipline.

o Analyze how the exercise, the team’s experience, and learning support your discipline and change management theories. You may choose from Mental Models, Personal Mastery, or Shared Vision and demonstrate your understanding of it using your experience from the interviews.

• Learning as a facilitator from the first session of team development.

o Write a section on your learning as a facilitator. What worked, what did not work, and what would you do differently next time?

o How would you change your contract, your explanation of change management, the discipline, the exercise, your exercise choice, or your behavior during the team session to enhance the quality of team learning?

• Session one summary statement.

o Think about your experience from session one using one of these three disciplines to facilitate a team learning experience.

o Describe the primary lessons you gained from this experience, the value of using one of the Five Disciplines, and the possibility of this approach to propel change and possibility.

o Include recommendations about the use of this approach for change management needs for your team and the team’s larger organization.

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