Discuss the purpose of the team and the ultimate goal of the team

This week you learned about teams and managerial communication.  For this week’s assignment, you need to think about a team that you have been a part of, which could have been a sports team, a church team, a work team, or a volunteer team that needed to accomplish a goal.

• Discuss the purpose of the team and the ultimate goal of the team.
• Who were the team members, and what were their respective roles within the team?
• Who was the team leader/manager? How were they put in that role? Were they appointed, voted, self-appointed? Was this person a manager within the organization or did they have managerial or leadership experience?
• Discuss the team leader’s success at managing the “Triangle of Relationships” that is discussed in this week’s readings.
• Discuss the manager’s approach to conflict (Active vs. Passive, Constructive vs. Destructive) based on the matrix from this week’s readings.
• How effective was this manager at the three major types of communication described in this week’s readings?
• How effective was this manager at interpersonal roles? Informational roles? Decision roles? Explain.
• How was the team manager at feedback? Provide examples.
• Overall, was this person the right fit for the role as the team manager/leader? Why or why not? If not, who would have been more suitable to lead/manage the team and why?

In your two-three page paper (not including title page or reference listing) you are required to have a minimum of three relevant sources from the UMGC Online Library for support (other than the text book). Keep in mind that whenever you use an idea from an outside source you must include a properly formatted APA Version 7 citation. You also need to have a properly formatted reference listing on the last page of the paper (reference listings go on their own page.)