W02 Discussion: Choosing Leaders - PEACE 101 Team 8From PEACE 10166 unread replies.66 replies.PURPOSETo help everyone have an opportunity to be a weekly team leader. Create a schedule of each team member's turn to be a weekly team leader.TEAM ACTIVITY SCHEDULEW02 Discussion: Choosing Leaders (this discussion)W03 Discussion: Analyzing Destructive ConflictW04 Discussion: Designing a Restorative InterventionW05 Discussion: The Art of MediationW06 Discussion: Final Part 1 - Analyzing the ConflictW06 Discussion: Final Part 2 - Peacebuilding ProposalINDIVIDUAL TASKIn your initial discussion board post, indicate which week you prefer to be a team leader. NOTE: There are two team discussions in Week 6, and thus two opportunities to be a team leader.TEAM TASKSAfter everyone has expressed their preferences, use the discussion board to negotiate any differences.Determine who will be the team leader for this assignment.Discuss how you want to work on future team activities. For example, is there a certain day of each week in which everyone will post their initial thoughts on a particular team activity's readings and prompts? How will you discuss and collaborate on the written responses in a way that everyone will have an opportunity to contribute?

A good team leader should focus on: Group of answer choicesMicromanaging every task and decisionAvoiding any conflict or disagreement among membersBuilding trust and psychological safety within the teamTaking all the credit for the team's successes

To foster a positive team environment, it's important to:  Group of answer choicesDiscourage open communication of concerns or ideasProvide limited feedback and recognition to team membersCelebrate individual achievements and team milestonesAllow conflicts to fester without resolution

W06 Discussion: Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict - PEACE 101 Team 8From PEACE 10144 unread replies.1010 replies.Instead of an individual assignment this week, you will complete two team projects. These projects constitute your Final Exam. They are meant to give your team a chance to demonstrate your mastery of the course concepts. The first part is analyzing a societal conflict.INDIVIDUAL TASKSRead Conflict & Peace Reader, “RefugeesLinks to an external site.” (7 pages). This is a relatively short reading, but the analysis should take significant time and thought. As you study this multifaceted conflict, consider the following questions:Actors – Who are the key groups in the conflict? What are their relative sizes, resources, status, interests, and goals?Positions – What are the demands (and explanations of those demands) that each side makes?Factors – What are the key issues in the conflict? What is at stake (material, psychological, social, structural, etc.) for each side?Dynamics – What is happening in the conflict? What is the state of conflict? (Latent tension? Overt conflict? Power struggle? Violence? Escalation? Deescalation?) How does the conflict fit the conflict cycle? (Encroachment? Resistance? Surrender? Demarcation?)Collusion – How do the participants justify their actions within the conflict? How does the other side see those actions? In which box does each side seem to be?Take notes as you read. In addition to the questions above and consider the questions your team will be discussing (see below).Share your initial notes and insights on the discussion board early.Access the team's shared Google Doc (see instructions below).Contribute to the discussion board (and the Google Doc) to help the team arrive at a consensus about how to describe the conflict and answer the activity's questions.LEADER TASKS — ONLY the current Team Leader completes the following:Initiate the Conversation by making an initial post inviting early and inviting every member of the team to share their individual notes and insights.Help guide the discussion board conversation to arrive at a the best analysis of the conflict.Create a shared Google Doc (following instructions below) where the team can cooperatively write responses to questions below.Oversee the writing of a common response to each question.Submit the final agreed-upon responses by copying and pasting them from the Google Doc into the text box in W06 Final Exam: Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict.CREATING A SHARED GOOGLE DOC — for ONLY the Current Team LeaderGo to the "Collaborations" tab in Canvas, click on "+ Collaboration," and select "Google Drive (LTI 1.3)".Title the new file "Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict".Select your instructor and teammates as collaborators.Click the "Create" button.ACCESSING A SHARED GOOGLE DOC — for ALL team membersGo to the "Collaborations" tab in Canvas.Click on the file entitled "Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict".As a group work on responses to each of the questions below.TEAM INSTRUCTIONSAs a team, write a detailed response to each of the questions below. Check the rubric on W06 Final Exam: Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict to understand how this activity will be graded. As your team works together to answer each of the prompts, please keep the following in mind for this first part of the Final Exam:Make sure you are correctly applying each concept and answering all elements of each prompt.Be sure to provide good details from the conflict to support your analysis.There is no suggested word count for each question, but each should be thoroughly answered.After your team has completed the activity, the leader—and only the leader—submits this activity on I-Learn by copying and pasting it into the Text Entry box in I-Learn. The grade for the activity will automatically be given to every team member.ACTIVITY QUESTIONSDemands & Reasons – What is the most important thing each side wants and their most important rationale for wanting it.Collusion – How has each side engaged in I-It approaches to relationships in this conflict? How are they in collusion with one another?Challenges – Which three (3) elements of the conflict pose the greatest challenges for transformation of conflict? Explain each factor.Opportunities – Which three (3) elements of the conflict present the best opportunities (potential entrance points) for a peacebuilding effort? Explain each element.Third Side Role – Considering the following six Third Side roles—provider, teacher, bridge-builder, equalizer, healer, and witness—which role makes the most sense for a group such as your team to attempt to intervene in the conflict? Explain your reasoning. NOTE: The roles of arbiter, mediator, referee, and peacekeeper are NOT options for this project.

One of the biggest challenges in managing a virtual team is ___.Multiple choice question.finding team members for the projectdeveloping effective patterns of communicationdealing with conflict

A team in the middle of the ______ stage of team development experiences individual conflicts and the emergence of individual personalities within the group.Multiple choice question.normingstormingperformingadjourningforming