Team Charter

Team Member Skill Inventory

(Areas individual members can contribute/want to develop)

Kathy is good at research, organization, Powerpoint, and time management. She has access to Windows systems and Powerpoint. Hillari wants to contribute her timliness and challenge herself this time by putting together the Powerpoint presentation for our team in this class. She has extensive computer experience and access to many computers for the project. Travis is very task oriented and efficient, and will contribute his opinions and help freely and will be very dependable. He is very good at Word Perfect, Excel, and Powerpoint. Patrick will contribute his skill as a leader by being our Team Leader, organizing us, keeping us on track, leading meetings, and helping all of us contribute. He will help to do any specific research we may need as a team. Ryan will act as our team scribe, take notes at meetings, and communicate those notes via the team newsgroup and via email. He likes to help and try new ways of doing things. His Internet research systems and his ability to build computers may come in handy to our team. Shane will contribute via his writing skills and his determination, and has access to a computer and software to match those required by the school. Tyler has a variety of skills in many areas and can create audio presentations, video, websites, wiki sites, PowerPoint presentations, or whatever other technological skills may be necessary in completing any of our assignments. He will serve as our technology assistant and contribute to our written work.

Learning Team Goals

(May include project assignment goals, group process goals, quality level goals, etc.)

1. Every Team Member in our team receives an A on all of our Team projects/worksheets.

2. Our group work will be a wonderful collaboration of all of our collective points of view and personalities and we fully expect to attain our goal of no less than 95% of possible points on our Team work.

3. Every Team member will do their share and take responsibility for what they have agreed to do.

4. Every Team member will attend our Team meetings. In the event that this is not possible, a team member will give at least 24 hours notice to our team leader, Patrick, and arrange to receive assignments from the Team offline, online, by email, or by phone.

What are potential barriers to the achievement of these goals?

The barriers we may have in accomplishing what we design to accomplish are the following:

Communication barriers вЂ" due to the nature of our FlexNet class, we do not always all communicate online at the same time. We also experience different communication styles, written or oral, which may inhibit our being able to understand each other clearly, or having our ideas and thoughts expressed at all. The asynchronous nature of our communication may make it difficult to schedule face-to-face meetings as well.

Scheduling вЂ" all of us, all of our Team, have lives and families and work which need our attention. All of us would describe our lives as “full.” Given that our lives are full, we may experience difficulty scheduling our meetings and our assignments. Our strategy for overcoming this will be to set “by when” times clearly before each assignment, and give a little extra time in each “by when” for those who may need a little extra time.

Geographic barriers вЂ" All of us live in different areas. Some of us may have to drive farther than others, but we are all in agreement that we will utilize the University of Phoenix campus as our meeting ground and that the facility will provide us with the things we may need to succeed as a Team.

Ground Rules

Meeting schedule, locations, attendance expectations, agenda, assignment completion, communication methods, etc.

We have agreed to meet in person three times. For those that cannot be there, they will participate via speakerphone, instant messenger, or after the fact via email/newsgroup. We also have agreed to keep in contact with each other throughout the week before a meeting via email and phone calls to make sure that we will be prepared to meet. If needed, we will hold a fourth meeting before the last night of class. If a team member is going to be late or leave early, he or she needs to let the team know. Our meetings will have an agenda that will be communicated via email before our meeting and summarized at the conclusion of our meeting. All Team members will be given a summary of each meeting via email, which will include topics discussed, assignments given, and processes to be implemented. We will keep comments brief, keep the unnecessary details out of our communication, and keep in mind that there are other people there other than us. It is the responsibility of our Team leader to make sure that everyone has the chance to speak. It is also his or her responsibility to make sure that everyone stays on track of where the meeting should be going. We will actively listen and comment on each person’s ideas and opinions in order to come to the best results. Ryan will summarize each members comments for the group, then make sure that everyone has a copy of those notes. Our Team leader will go around the group and ask for comments from each person also e-mails of encouragement to input their ideas, comments.

At the beginning of each meeting we will be reminded to be respectful everyone’s opinion, as each person’s opinion is important and everyone has the right to have his or her opinion heard. We will also agree not to interrupt the speaker. Each Team member will do his or her best to contribute and listen respectfully during our meetings and to avoid interrupting. At the beginning of the meeting, we will make it clear that arguing and use of inappropriate language will not be allowed in team meetings. The team will agree to keep tempers low, keep language clean and respectful, and take deep breaths instead of threaten.

As a team, we have decided that if someone needs a break then he or she will make it known. We agree to refrain from intimidating, using force, or dominating gestures. We agree that what happens in the team meeting stays in the team.

Team members will request the work that he or she wants to do.

We will communicate throughout the course by email, newsgroup postings,