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Assignment: Communication and Team Decision Making

Part 1: Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence

A. List and describe the biases in team communication found at the beginning of Chapter 6 in the textbook. Give an example from your own experience of each of these biases. (describe the situation and the outcome)

B. Revisit communication failure examples in Exhibit 6-1. Identify the possible causes of communication or decision-making failure in each example, and, drawing on the information presented in the chapter, discuss measures that might have prevented problems from arising within each team's communication system.

Part 2: Team Decision-Making: Pitfalls and Solutions

A. Define group think. What are the key symptoms of groupthink?

B. Do you think that individuals or groups are better decision-makers? Justify your choice. In what situations would individuals be more effective decision-makers than groups, and in what situations would groups be better than individuals?

Specific Instructions: Read and respond to your classmates' posts. See posting/discussion requirements.

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week's Learning Resources and any additional sources.

Reference: 1. Does Team Building Work? (By Cameron Klein, Deborah DiazGranados, Eduardo Salas, Huy Le, C. Shawn Burke, Rebecca Lyons, and Gerald F. Goodwin)

2. Training Adaptive Teams (By Jamie C. Gorman and Nancy J. Cooke, and Polemnia G. Amazeen)