Collaborative write a team contract that specifies how your team will operate. First talk about the following:

• Choose a pro forma team name. This can be replaced later in the quarter when your concept becomes clearer.

• Decide on weekly meeting times. Team must meet outside of lecture times. 

• Create a team folder (find the Team Folders link on the A2 page) and decide how to organize your team's materials. 

• Agree on a team manager charged with making things happen—facilitating meetings, providing team materials, wrangling technology, dividing work, etc. You can rotate this job—or not.

• Perform process checks, as often as every meeting, to keep the team healthy.

• Arrange methods for remote participation if necessary.

• Specify desired individual behaviors, e.g.

  • Attending meetings on time

  • Working hard

  • Respecting and helping others

  • Reading the text and assignment before starting to work

Process:

1.     Meet, learn about each other, share expectations with one another. Select an initial team name and write a one-page contract that specifies some of the details above. Read over examples from a prior class. 

2.     Create a team folder in class Google Drive folder. Choose an informative name and append your own last names, (ie., Topic_Lastname1_Lastname2_Lastname3;  e.g. Food_Dow_Palani_Prashant_Wong_Zhang). 

Optional Reading

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team 

• The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams 

• Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing, the stages of team processes.