ADLWPW AREA 3 – Overview and Learning Objectives

Area 3 Overview

This section builds on the previous sections related to how individuals take in, process, and store information and how to improve the interactions between leaders and followers. Teams are more than a group of individuals, and high functioning teams create a synergy that produces more than the sum of individual contributions. We explore how to diagnose the health and development of a team and adapt leadership behaviors that will best serve the team’s development along with how to minimize the impact on a team when new people or new situations are introduced. We explore how a leader can determine which decisions are good ones to include the team and how much influence on the final decision the team should be given. Finally, we explore how leaders should address teams in conflict (both internally and when one team is in conflict with another team).

Lesson 8: Intro into Teams

In lesson eight, we will discuss

• Psychological pressure of teams on individuals
• Group as an Open System Model

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can create a list of the desired behaviors of team members that will create a high functioning team and then classify the behaviors as either task based or relationship-based behaviors.
• LO2: Participants can identify the two inputs and three outcomes of groups as an open system model through participation in a knowledge check question.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to evaluate their own preference for task or relationship focused leadership behaviors through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 9: Group Structural Dimensions

In lesson nine, we will discuss

• Group Structural Dimensions (health of your team)
  • Roles
  • Status
  • Norms
  • Composition
  • Cohesion (task and social)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants will be able to match the five components of Group Structural Dimensions with their definitions in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO2: Participants will explain the four elements of Groups as an Open System (inputs, throughputs, outputs, feedback) in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to summarize how they will address their own preference for task or relationship focused leadership behaviors through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 10: Group Development

In lesson ten, we will discuss

• Role of Task & Relationship
• Ivancevich Chart for analyzing Group Development

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Using the Ivancevich chart, participants can classify observable task and relationship behaviors to identify a team’s group development level.
• LO2: Using the Ivancevich chart to determine a team’s group development level, participants can formulate and describe appropriate leadership behaviors for a team at that developmental level through knowledge check questions.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to infer probable results from a leader applying the wrong level of leadership behaviors to a team at a different level of group development through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 11: Socialization

In lesson eleven, we will discuss

• Goals of Socialization
• Pivotal, Relevant, and Peripheral Behaviors
• How strategies of socialization influence results

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can correctly sequence the leader’s goals in socializing a new person to their team.
• LO2: Participants can differentiate between the three psychological processes as they relate to a leader’s socialization of a new team member.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to compare and contrast the pressures put on new team members by the leader and the followers through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 12: Cohesion

In lesson twelve, we will discuss

• Task and Social Cohesion
• Indicators of Cohesion
• Exploring Dysfunctional Cohesion
• Strategies for Building Team Cohesion

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Evaluate whether a team is cohesive by recognizing the behaviors from the six indicators of cohesion presented in the material.
• LO2: Summarize the individual strategies described in the acronym STICKUM as it relates to increasing cohesion in teams.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to explain how recent national level events may affect cohesion levels of local public safety teams through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 13: Group Decision Making

In lesson thirteen, we will discuss

• Purpose and Considerations of Including the Group in Decisions
• Decision Making Styles
• Vroom-Yetton Decision Making Tree

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can match the types of decision-making styles with their corresponding definitions in a learning check quiz.
• LO2: Using the Vroom-Yetton Decision Making Tree in a given scenario, participants will be able to determine the recommended decision-making style.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to use the Vroom-Yetton Decision Making Tree to correctly compare and contrast their own current comfort in giving a decision to their team through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 14: Intergroup Conflict

In lesson fourteen, we will discuss

• Internal Conflict (Cohesion) and External Conflict (Intergroup)
• Sources of Intergroup Conflict
• Strategies for Managing Conflict Between Teams

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can identify which of the seven most common sources of Intergroup Conflict as described in the materials is present in a given learning check scenario.
• LO2: Participants can identify which of the five strategies for managing Intergroup Conflict as described in the materials is present in a given learning check scenario.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to classify the sources of conflict present in their organization that affect the relationships between front line members and senior leadership and explain how they could use the material from this lesson to address that conflict through participation in a discussion question.