Assignment Prompt & Instructions
**Assessment 1**
**Best Practices in Team Interactions**
[**Instructions**](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/47277/pages/assessment-1-instructions?module_item_id=2367969&content_id=856434)**:**Recommend a game plan for team development that includes interventions that promote conflict resolution, collaboration, and goal attainment.
## **Introduction**
For this assessment, you will recommend a game plan for team development that includes interventions that promote conflict resolution, collaboration, and goal attainment. You will research best practices in team interactions and focus on competencies for effective team collaboration and team leadership as well as how to develop effective professional communication skills for the workplace.
## **Overview**
For this assessment, research best practices in team interactions. Your research should reflect mostly professionally peer-reviewed journal articles. However, if you gather some of the information from an organization's website, that can be appropriate as well. You may use the [SOBTH APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/47277/files/8767586/download) as a template for your writing. Be sure to focus on competencies for effective team collaboration and team leadership.
## **Instructions**
Conduct research to complete the following. In a Word document, address the following:
– Analyze characteristics of effective team leadership.
– Examine models of effective team leadership.
– Propose interventions to promote collaboration and goal attainment.
– Recommend a game plan for team development and conflict resolution within a team.
## **Additional Requirements**
The deliverable for this assessment applies professional skills in HRM to workplace situations that you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work. As part of your learning, focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace. Your assessment should meet the following additional requirements:
– **Length:** Your document should be 2–3 pages plus a reference page.
– **Organization:** Make sure that your writing is well organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader.
– **Font and font size**: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
– **Resources:**Include provided scenario information and references that support your analysis.
– References must provide insight into the relationships between the scenario's common competencies and objectives.
– **Evidence**: Support your assertions with data and in-text citations. See [Health Administration Master's Program (MHA) Library Guidefor initial searching ideas.](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/mha)
– [**APA formatting:**Format resources and in-text citations according to current](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/mha) [Evidence and APAcitation standards.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540)
– [**Written communication:**](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540)
– [Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540)
– [Use spell-check and other tools to ensure correct spelling and grammar.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540)
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
– Competency 3: Analyze characteristics of effective team dynamics and leadership.
– Analyze characteristics of effective team leadership.
– Examine models of effective team leadership.
– Propose interventions to promote collaboration and goal attainment.
– Recommend a game plan for team development and conflict resolution within a team.
– Competency 5: Communicate effectively using professional standards embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
– Demonstrate effective communication through writing and proper use of APA style with no significant errors, and support analysis and recommendations with appropriate current literature.
Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.
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## **Resources**
## **Leadership Style**
– Ledlow, G. R., Bosworth, M., & Maryon, T. (2024). _Leadership for health professionals: Theories, skills, and applications_ (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett.
– _**Available in the courseroom via the VitalSource Bookshelf link. Watch this**_ [_**VitalSource**__**video for more information.**_](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Read Chapter 1, "Leadership Thought," pages 3–22. Pay special attention to Table 1-1 and Table 1-2 on page 9 and to Table 1-3 on page 16.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Read Chapter 2, "Determining Your Own Leadership Style," pages 23–38.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
## [**Health Leadership Challenges**](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Ledlow, G. R., Bosworth, M., & Maryon, T. (2024)._Leadership for health professionals: Theories, skills, and applications_(4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Read Chapter 3, "Today's Health Leadership Challenges," pages 39–60.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Read Chapter 4, "Chronology of Leadership Study and Practice," pages 61–94.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
## [**Leadership Assessment and Research**](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Ledlow, G. R., Bosworth, M., & Maryon, T. (2024)._Leadership for health professionals: Theories, skills, and applications_(4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Read Chapter 7, "Leadership Assessment and Research: Individual, Team, and Organization," pages 159–182.](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
## [**Team Dynamics**](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300)
– [Complete the](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=9300) [Groups versus Teams](http://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/mha5012element20462/wrapper.asp) media piece. This activity allows you to assess your understanding of the difference between groups and teams.
– Click [Team Dynamics](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/MHA5012/teamDynamics/wrapper.asp) to view the multimedia piece and learn more about how the interaction of team members affects the productivity of the team.
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