Please review the Discussion Board participation grading rubric. This is important information that will ensure that you earn maximum points. Your professionally written APA-compliant postings, using appropriate sources, should provide substantive depth that advances the Discussion. Please edit your posts for grammatical errors before you post. Be sure to review the requirements for each week’s Discussion topic(s). Remember that a post to the instructor is not considered a post to peers, so please be sure that you respond to at least two peer for full credit.
Access all required readings (articles, videos, etc.) from the Library.
In this week’s reading you learned about:
How leaders will need to work effectively in this global economy
The importance of teams in an organization
The Marketplace simulation by viewing the Marketplace orientation
Your own skills and motivations to succeed
For this first discussion topic, you will be looking at the skills and knowledge it will take to lead in the 21st Century, including the roles that virtual teams serve in helping organizations to remain competitive and agile. This information will be important to you as you start Marketplace simulation game play in Unit 2 and will be a foundation for additional team assignments that you will be completing throughout the MBA program. To respond to this Discussion topic, you will use all of the readings, videos, and other resources that you discover to discuss the following, citing at least one scholarly source in addition to the readings for this week:
Your Main Response
Describe a recent team you have worked on. This could be either a personal or a work-related team. What was your role on this team?
Looking at the readings and videos this week as a base, plus at least one additional scholarly source, talk about how the leadership of this team, whether it was you or someone else, reflected the changing role of the leader in our contemporary world.
Using the readings and videos for this week, talk about what type of leadership skills and styles were used on this team that helped make it successful?
Given that you will be working in teams starting at the end of Unit 1, describe how you can incorporate this information to get your team up and running quickly and effectively.
Example Responses to Peers to Increase Discussion Success
Select at least one successful team example posted by your peers and ask them how they worked together to overcome problems.
Add onto a cited best practice from a peer with an example of your own.
Suggest additional resources that peers can use to be more successful as leaders of teams.
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