In your Team Performance course at the beginning of the OMBA program, you learned about team processes and the importance of team guidelines. Because this course relies heavily on a major team project (which collectively accounts for 60% of your course grade), you will need to develop and deliver to the instructor a team contract to govern your collective expectations for your team’s behavior and performance during this course. At a minimum, your team contract should present a set of guidelines for the completion of the team project that
- identifies the collaboration tools you will use (Google Docs, Zoom, etc.),
- discusses meeting times and places,
- specifies individual responsibilities,
- states realistic expectations for team and individual performance and behavior, and
- describes consequences for noncompliance (e.g., failure to deliver agreed-upon work in a timely manner and of acceptable quality).
You may establish additional policies to govern your team if you wish.
All team members must agree upon the contract. Clarity and specificity are paramount—be certain to document your team’s ground rules, norms, values, and goals; prepare a contract that is thorough and realistic; and establish a suitable level of individual accountability.
Clear and open communication is essential throughout the team project. You are expected to address performance and behavioral issues in a direct and timely way so that they do not become major impediments to your overall effectiveness. The team contract will enable the instructor to provide guidance or enforce discipline if consulted by team members.
Please refer back to the Team Performance course to refresh yourselves on specific aspects of a useful team contract.
Your contract must be no longer than one single-spaced page using 12-point font. Strive to be thorough yet concise. You may use a plain text or bulleted format, but ensure that any bulleted material is explained clearly. Your team contract must be agreed upon by all team members, which means that all members should be involved in every step of its development, and you will need to arrive at a consensus about its final contents. You do not need to sign your contract before you submit it; simply acknowledge that every member has read it, understands it, and agrees to abide by it.
This is an ungraded assignment that is due by the end of the second lesson of the course (Sunday at 11:59 p.m. ET). Please upload your team contract and the instructor will provide feedback after he or she reviews it. The peer evaluation that you complete at the end of the course must be consistent with what is stated in your team contract. The instructor will refer to your contract in the event that he or she detects problems while analyzing your peer evaluation.
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