Exercise - Client Project Team Management

Objective: Learn more about your teammates' strengths, discuss your similarities and differences, and identify possible opportunities for excellence and areas of conflict that may arise due to your different personalities. By discussing these topics with your team, you can approach your group work with a better professional understanding of how you can work together and ways your teammates may contribute.

Instructions:

1. Complete the class reading on Enneagrams and complete the Enneagram personality test.
2. Like you did for GP1 and GP2, spend some time getting to know your client project teammates and learn about each others' Enneagram types. In your first team meeting, allocate a few minutes to have a short discussion around the strengths, stressors, insights, opportunities for excellences, and potential conflict of your team.
3. Make a copy of this Google Doc Links to an external site.so that you can document your discussion using the following prompts: 
   • Strengths - Go around the group and each person talk about your Enneagram type and how it speaks to your strengths on teams. List each person's name, type, and strength,
   • Stressors - Then go around and have each person briefly discuss what tends to stress you out based on your personality and work style.  List these by each person.
   • Insights - Reflect on what you have learned about your team's strengths and stressors.
   • Potential Opportunities for Excellence - Discuss where potential opportunities for excellence may arise in your group based on your Enneagram types.
   • Potential Conflict - While appreciating everyone's talents and strengths, discuss where potential conflicts could arise in this group based on your Enneagram types.  TIP: Google how your Enneagram type conflicts with someone else's Enneagram type.
   • Conflict Management Plan - Based on the conflict discussion, 1) figure out how you'll work to minimize conflict and 2) how you'll discuss and handle issues that could arise. Remember the SBI framework from Day 2, and be sure to follow this plan before approaching your professor.
4. Once you have completed your analysis, take a picture or screenshot or export your Google document of what you recorded in the group exercise above. Upload the document (picture or .docx) to this assignment on Canvas. This exercise is due by 5pm on Sep 29th.

Assessment/Grading:

• We want you to apply what you learned in the reading to the best of your abilities. The more effort you put into this exercise, the more you will learn. 
• This exercise is graded to assess the extent to which you considered the Enneagram types of your team members and how the types could impact opportunities for excellence and potential conflict. Please refer to the attached grading rubric for more details.