From: Conna Condon [mailto:
gandolf@cyberverse.com]
Hello,
I am a doctoral candidate in the depths of my dissertation proposal
writing.
The topic is: External Leadership of Project Teams. In particular,
the
tools and behaviors of the faculty person in providing leadership to the
project teams in their business courses which require group project
work.
As part of the dissertation I am developing a toolset of templates and
instructions for the faculty and for the students. I have searched for
all of the toolsets in business and academic research. However, I
suspect (because I have my own that I use when I teach), that there are
more tools in use out there and there might be a best practice tool in
use by one of you that just hasn't been empirically tested yet.
I am considering making the toolset available for use from a website on
the request that the assessments are used and submitted so that I can
include the results in my results database. (Might not be in the
dissertation,
since it would be an uncontrolled population). Would anyone be
interested
in using such a site? The idea is for the toolset to be useable
without
requiring course time to use it. It will be structured for use by
either online or face-to-face classes.
If anyone has a tool and instruction they currently use that they feel
is being very effective and that they are willing to share, I would
appreciate the opportunity of including it in the development of the
toolset that will be used in the dissertation testing.
If there is an element of the project team process that you wish
somebody would include in a cohesive test, I'd appreciate hearing about
that. Included so far is: team assignment, vision, project definition
(scope), task assignment, establishing rules and norms, establishing
communications, progress reviewing / conflict resolution, progress
reporting, assessment / grading.
I appreciate any information anyone is willing to share
Conna Condon
Doctoral Candidate
Nova SouthEastern U.
gandolf@cyberverse.com