Resources to develop teamwork

Targeted Learning Outcomes: Teamwork and cultural awareness

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Goal of this section: To reflect upon your own identities, assets, and communication and conflict styles. To think about how your identities, assets, and styles might influence how you understand, approach, and think about the project topic, and how you interact on teams.

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Instructions

1.     Map your assets:

Asset mapping is an approach often used in community development, in which a community identifies its assets, and then builds upon and leverages these assets to solve community problems, like hunger or access to clean water or affordable energy.

Create a “map” of your assets (identities, skills, interests, experiences) that you will bring to a team, to the analysis of problems, and to the development of solutions. Note your assets in the following categories:

•       team and project skills

•       personal background and culture;

•       clubs, organizations, and sports

•       technical expertise

•       passions and interests;

•       relevant experiences;

•       related coursework and jobs;

•       creativity (music, arts, etc.).

You can also add categories as you see fit.

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You can use the free mapping program bubbl.us (https://bubbl.us/) or another mapping program. You must include your actual map in your assignment submission. See a sample asset map below for an example.

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2.     What skills, strengths, knowledge, and experiences you would like to build upon and add to your asset map during this class and/or project work? Choose three.

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3.     Create a Word or other document with your asset map image and a list of the three areas you would like to grow in during this class and/or project work (skills, abilities, strengths, knowledge, experiences). You will share and discuss this with your team during your first meeting.

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Three areas to grow in:

1.  Evidence-based writing

2.  Research design

3.  Being less passive on a team