Analysing Work Groups - A Reflection

Reflection Paper #3 – Analysing Work Groups


Application:
I will be discussing a past experience I had upon assuming a leadership position in an established business area that was new to me. I will use the Model for Analysing a Work Group as a way to convey my experience and relate it to the learning experience from week 3.
The challenge I had was to lead an established program team to improved performance and to motivate them to create new business opportunities. The system that the team supports has never gone through any improvements and the last 15 years has been only sustainment efforts. The physical environment was such that the team was located 2 miles away from the main facility. The team is constrained to a closed area due to a secret security classification. There have been no updates to the physical location since the program began and the condition of the facility was in poor shape.
The social environment consisted of systems engineers, software engineers ...