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outline for **Improving team processes** I only cover the Entry of New Members and Task and Maintenance Leadership parts I also cover some examples for the 5 teams

slide 1) __Entry of New Members __ Difficult: Member first get together in new group or team When new member join existing one

The new member may worry about the Participation, Goals, Control, and Relationship. “Will I be allowed to participate?”; “Do I share same goals as others?”, “How close do people get?”, “Are conflicts likely to be upsetting?”.

slide 2) picture For example for __the Heat, Lebron James__, Cavalier’s star player, who left the organization and went to play for the Miami Heat. Maybe his high participation will make other members dislike and envy him. He has to build his new relationship with the team. Also for example for the __L.A. Clippers, Blake Griffi__n, considered as the new player, he might worry about the participation and goals.

__Task and Maintenance Leadership__

To improve performance, the distributed leadership, task activities, and maintenance activities is need. Even though anyone who is formally appointed as team leader should help fulfill these needs, all members should also contribute helpful activities. • Distributed leadership: – Is sharing of responsibilities for contributions that move a group forward • Task activities: – various things members do that directly contribute to the performance of important group tasks • Maintenance activities: – support the social and interpersonal relationships among group members – It helps team stay intact and healthy as an ongoing and well-functioning social system. – Team member can contribute maintenance leadership by encouraging the participation of others, trying to harmonize differences of opinion, and praising the contributions of others.

Slide 4) picture For example, __Greg Popovich, the Coach in San Antonio Spurs__, he displays excellent distributive leadership. Based on his leadership in San Antonio Spurs, the task activities and maintenance activities are doing well. You can see the different between this coach and others, during his leading, the NBA Championships is 4, the playoff appearances is 13 and the division titles is 7.

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The leading by task contribution is important to NBA team because For example, the __New York Knicks__, they have exchange some better players, so they have make some improvement in NBA. To get higher % to win, getting some research, and understand the competitive team’s shortcoming and advantage will help them improve.

The leading by maintenance contributions In an effective group, maintenance activities support the relationships needed for team members to work well together over time.

For example, __Cavaliers__, in 2010 held one of the NBA's best records. Since the 2010 season Lebron James left the organization. The year following Lebron's departure from the team, The Cavaliers went from being one of the NBA's elite teams, to a bottom feeder. As you can see, maintenance activities take important role in the team. Losing Lebron James, their team cooperation is falling apart.

Slide 6) __Avoiding disruptive behaviors that harm group process__ 1) Being overly aggressive toward other members a. If the team member doing this, it’s easy to make the whole team divide into small group. 2) Withdrawing and refusing to cooperate with others a. Some people might think you are selfish, self-esteem, or having problems. In the future, it will be hard to find the opportunity to participate in other team or group. 3) Horsing around when there is work to be done a. It’s bad because one might waste the time when they’re practice the basketball skills. 4) Using the group as a forum for self-confession a. If other people knowing that, they might be unhappy with that because one is not respect to their team. 5) Talking too much about irrelevant matters a. Also, it’s wasting time 6) Trying to compete for attention and recognition a. If overly to do this, other team member might start feeling uncomfortable, they might push someone out from a group to isolate him.

-So, it’s important to avoid this kind of disruptive behaviors.