Identify, contact, and engage a real-life group or team and conduct a team development exercise. Then, write a team development plan and post-session summary based on your  team session.

· Demonstrate your ability to facilitate a team in building capacity towards becoming a learning organization.

· Analyze the use of specific change management learning disciplines in a team setting.

These two assessments will be based on a pair of team development sessions that you will facilitate with a real-world group of about five individuals.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

· Competency 1: Apply change management interventions.

. Describe a team development exercise used with a team, based on a relevant learning discipline.

. Describe a team development experience based on a relevant learning discipline.

. Explain lessons learned for chosen discipline and group dynamics.

· Competency 2: Analyze applications of change management principles.

. Define change management and change management principles.

. Explain the learning disciplines of personal mastery, mental models, and shared vision.

. Explain the process used to select a learning discipline and the rationale for its selection.

. Explain successful and unsuccessful aspects of team development.

. Explain lessons learned for planned and unplanned team facilitation journeys.

Submit your first team exercise plan and post-session summary based on your completed team session.

Plan your first team exercise and write a team development plan for your first session. Your exercise for this session should be based on one of the following three disciplines identified by Senge:

· Personal mastery.

· Mental models.

· Shared vision.

Facilitate the first team development session, addressing the following:

· Define change management and the first three disciplines: personal mastery, mental models, and shared vision.

· Explain the learning discipline you have chosen and why it is important.

· Explain how you will use the organizational team development material (the exercise) during the session.

· Briefly introduce the problem or issue the team will work through, using the exercise.

· While conducting the exercise, take copious notes. Record the session, if possible.