Critical Thinking Skills

Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

Consider how your contributions to this discussion will demonstrate critical thinking. This Critical Thinking Skills website can help you with this and future Key Question discussions.

1. Read and review the content resources.
2. Research and select at least one additional credible source that adds to your knowledge on key question/prompt. 

Write an initial response to the following key question(s) or prompt(s):

1. The process by which groups of people develop and improve working relationships and functions is known as team development. It is a process designed to help members distinguish the impact of group dynamics with regards to effective teamwork and provides a forum to develop strategies and skills to improve team performance. Consultants use variations of action research to ensure positive team development…to help them understand the dynamics of teams, leadership and its effect on the pursuit of organizational goals…[Effective] team development efforts facilitate the creation of effective communication and processes. (Taylor Training & Development, n.d., para. 7)
   Reflecting on your DBA team’s relationships and functionality, in light of the OD concepts and tools you have become familiar with as part of this problem-based learning course, will enable you to practically discern how effective and efficient the team operates and how well the team members relate to one another. 
2. From an OD practitioner perspective, diagnose your DBA team, incorporating what you have learned about using OD concepts and tools to include the multiframe perspective used during the consulting engagement in this course [Bolman & Deal’s (2017) Four-Frame Model, the Virtuous Business Model © IWU, and the adaptation of the Comprehensive Model for Diagnosing Organizational Systems by Cummings & Worley (2009), as cited in AIHRA Digital, n.d., 2. Diagnostics section]. Write the response in the form of diagnostic feedback to the team.
3. Using the diagnostic feedback for the team from above, design a robust intervention strategy to include a SMART action plan for implementation, evaluation, and reinforcement initiatives.