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Teamwork in Crisis Jerry Jones, a second-year learning teammentor, stared at his notes again. His interaction with the teamlast night confirmed what he suspected. Only three weeks into thefirst year of an BSc. program at a big-name school in Barbados, thelearning team was in trouble. From his own experience the yearbefore, Jones knew that a first-rate learning team made a hugedifference in a student’s first-year experience. The corollary wasalso true: a bad or difficult learning team experience could taintthe entire first-year school experience. Although Jones wanted tohelp, he was not at all sure how to do so. Perhaps describing thesituation to his fellow peer mentors in his second-year electiveclass on managing teams would draw out some good ideas. In hismind, Jones could hear himself explain the story: Let me firstdescribe the team members. Essentially, they were all around 26years of age, athletic, and had professional backgrounds in financeor economics. I’ll start with Bobby Bromfield, who was aself-professed introvert and who was passionate about the ReggaeBoys Football team from Jamaica. Professionally, Bloomfield workedas a financial analyst for a few different firms. He had nottraveled outside Barbados much over the past few years. With plansto target investment banking firms for his summer internship,Bloomfield had been spending a lot of nights networking withbanking alumni and recruiters. Jeff King was from Barbados. Heworked for Intel in Bridgetown for six years before pursuing hisfirst degree. King spoke fluent English and was a huge cricket fan.He followed his favorite team passionately and was also veryinvolved in the informal Barbadian club at the school and plannedto make his favorite dish for the International Food Festival thisyear. After graduation, King wanted to pursue a career inconsulting and hoped to get sponsored for a visa to live and workin the United States permanently. Joy Gordon was the only woman onthe learning team and came from a mixed-race family. In 2002,Gordon was awarded the crown for Miss Jamaica and had been MissJamaica Teen in 1999. She worked as an analyst for a privatefoundation. Gordon planned to focus her career on private wealth.Despite the great amount of networking that her chosen career pathrequired, Gordon was very involved in the school community. Shespent a lot of time working on projects for the Black BusinessStudent Forum and the National Association of Women. Keith Jameswas originally from Nigeria and had been living in Barbados formore than 10 years. James worked as a policy research analyst forthe government of Barbados, then changed career paths and worked asa real estate analyst.
1. Identify at least 3 current team norms? What do you think theteam should add to its norms list (add at least five more) andjustify your claim.