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1.3. Team Selection and Leadership<br />

Often, in a course, you will have limited say about who participates and who does not. However,<br />

you can decide which students are on which teams and who will have which roles on these teams.<br />

These are important issues, for the ability of team members to work together is the most<br />

important single factor in determining team success. Thus, if you do not know the students<br />

personally, you should get help from someone who does know them.<br />

Start by selecting those students you think will make the best leaders; then decide which<br />

engineers to put with each of these leaders. In doing so, try to form balanced and compatible<br />

teams. Often, in fact, the students themselves can help in deciding how to compose the teams. In<br />

this process, the most important step is to select motivated and capable team leaders. This topic is<br />

described in more detail in Chapter 5.<br />

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Contents List of Forms Tool Instructions<br />

Copyright 2000 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. All rights reserved<br />

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