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Balanced Assignment 3: JGR Fantasy Team Due Week 7 and worth 125 points.   Introduction Over the last few weeks, youve learned how to start identifying the roles and skills needed to build an effective team. You’ve also discovered methods for selecting and evaluating potential candidates. Now it’s time to put your team-building techniques into practice by participating in a case study with real employees from Joe Gibbs Racing! Imagine that you work at JGR. The CEO has tasked you with being the Team Leader for a committee that will plan a one-day summer team-building retreat. All JGR employees will be attending the event.  The purpose of the retreat is to foster unity, trust and cohesion between the organization’s employees. The event will start with a welcome/introduction, then everyone will break out into group team-building sessions. The whole team will reconvene for a company-wide lunch, followed by a keynote speech. As the Team Leader for the event planning committee, your job is to choose 4 other JGR employees to be on your committee.  You may choose from 10 pre-selected candidates. You can learn about your candidates by viewing this week’s Strayer Story and by reviewing their profiles below. JGR’s Chief Operating Officer Coy Gibbs is taking the same challenge! Next week, once you’ve completed the assignment, we’ll feature a video of Coy revealing who he chose for his fantasy team and you can compare your results to his. Instructions Step 1: Download the JGR Fantasy Team Worksheet and save it to your computer. Step 2: Watch the Strayer Talk: Building Your Team: Finding the Right Balance. Step 3: Follow the directions in Parts 1-2 of the worksheet to complete the assignment. Step 4: Save your document as FirstInitial_LastName_JGR200_ A3. Step 5: Submit your assignment using the Week 7 assignment link in Blackboard. Formatting: This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).​ (Note: You’ll be prompted to enter your Blackboard login credentials to view these standards.)The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. You can also find a link to the SWS in the Blackboard side menu or Assignment Areas. Course Connections: While completing this assignment, be sure to connect your responses to the course content you’ve learned so far. Wait! Before you submit your assignment, did you…   · Review the scoring guide? The scoring guide will give you a clear understanding of the assignment’s expectations. If you are unclear on what is expected of you, please reach out to your instructor for support. · Check your assignment for grammatical errors? · Review what you’ve written for clarity?   · Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions?   Scoring Guide Assignment 3:   Criteria Exemplary 90-100\% A Proficient 80-89\% B Fair 70-79\% C Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69\% D Unacceptable Below 60\% F 1. Select a candidate for each of the four roles and justify your selection.   Weight: 30\% Selects a candidate for each role and justifies selection with clarity and excellence. Selects a candidate for each role and  justifies the selection proficiently. Selects a candidate for each role and justifies the selection satisfactorily OR selects less than all candidates for the roles and only justifies 2-3 selections. Selects a candidate for fewer than four roles and insufficiently justifies the selections OR only selects 1-2 candidates for the roles and/or  does not justify any selections. Insufficiently completed or did not submit. 2. Explain and justify your role as team leader.   Weight: 15\% Explains and justifies role as team leader with clarity and excellence. Explains and justifies role as team leader proficiently. Explains and justifies role as team leader satisfactorily. Insufficiently explains and justifies role as team leader. Insufficiently completed d or did not submit. 3. Outline your skills and personality traits needed to be an effective team leader. Weight:  15\% Outlines skills and personality traits with clarity and excellence. Outlines skills and personality traits proficiently. Outlines skills and personality traits satisfactorily. Insufficiently outlines skills and personality traits. Insufficiently completed or did not submit. 4. Explain how each of the team members’ strengths you chose complements you. Weight:  25\% Explains how each of the team members complements them with clarity and excellence. Explains how each of the team members complements them with proficiency. Explains how each of the team members complements them satisfactorily. Insufficiently explains how each of the team members complements them. Insufficiently completed or did not submit. 5. Write in a professional manner using proper grammar and spelling.   Weight: 10\% Writing is excellent. Tone is professional and sophisticated. Shows logic, clarity, and consistent formatting.   Contains no spelling or grammar errors.   Writing is mostly good. Tone is professional. Shows logic, clarity, and consistent formatting.   May contain few or no spelling and/or grammatical errors. Writing is satisfactory.   Tone is somewhat professional.   Shows moderate logic, clarity, and/or consistent formatting.   May contain 2-4 spelling and/or grammatical errors.   Writing meets minimal standards.   Tone is not professional. Lacks one or more of logic, clarity, and/or consistent formatting. May contain more than 4 spelling and/or grammatical errors. Writing does not meet minimal standards.   Tone is not professional.   Wholly lacking in logic, clarity, and/or consistent formatting. Contains many spelling and/or grammatical errors.   2 JGR Fantasy Team Worksheet REMEMBER to watch the Strayer Talk: Building Your Team: Finding the Right Balance before completing this worksheet! Part 1: Select Your Team Members There are FOUR open positions on your Team. Below we’ve listed each role and described their responsibilities. 1. LOGISTICS: This person is responsible for coordinating the nuts and bolts of the event: from scheduling to arranging travel to making sure there’s food on the table at lunchtime... just to name a few! The logistics person needs to be able to multitask and be organized, proactive, efficient, polite, and calm under pressure. They have to anticipate all the needs of the day while at the same being able to adjust and resolve any unexpected problems. It’s a challenging role, but a tremendously satisfying for the right person. 2. BUDGETING: This is the numbers job, the person responsible for keeping track of all the costs of the event and making sure expenses don’t exceed the amount of funds in the budget. This person needs to have excellent math skills as well as being precise and detail-oriented. They may be called upon to problem-solve financially, so they can’t be too rigid in their approach to situations, but at the end of they day, they need to be a stickler for numbers. 3. PROGRAMMING: This person is in charge of what participants take away from the event. They’ll research, write and plan the activities for the small group team-building sessions, as well as determine who will be the keynote speaker and what that person should speak about. The programming head needs to be a creative thinker who can come up with interesting, relatable and practical ideas that will make the event worthwhile and memorable. 0. MC/HOST: This person is the “face” of the event. They will be manning the microphone beginning with the introduction at the start of the day, and guiding participants from one activity to the next with clear, concise direction. This person should be a “people person” and enjoy interacting with the public, and an excellent communicator, able to speak off the cuff in a smart, clear way -- even if something during the event shifts last-minute. Once you’ve read carefully through the roles, meet your candidates!  You can learn about your 10 potential team members’ skills, strengths and personalities  in this weeks Strayer Story.   To help you remember who’s who, you can also reference their profiles below. JGR EMPLOYEE PROFILES: Once you’ve looked over all the profiles, select the best candidate for each of the following four positions. Don’t forget to consider what skills you bring to the table and select people who can pitch in on the things you find challenging. After you select your candidate, justify your selection by explaining how your choice’s particular skills and personality will help them perform their role successfully and, where applicable, how they complement your strengths and skills. 1. Who would you select to run LOGISTICS? Why? 2. Who would you select to oversee BUDGET? Why? 3. Who would be your choice to run PROGRAMMING? Why? 4. Which candidate do you think would make the best MC/HOST? Why? Part 2: Where Do You Fit In? 1. What will you be responsible for as Team Leader? What will you handle personally, and what will you delegate to other members of your team? Explain and justify your response.  Be specific. 2. In 3-5 sentences, outline what skills and personal strengths you have that will help you to be an effective Team Leader. 3. Think about your personal DiSC assessment results from Course 1. How do these team members’ strengths complement yours? What skills and/or personality traits do they have that will help your team in areas where you feel challenged? Conversely, what strengths do YOU have that can make up for duties your team members may find challenging?  Explain your answer in 3 paragraphs or less. 2