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Teamwork Through Team Building: Face-to-Face to Online

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, julie.staggers{at}unlv.edu

Susan Garcia

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, garci296{at}unlv.nevada.edu

Ed Nagelhout

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, ed.nagelhout@unlv .nevada.edu

This article describes the ways the authors incorporated team-building activities into our online business writing courses by interrogating the ways that kinesthetic learning translates into the electronic realm. The authors review foundational theories of team building, including Cog's Ladder and Tuckman's Stages, and offer sample exercises they have converted. The authors show how the medium affects the exercises, how the choices made as teachers affect the exercises, and how they adjusted to meet the needs of their students. The authors argue that teamwork most successfully occurs after team building, and too often this team building is lacking in online environments.

Key Words: teamwork • business writing • online environments

Business Communication Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 4, 472-487 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1080569908325862


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