Chapter 12: Managing Team Dynamics and Conflict on Student Project Teams

This chapter provides tools and resources that will enable you to better support team dynamics through specific faculty roles and strategies. You’ll learn approaches that you can use to create highly functional teams, manage and facilitate conflict, evaluate team dynamics, and encourage and support project teams.

“Project Team Dynamics”
This PowerPoint—titled “Project Team Dynamics: Looking in the Mirror” —was presented by Charlie Morse, associate dean for student development and director of counseling, at WPI’s Summer Institute for Project-Based Learning to demonstrate some of the issues that can disrupt teams and provide suggestions to minimize them.