Reflection for The Team-Building Day
1.0 Introduction
As a part of the welcome week for the program MSc in Management, the faculty brought all the participants to Rydal Hall to practice team building skills and learn from all the relevant team activities. Throughout the day, the author teamed up with the other five participants (including Chantal Dennis-Soto, Jordan Fry, Lily Hsun Pei, Xiaoxu Li, Wai Sum Sit) to proceed all the activities.
In this article, the author will mainly apply Tuckman's five-stages model to evaluate the effectiveness of time building of two team activities (including Disc World and designing the team t-shirts). Furthermore, the author will attempt to propose solutions regarding the improvement of cooperation effectiveness …show more content…
As a result, the team reached the Performing stage quickly. In this session, the Norming stage was the most fundamental stage, since Chantal Dennis-Soto introduced a set of applicable methods for the game and her leadership created a strong coherence inside the team. Likewise, the clear and simple internal communication assisted the team to a great extent.
3.1 The leadership style of Chantal Dennis-Soto
To analyze the leadership of Chantal Dennis-Soto, here, Peretomode’s four leadership styles model (2012) is a suitable theoretical model which refers to the scale of how leaders supporting and directing the members, illustrated as below.
Chantal Dennis-Soto apparently adopted the Coaching style, as she created a simplified method and behaved as a leader, in the meantime, she participated in the game and played a supportive role to the comrades in the team.
3.3 Team Performance …show more content…
Since this session started, the team has already in the Potential Team stage, as it had gone through Tuckman’s Forming and Norming stages. After practices, the team had rapidly reached the stage of High-Performance Team.
4.0 Designing team t-shirts
In the session of designing a team t-shirt, Jordan Fry took the role as a leader and decision-maker who compose a design with impressive speed. However, due to the insistence of other teammates to modify the design, he adopted their advice. But after a while, he changed the logo back to the original one. So as a new team leader, he failed to proceed the decision-making process efficiently.
4.1 Resistance to change
Quast (2017) summarized that the causes are individuals’ fear of the unknown and mistrust etc. Here, Jordan Fry failed to proceed the decision-making process efficiently, he kept wavering between different ideas. And finally, he refused to make any
1.0 Introduction
As a part of the welcome week for the program MSc in Management, the faculty brought all the participants to Rydal Hall to practice team building skills and learn from all the relevant team activities. Throughout the day, the author teamed up with the other five participants (including Chantal Dennis-Soto, Jordan Fry, Lily Hsun Pei, Xiaoxu Li, Wai Sum Sit) to proceed all the activities.
In this article, the author will mainly apply Tuckman's five-stages model to evaluate the effectiveness of time building of two team activities (including Disc World and designing the team t-shirts). Furthermore, the author will attempt to propose solutions regarding the improvement of cooperation effectiveness …show more content…
As a result, the team reached the Performing stage quickly. In this session, the Norming stage was the most fundamental stage, since Chantal Dennis-Soto introduced a set of applicable methods for the game and her leadership created a strong coherence inside the team. Likewise, the clear and simple internal communication assisted the team to a great extent.
3.1 The leadership style of Chantal Dennis-Soto
To analyze the leadership of Chantal Dennis-Soto, here, Peretomode’s four leadership styles model (2012) is a suitable theoretical model which refers to the scale of how leaders supporting and directing the members, illustrated as below.
Chantal Dennis-Soto apparently adopted the Coaching style, as she created a simplified method and behaved as a leader, in the meantime, she participated in the game and played a supportive role to the comrades in the team.
3.3 Team Performance …show more content…
Since this session started, the team has already in the Potential Team stage, as it had gone through Tuckman’s Forming and Norming stages. After practices, the team had rapidly reached the stage of High-Performance Team.
4.0 Designing team t-shirts
In the session of designing a team t-shirt, Jordan Fry took the role as a leader and decision-maker who compose a design with impressive speed. However, due to the insistence of other teammates to modify the design, he adopted their advice. But after a while, he changed the logo back to the original one. So as a new team leader, he failed to proceed the decision-making process efficiently.
4.1 Resistance to change
Quast (2017) summarized that the causes are individuals’ fear of the unknown and mistrust etc. Here, Jordan Fry failed to proceed the decision-making process efficiently, he kept wavering between different ideas. And finally, he refused to make any