Introduction
Team 3, also known as team ‘Shnikes’ in the Markstrat simulation, have been assigned to this group by the PMBA department management. The members of our team come from very diverse backgrounds, both professionally and culturally. The professional expertise in our group varies from Accounting and Business Marketing to Biology, Computer Science, and Engineering. Working in this team has been a great journey, filled with multiple opportunities for collaboration, experimentation, information sharing, reflection, and by the end of the semester, for becoming a real team. In the course of this final assessment we will review our performance as a team , while reflecting on one critical strength and one critical weakness, then discussing their causes and consequences of each. We will also provide further recommendations to improve the critical weakness of our team.
Strength- Leadership
One of the most dominating strengths of our team is in …show more content…
We each discussed what we are hoping to gain both personally and professionally and discussed areas that we each hoped to improve. With that information in mind, we concentrated heavily on task-focused leadership. We began by directing our efforts on getting organized. Every team meeting began with debriefing and reflecting the results from the previous periods simulation run. We then would lay out the agenda for that day, make decisions as a group, and conclude each meeting with the closing comments and possible ideas for the next round of decisions. We monitored the process closely. We constantly asked questions like, “is our team living up to our full potential?” and “are we moving towards the goals that the team set when we created our original team contract?” As we would answer these questions, it would help us see if we were working well as a team and where we could better
Team 3, also known as team ‘Shnikes’ in the Markstrat simulation, have been assigned to this group by the PMBA department management. The members of our team come from very diverse backgrounds, both professionally and culturally. The professional expertise in our group varies from Accounting and Business Marketing to Biology, Computer Science, and Engineering. Working in this team has been a great journey, filled with multiple opportunities for collaboration, experimentation, information sharing, reflection, and by the end of the semester, for becoming a real team. In the course of this final assessment we will review our performance as a team , while reflecting on one critical strength and one critical weakness, then discussing their causes and consequences of each. We will also provide further recommendations to improve the critical weakness of our team.
Strength- Leadership
One of the most dominating strengths of our team is in …show more content…
We each discussed what we are hoping to gain both personally and professionally and discussed areas that we each hoped to improve. With that information in mind, we concentrated heavily on task-focused leadership. We began by directing our efforts on getting organized. Every team meeting began with debriefing and reflecting the results from the previous periods simulation run. We then would lay out the agenda for that day, make decisions as a group, and conclude each meeting with the closing comments and possible ideas for the next round of decisions. We monitored the process closely. We constantly asked questions like, “is our team living up to our full potential?” and “are we moving towards the goals that the team set when we created our original team contract?” As we would answer these questions, it would help us see if we were working well as a team and where we could better