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My first soccer team Occasionally friends become similar to a family. One of the best decisions have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. I didn't know at the time how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. Assuming I knew beforehand, I would have joined earlier. To start, I was ridiculously excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer though I was a little…

In the article Building Effective Teams in Real Time, Garfield and Stanton (2005) share helpful tools to follow for efficient team building. This article is addressed to managers who may need tips on how to bring better communication to their employees. They discuss six ideas in an approach they call rapid team building. I agree with the authors in the importance of getting to know the team members, and learning about their past successes. While being an employee, I have observed a lack of vison…

areas of interest. We have found that we have surprising similarities and working styles. It has helped me to understand his goals and be able to advocate for him with senior management and plan for his development on projects that I am managing. The added benefit of working on the same team allows me to help him on a day to day basis and be able to track the work he is doing and help motivate him to track and log the various design stages for his professional registration. Having a…

family’s responses centered around the idea that my hard work ethnic inspires them to follow my lead and try to meet the goals that I set out for the group. Many of my respondents highlighted these attributes through the extensive campus improvement projects I did as Junior Class President, my revival of the once dormant Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) and the…

William is in heavy contrast: works best in team tasks, prefers physical activity, adapts well to changing tasks, and likes to take breaks. I’m not able to get a great read about Jake’s work ethics due to conflicts between him and the rest of the team, so often I found it best to have him work individually on important, repetitive, informational tasks. He’s primarily about efficiency, so he doesn’t take breaks. Discovering the best method of managing my team has been the most educational…

causing the Client Education team to lose money instead of earn it. Opportunity. The Premier Pass program needed to be justified. Leadership was requesting a year over year return on investment for Cerner based on actual costs for the Client Education team. Only the…

about hearing feedback, helping to work through the inevitable difficult conversations we would face. We then compared the team processes, as outlined in our contract, to our descriptive patterns of interaction and identified the necessary improvements. Finally, we highlighted each team member’s positive contributions and outlined new opportunities for individual improvement. TEAM MISSION AND CULTURE We, the members of Chester F73524, believe that we have successfully upheld our common purpose…

park or establishment suitable for such activities. The manager’s job here, is to choose activities that targets the strengths and weaknesses of the workers. These activities would provide a situation in which teams must coordinate to finish a set goal, by trusting and depending on all team members throughout the…

Zennell Weddle MARK 104 Utilizing Team Dynamics to Maximize Results “Everybody need somebody”. (Blues Brothers) “Teamwork: Simply stated it is less me and more we.” So with that being said communication is the key to success. Communication is the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else.(Webster dictionary) Without communication nothing would function correctly. Animals,…

Cohesive Teams According to Bruce Tuckman’s research into group dynamics, he developed ‘Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development’, wherein concluded that there are five stages that teams experience during either the lifespan of the team, if it is a temporary team, or the task, if it is a permanent team. The theory relates to how teams become less formal and more focussed as the team progresses towards goals and members gain focus. These stages are as follows: Forming During this stage the team…