During week 5, the Army Signals came into Edgehill to demonstrate team-working, leadership and communication skills. All of these skills are required in the real world, and not just within employment.
I found this exercise very interesting, and I was delighted to be involved. The students were split into five teams. The team I was placed in was Gold Command (Strategic Planning). My team was responsible for plotting locations on the map provided and logging all of the information arriving at Gold Command via radio communications from the other four teams.
There were too many students and Limited roles for each student to allow for everyone to have a role and get involved: most students wanted to be the leader and show off their leadership skill …show more content…
this is not too much of an issue within a work environment hierarchy, i.e. supervisor, manager or team leader etcetera because the roles have already been established. However, on a project such as the Army Signals, all of the students are equivalent and no hierarchy had been established, and consequently, designating roles became a difficult task to achieve, because there was not enough time to ascertain each team members strengths and weaknesses, so, therefore, team member roles could not be determined.
Leadership is a delicate balance between telling people what to do and asking them what to do; these are two entirely different things. The former can lead to bitterness were has the later could lead to individuals not doing what there were asked to do, therefore, not getting the task at hand completed.
Within task five, I employed leadership skills gained from previous team leader/manager roles that required teamwork and training roles which allowed me to encourage participation without alienating other team members consequently, gain optimal team
I found this exercise very interesting, and I was delighted to be involved. The students were split into five teams. The team I was placed in was Gold Command (Strategic Planning). My team was responsible for plotting locations on the map provided and logging all of the information arriving at Gold Command via radio communications from the other four teams.
There were too many students and Limited roles for each student to allow for everyone to have a role and get involved: most students wanted to be the leader and show off their leadership skill …show more content…
this is not too much of an issue within a work environment hierarchy, i.e. supervisor, manager or team leader etcetera because the roles have already been established. However, on a project such as the Army Signals, all of the students are equivalent and no hierarchy had been established, and consequently, designating roles became a difficult task to achieve, because there was not enough time to ascertain each team members strengths and weaknesses, so, therefore, team member roles could not be determined.
Leadership is a delicate balance between telling people what to do and asking them what to do; these are two entirely different things. The former can lead to bitterness were has the later could lead to individuals not doing what there were asked to do, therefore, not getting the task at hand completed.
Within task five, I employed leadership skills gained from previous team leader/manager roles that required teamwork and training roles which allowed me to encourage participation without alienating other team members consequently, gain optimal team