Personal Narrative: Working As Part Of A Team

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Describe an experience you have had working as part of a team, the role you played, and how the team resolved any challenges to working together. What was key to making the team successful? 1,000 word limit.

Describe a difficult situation or set-back you have experienced and what you learned from it. 1,000 word limit.

When I started college I was a Music Technology major at Capital University. I finished my first semester and music was still a passion. I was excited going into my second semester to learn more. Before the end of the second semester I started realizing some things about the music industry, and about myself. I knew the music industry was competitive, but I didn’t know the true scale of it. For example, a sound engineer
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We are a chapter of a nonprofit organization that raises money for people recovering from eating disorders. Most people's medical insurance does not cover the full treatment; so many people do not fully recover. We raise most of our money primarily through our gala we have annually. At this gala we have speakers, food, and have a huge raffle. It takes a lot of preparation and work, for a team of very few people. Last year was our first gala, which came with some challenges among the excitement. Our biggest challenge was being spread too thin, with such few people putting on a large …show more content…
All in all, our first gala was an extreme success and we raised over $12,000 for ProjectHeal. The challenges we faced were persevered with hard work and encouraging fellow members. From dividing the work between each other we had more freedom and flexibility on how we could accomplish our individual tasks. With everyone’s busy schedule, I think being a small team worked to our advantage. From being an organization less than a year old and accomplishing so much from what we thought was so little, we are heading into this years gala with bigger goals and a confident

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