Dream Team

There are many different beliefs towards what brings us to success. In The Sports Gene by David Epstein, it is explained that innate and physical talents are what allow people to succeed. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explains that effort and practice is what brings us to the top. Epstein and Gladwell both put forth arguments about how much in our lives we control, however, based on evidence Gladwell definitely shows that effort and practice is what we control to make us…

professional individuals at any stage in their career, by combining the Map and a CPD log an HR professional will champion better work ethics and understand the key competence skills. HR professionals are often working with individuals or as part of a team. The framework enables an HR practitioner to develop and keep up to date with the latest legislation and guidance. A practitioner can be enhanced to gain professional help through training, employment relations, policies and procedures,…

The webinar, The Team Equation: Managing Teams that Deliver, had a very interesting viewpoint on how to make teams successful and stick together. There are a few things I have learned from this webinar. One thing I have learned comes from the well-known quote “Two heads are better than one.” I have always thought that this just meant two heads, no matter what two heads they were, are always better than one. However they make a very good point in this webinar that the two heads should be…

football is something that can’t be just described in just a couple of words. When you go to a High School football game in Texas you can see faithful supporters filling the stands which are waving their hands and homemade signs in support of their team. You hear the cheers and screams from the crowd. You can smell the hot dogs, burgers, pizza, pretzels, and popcorn from the concession stands. The marching band playing loud to match the noise and energy of the crowd. This memory could not be…

Well this day goes back to freshman year when I first started to play soccer for East Noble High School and this ends on my senior year, I’ve been playing soccer for 11 years but not for East Noble. I first started out in NASA a soccer program that allowed kids to play and get taught soccer not the space program. This value taught me to always stick with my goals and push every day to do my best at anything I do. Freshman year soccer was an interesting year because my that freshman years was…

Principles of Small Group Communication One of the principles of small group communication is consensus, which is defined as a general agreement and group solidarity of belief or sentiment. Everybody in a group needs to know how important of consensusbecause if we are in consensus as s group, we can achieve the best result at the end of our discussion as s group. Everyone in the group works together to approve and agree on the answer or the solution that conveys within the group. The next…

Working in Teams Name Institution Working in Teams Teamwork plays an imperative role in fostering growth and productivity in an organization. A team consists of people who work together towards a shared goal. Normally, teams ensure that cooperation is enhanced and any king of competition that seeks to divide the employees is minimized. Effective teams are defined by the level of satisfaction on the members, the productivity in an organization, and the commitment of the members to remain…

Managing a project team is actively managing the team to ensure that the work is being done to accomplish a project. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result (Gray, Larson, 2014, pg. 6). The project team actually does the project while the project manager manages the project. Managing human resources is probably one of the most complex areas as people can be unpredictable, can give rise to an expected conflict, the level of their morale can go…

For almost six years I worked for you as the bather of your small pet grooming business. Recently, I have been thinking about the training I received for the job and how it affected me as an employee. I am writing you this letter to explain the aspects of the training that were very effective and how you can continue to leverage them to produce great employees and an overall high-quality service. I also am going to discuss what I think lacked in the training process and how it could be improved…

“Investigating the Relationship between Team Cohesion and Self-Presentation among Different Competitive Team Sports of Ethiopian Universities”, T.A. Haddera (2016) was looking at cohesiveness within a team dynamic, “because it’s not only associated with group level outcomes such as performance but also with individual outcomes.” Again, this reinstates that there is a paradoxical nature to team sports in that you have individuals that then make up the team. When looking at team sports from an…