Project team

Monday October 19th in the University Centre at the University of Guelph was a very interesting learning experience for students in the “Introduction to Business” course. It was an educational experience in many ways such as learning to work as a team, working with the public, learning personal responsibility and understanding how a business works. In that sense, the day was a success because it showed how much work and coordination goes into making a business prosper and showed the…

avoiding, and collaborating. For example, my current team has two individuals with two strong personalities who are clearly competing for who is always has the answer, who is always right, the first to speak, etc. There is a person on the team who does not participate in coming up with ideas to help make our team have a boost in moral. This person does not speak up and when asked a question, they shrug their shoulders. The rest of the team fall under the style of collaborating by taking in…

big team with a great group of friends in middle school and we were one of the best teams in the state. I was one of the defensive players on the team. Defensive positions are some of the most important on the field because they organize and control the position and movements of the whole team during games. Playing in this position helped start a foundation for my leadership skills but the biggest lesson I learned during the next season. Our team was changing completely because another team was…

As the world becomes a smaller place, more companies are utilizing team-based structures in order to effectively respond to a constantly shifting global economy. Teams comprise of two or more individuals who, working together, produce results greater than the sum of each individual members’ input. However, although the advantages in flexibility teams have over individuals helps them better compete globally, team-based structures still possess several disadvantages, including issues with conflict…

that I was unable to meet a goal that was given to me by my superiors. But, while it was difficult to get past, I learned several significant lessons from this project. The first was the importance of being able to create an environment that is similar to what exists during integrative bargaining (Fossum, 2008). The goal of the project team was to increase the rate of payment to 90% in order to ensure that continued productivity of the program. While the goal of the employees working in the…

The Calvin Knights football team has been undefeated since 1879. How is this spectacular feat possible? It has to do with the fact that Calvin does not actually have a football team. And I for one, believe it should stay that way. Despite the many sports fans at Calvin who crave one of America’s favorite past times, the school has yet to assemble a team. Both the Calvin board and others, including me, worry that creating a football team is not in the school’s best interest. The main reason…

The store’s difficult problems end up in the hands of the customer service team. We coordinate even exchanges that cheat the online system, sort through millions of options to find specific codes for items on the decrepit database, figure out ways to diffuse an angry customer before they explode, damage out five-year-old pillows…

I had never been more exhausted in my life. I experienced a realization during one of the largest soccer games of my life. My team was facing a very respected team that had been the victors against us for the past six years. We had been taking pressure the entire game and at one point they were up by four goals. The game was as if they knocked my team down and stepped over us, again and again. Then, they scored a another goal. I knew there was little hope for the game to go in my favor. Right…

Looking at my poster, there is a variety of objects that appear to have nothing in common. What they do have in common is me. Brainstorming for this project was difficult because I thought there would be no way that a poster could summarize my life. But, as I was putting the poster together, I realized it wasn’t very hard to condense me as a person to a sheet of paper with objects on it. I chose objects that have to do with things i’m involved in or that represent who I am. I chose to include…

and professional lives we are part of many groups and teams. How we navigate and participate in them directly affects the success or failure of each. The purpose of this section is to discuss key knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to facilitate the best possible outcomes for teams working in a professional capacity as a classmate, co-worker, or community member. Three basic areas will be examined; how to function effectively as a team, personal skills conducive to being a productive…