Sometimes friends become similar to a family. One of the best things I have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. What I didn't know at the time was how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. To start, I was really excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer but I was a little nervous. I thought about what the other kids would think about me. Would they think…
Porterville High School frosh-off basketball team. I wasn't the best one on the team, but I did my part. I was always intimidated by all the other girls on the team, this intimidation was controlling me, and it wasn't allowing me to be the person, and player I truly was. I was never loud, rough, nor did I ever play dirty so it came as a big surprise when I got into a fight with another player. It was against our rivals the Moanche High School girls basketball team, so the game was already…
the first and second rounds of playoffs, we knocked out a first seeded team (whom we had lost to during our regular season) and a fifth seeded team. For both of these teams, we had a desire to win. We knew we could, we just had to execute it. And we did. We won both of those games, and we went on to the Southern Final. At the Southern Final game, we knew what we had to do to win. We had to work as a unit, outrun the other team, and out work them. Unfortunately, we didn’t. We didn’t work as a…
to coach Tom on time management, job expectations, and determining if he needs more training. Toxic behaviors they are exhibiting The toxic behaviors that Tom is exhibiting is his ability to think beyond himself and think about the people on his team, his customers, and the company. He also fails to ask when he clearly needs help figuring out what his job duties entail. Tom often has excuses about why he cannot give his best in his job. Tom does not complete reports or projects on time, he…
Introduced to the FIRST Robotics Competition Team 3102 in sixth grade by my teacher, I became hooked on the program’s emphasis on improving technology education since day one. I wanted to join a program where the most sought-after award is more important than the first place trophy. In fact, the Chairman’s award, which recognizes the team that successfully develops a program aligning with FIRST’s core values of furthering science and technology education, is the most prestigious honor that can…
Candidate Garnica delivered a five paragraph order that lacked information and used filler words while briefing. She maintained good eye contact with the members of her team and was confident in her delivery. SNC failed to brief any of the "admin and logistics" and "command and signal" paragraphs. Although Candidate Garnica briefed a scheme of maneuver during the brief, it was obvious that she had not created an actual plan before beginning the execution. There was no clear transition between…
competitive. In middle school, we had tryouts, which I wasn’t use to before. Then we were split into two teams: A Team and B Team. When you look at the teams and think, A Team has to stand for the best players, while B Team is the bad players. No, that is not what that means at all. It just means that the players on the A Team had a greater skill level of basketball than the players on the B Team. Therefore, as I entered high school, I knew I wanted to…
When I was 14, I struggled on my soccer team, so I got private sessions with another coach twice a week. I would go out and practice and work over and over again. These trainings were painfully boring, but my coach would simply ask me to do drills over, pointing out mistakes I made as I went. I nearly quit. Towards the end of the season, the C team coach, someone who I didn't know at all, came up and asked me to try playing with him for a game or two. During the games, I started out feeling…
between two teams is always a big deal. The stakes are even higher when this rivalry comes between a city. Rochester Hills is home to two very different colleges, Oakland University and Rochester College. When the two meet it is much like the U of M versus MSU during football season. The RC versus OU hockey matches, known as the Battle of the Jug, is one of the biggest hockey series of the season. The Battle for the Jug is one of the few series of games that the city divides and one team comes…
When it comes to working in teams there are many dynamics that effect how every one works together. In evaluating a team, you must pay attention to specific characteristics that makes a group effective. An effective group is one that achieves high levels of task performance, member satisfaction, and team viability. Task performance in an effective group achieves its performance goals in the standard sense of quantity, quality, and timeliness of work results. For member satisfaction, in an…