Entering the MBA program at Mays, I was very nervous about the prospect of being placed on a consistent team for the entire two years. I knew that the effectiveness of my team would be the lynchpin to my success or failure within the program. As we learned in class, high quality team coaching cannot make up for low quality design. While I had not learned this formal lesson, my instinct told me to pay particular attention to attributes of my newfound team members. I knew that I had no direct say in the makeup of my team, but I was hopeful that luck would provide a well-designed, cohesive group of individuals who could act more like a team and not a work group. (Challenges) Coming through residency week and being initially introduced to my team, I began to note some of the specific behaviors that may potentially lead to structural weakness in our group. To begin, we had several strong personalities. Constant attempts to assert influence over the group manifested itself in many of our initial meetings. Disagreements often lead to conflict and this conflict lead to frustration. In addition, we often had to pull two team members back into focus during difficult assignments. This led to frustration by other members of who felt the team’s efforts should be laser focused on the deliverable. Lastly, we all came from very different ideological backgrounds. Outside of the MBA process, our walks of life seemed so different that no amount of close quarter interaction could overshadow our backgrounds. However, not only did we overcome these obstacles, we were able to function as one of the most effective and successful teams in the program. Consistently delivering high marks and gaining the praise of many of our instructors. In lo... ... middle of paper ... ...both the single leader and team discipline. As stated in the book, “It’s a matter of applying the right discipline at the right time against the right challenge.” I feel that several of our strong personalities stepped up and succeeded as appropriate leaders which in turn helped us succeed as a team. (Closing) Katzenbach and Smith argue, “performance challenges create teams, not the desire to be a team”. This was especially true in the MBA process. I strongly feel that the personalities of our team would have been incredibility comfortable navigating the MBA program individually. However, by the introduction of the requirement of teaming and the push to perform at a high level, our work group ran the risk of failing as a team. However, because we had trust, process, and appropriate leadership we were molded into one of the most effective teams in the program.
When horrific crimes occur in large cities, many of them can be chalked up to gang violence or to the larger population of that specific city. But when horrific crimes happen in small cities like Lincoln, Nebraska, people begin to ask questions like who did this and why. In 1958, a nineteen year old man named Charles Starkweather put the entire state of Nebraska and possibly the entire nation in a state of terror. With his murder spree taking only three days, Starkweather had collected a body count of ten bodies, including two teenagers and a young child. Understanding Starkweather’s past and state of mind begins to answer the second question of why.
This case study is intended to analyze the movie When a Man Loves a Woman, and to provide worst and best case scenarios for treatment. This film depicts a family that is struggling with a family member’s alcoholic dependency. The mother, Alice Green, is a school counselor who has an addiction to alcohol that is causing her to experience problems in her life as a result of her use. Her husband, Michael Green, is an airline pilot that is very protective Alice and often steps in and takes over for Alice, even in her role as a mother. Alice has two children, Jess and Casey, which also bear witness to their mother’s deterioration from alcohol addiction.
I chose to pick a fictional character that played in a couple of films and now has a TV series. This particular boy suffered severe emotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother who preached to him that sexual intercourse is sinful and that all women except her are whores. The boy’s father died which left the boy and his mother living alone together until adolescence, when his mother took on a boyfriend. This boy became incredibly jealous and murdered both him and his mother with strychnine.
Nursing interventions are important in nursing and patients as they enable patients to get better for example a therapeutic session can help a depressed patient feel better due to the fact that someone is there communicating and listening to them. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2009 (NICE) recommends that interventions should be monitored and reviewed to assess the effectiveness of treatment. In order for Mrs Smith to get medically fit there were some nursing interventions that were put into place for her by the nurses that were looking after her. Mrs Smith depression had been trigged by the death of her mother; she was referred to the Bereavement Counseling Team. This was because Mrs Smith had also been reporting that she had missed her mother greatly and was also being ambivalent towards her family members; they were finding it difficult to cope with her as she constantly moaned and complained which the family thought she was being ungrateful towards them.
Many of the most successful companies in their branch heavily rely on teamwork. Especially companies that offer special services to individual customers which require specific knowledge take advantage of using teams to generate value. Goldman Sachs’ trains its teams regularly to ensure the extraordinary productivity they offer to their customers. “Despite this investment in the individual, our experience is that a person's true potential is only fully developed when he or she works as part of an outstanding team.”[1]
Teams have become integral parts and driving forces of success in organizations. A key common attribute among highly
Thompson, Leigh L. “Making the Team” A Guide for Managers. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc, 2011. Print.
Three years ago our small team was formed. We currently have 6 team members with three original team members remaining. The beginning was difficult with everyone presenting with unique personalities and different talents. We all processed through the stages of Tuckman’s Five-Stage Theory of Group Development (Kinicki Kreitner, 2003).
Effective teams must be developed, not just formed. A group is not a team. Members of a group may sometimes work together, but members of a team always work together. The team need not all be in the same place to be working together. “With a group, the whole is often equal to or less than the sum of its parts; with a team, the whole is always greater” (Oakley, Brent, Felder and Elhajj, 2004). A team, as defined above, has certain characteristics that make it effective. Not all of these traits are present when a team is in the forming stage. Tea...
Considering that the dynamic of student life places student in a highly individualistic environment, it is a difficult feat to draw focus towards forming teams and investing in a vision. Personally, I attempt my best to exhibit the core leadership principles. Occasionally, I do fall short because we do not all have our best days every day.
Wilson, F. 1996, ‘Great Teams Build Themselves’, Team Performance Management: An International Journal, vol. 2,
An effective team is comprised of participants that have an expanded variety of talents and capabilities that can be utilized to support, guide and motivate. Self-motivated teams have participants that have specific assets and limitations that can balance out the others and a variation of qualities that can satisfy diverse functions of leadership and also provide resourceful trends and control. It is also important for effective teams to show
My goal as a new manager to develop team effectiveness within a new team is to try to get the team to be an effective as possible. When developing my new team I would seek out the factors that may affect team effectiveness, which are team composition, team structure, and team processes. Team composition entails who the members of the team are and what skills, abilities, and knowledge each member brings to the team. Some of the decision I will have to make for the team composition will be based on diversity, personality, team orientation and the size of my team. Exploring the differences in beliefs among my team members will help better my team performance. The personalities of team members affect the team 's composition
Before considering the weaknesses from the training session, it is important to highlight the strengths that I believed are focused around the meetings and the lack of conflict within the group. West (2004) strongly believes that “interaction and meetings are vital for team functioning...
Realizing that a group can become a high performance team is important. Accomplishing this goal is invaluable, advantageous and profitable. Once able to operate from a group to the high performing team is a great step into preparation into the big business world. Leaders and members must also realize not only how to accomplish this but that some problems will and can arise from different demographic characteristics and cultural diversity. That is if one is in such a group, which the probability would be quite high.