This past summer, I landed a new job at the Bay Harbor Yacht Club. There are three restaurants that were incorporated in the Yacht club; The Lange Center, Quarter Deck, and the Beach House. The Beach House was where I worked at with two others. Together, we accomplished many things for ourselves and the restaurant itself. In order to do that, we had certain unsaid rules that all three of us abided by. At which I will bring up later on. Eventually, we became what you call an activity system. If you do not know what an activity system is; it is groups of people doing work together, who have common motives and processes to achieve those motives. That activity system turned us into a well put together team just through the three months of summer. We had Karl, who was the boss/manager of the kitchen and Josh who was the other person who ran the kitchen with me. Josh and I were not the ones in charge but Karl always made sure that we had say in everything that happened because ultimately, for three people to run a kitchen, you need to all agree on something. Between the three of us, we made that place make the most members happy, and the most money throughout the summer for the Yacht club. Not only because of how hard we worked to make sure people were satisfied but because of how well we communicated with each other. Communication is key in every group to succeed in their motives, especially for this activity system.
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A prosperous restaurant needs greeters, servers, cooks, and so forth, as well as the managers. Their ability to work as a team is crucial to its success. You may not have the same interests or beliefs of those you work with, but that cannot stand in the way of carrying out your job. The same principles and strategies are relevant and important in sports, and they can be started and nurtured through involvement in organized youth sports activities.
One needs to work as a team –work attitude, bullying and dominating are restraints to growth and team –work.
On our next meeting, I realised that some of the group members were unable to turn up for one reason or the other. Even though some of us were able to gather information, there were still much expected from us as a group. There were misunderstanding among us in that we put blame on each other. This made me realise that partnership working cannot be successful without collaboration, effective communication, good interaction and cooperation among the various individuals
Who I’m assigned to work with all contributes with a greater goal of building connections with the people you work with. The team I’m assigned to consists of my two classmates Sharah Daley and Lajoya Satberry. These two alone make an amazing team seeing their chemistry together, and even applying gamification in how why work. I tend to try my best an everything I do even if I’m new to the project, in a since I am new to media and communications all together so I feel it’s my job to become better so I can keep up and learn so I can always have an input on anything that comes my way. To secure this I’ve contacted both of my class mates to make sure we will always have a way to get in contact with one
Mentorship - Severing as LPO IS1 Bush spends time every drill weekend mentoring junior sailors by forwarding the POM in advance to make sure every sailor is better prepared for each DWE. He has guided sailors on how to manage their own careers by showing them how to create and organize a career binder separated by orders, evaluations, orders and awards. He educates unit members on how to best manager their careers by introducing them to all-in-one online reserve resources, and takes time to mentor each of his subordinates on establishing effect evaluation bullet points so to helps draft the possible yearly evaluations.
Not to keep bringing McDonalds up in every example I give, but McDonalds has taught me a lot about working in teams. On a shift there will be a group of people working in the kitchen called the Production team. The people in the production team each has a different role to play. One person will be tasked with cooking all the products. Two people will be on one side of the prep table. There will be a manager that is in charge of the area. Each person has their strengths which usually determines which area they will be placed in. For instance in the service area there are usually 2 or 3 ladies that are designated order takers because they are fast and efficient. Other people are stronger on different
July 8th, 2015 I began working for Gateway Mortgage Group as a mortgage loan processor assistant. This environment was definitely something I wasn’t familiar with, being that this is my first office job. All of my co-workers are 40+ with children my age and I am the only employee attending college. We all have a role to play, a position to sustain and everyone has completely different personality. . In the career all of our positions play an important role to help families move into their new homes. We have to work hand and hand, as a team in order for closings to be successful. There is no task that can be completed if someone doesn’t do what is expected of them. Even if we don’t physically see each other daily we converse via email or text
The recently implemented staff exchange program between the local and overseas branch, allowed me the opportunity of travelling to the company’s St. Lucia branch for two weeks. I integrated myself into the organization as a member of staff, as well as, observed various strengths and weaknesses.
running one group for six months or longer seems quite exorbitant! The theme of this book was based on an organizational approach to effective team building skills. The fable began by giving a brief background of the cooperation, DecisionTech, Inc. which was what this story was centered around. There was a new CEO, of the corporation, Kathryn, and her main task was to create effective teamwork among her staff who were the key leaders of this company. After observing the interaction and dialogue of all team members for several weeks, she finally decided to call an off-site meeting and invited her staff members to attend. The meeting was to take place just far enough to where
“Your team has to work together to thrive and solve problems, so treat people like you want to be treated. As you work with different people, point out their good traits. Let them know they’ve done
To give you an idea of what I mean let me give you an example of something that happened not that long ago. After I had gotten this business up and running good I hired a few people to man the lemonade stands, and it was not long after that that I started losing profits in the range of about 10% per month. This was unacceptable so I started a training program that has sense launched this business to the top. First thing first I made sure all my employees from that point forward were fully engaged “An employee’s rational and emotional commitment to his or her work” (Bovee, 2012, p 220) in the company. I also instituted tuition reimbursement programs for those that met a 95% performance rating each year they work with us. Furthermore, all employees have a chance to move up the proverbial corporate lander in this company which rewards those that have the drive to be more than they are now. However, for those that just don’t care about things like that we have what I like to call “Eyes in the Sky” or hey we have cameras, and mics that are monitoring everything so if you step out of line we will know, and you will be fired no questions asked! Harsh I know, but there are bad apples in every bunch and if we can get them before they spoil the rest then all the better for everyone involved. Aside from all of this we have an annual retreat for all employees and their families so that we can work on getting to know one another as well as just have fun and forget about work for a bit. (We tell all our employees that we work so that we can live and not that we live to work!) What this means is that we are not the most important thing in the world but your family is and we want all of our employees to work
Working within a group or team is unavoidable for most people. We are involved in sports teams, assignment groups, work teams, social groups and a variety of other groups and teams. Each of these groups share one thing in common, that is each requires us to communicate in some way in order to reach a shared goal or target. Therefore, it is imperative to know and understand how to work and communicate effectively with others to maximise outcomes and productivity.
Following spring break, varsity team members became unhappy and critical of one another. These behaviors were an early indication of a lack of trust needed to be addressed immediately. Trust is paramount in crew. It is important for team members to trust others to correct mistakes, allowing the boat to regain balance and maximum speed (Snook & Polzer, 2004). The early lack of trust among Varsity team members later resulted in a fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results by team members. This was verified by a diagnostic tool described Lencioni’s book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In order to have been successful, the Varsity team would have to trust one another, engage in unfiltered conflict around team issues, commit to decisions and plans of action, hold one another accountable, and focus on the achievement of collective results (Lencioni, 2002).
Our group worked well together because everybody helped each other. First two time that we met we not to be familiar with others, our mind were not open anymore. In the meeting, we shared with ideas and thought thoroughly on every offered idea before making a decision. If there were any mistakes helped each other to correct it. We had meetings every week and we started knowing each other better. We had discussed about our work, how it’s going and going in the right way or not. Then we had a chance to ask each others. We did everything step by step. Finally everything was done on time which subsequented to reach our main goal.
There is constant problems with inventory control, and there is virtually no communication between stores. To make matters worse, the owner has continued to foster this sort of environment, and it has caused one good employee to throw his keys on the counter and leave. This has caused an entire department to fall behind, yet customer orders are still pouring in. The other guy who was pegged to pick up the slack, has decided he is tired of the constant demand, and has taken a similar job over in Seattle, so he is gone. The two remaining guys in that department are in constant conflict with each other (one stole the other ones girlfriend). So a whole lot of nothing getting done over there at that store. Sometimes one or the other does not make it to open the store on time (that has happened three times in a month). One of the other team members does not like our driver, and has decided it is his job to make as many problems for him as he can dream up. Many of the incidents also involve wasting company resources. The rest of us are just trying to cope with two owners that are asleep at the wheel, and hope we can make it to the weekend. These issues come from the top, and are a side effect of two leaders who do NOT know how to manage people in a constructive or positive way. Our project group is in the storming stage, and sadly has been in this stage for at least the last year and a half. There is nothing enjoyable about this stage, especially