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Team Work Scenarios

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2. As a Canadian volunteer, you have been in country for 2 months. You are working with the partner organization and you notice one of the local staff is not coming to work on time, and not completing any assigned duties. A member of your team starts to complain, and says that the team should alert this to the Country Manager.

In this situation, I would first have a discussion with my team and try understanding the work culture of our new adoptive country. In some country, being on time at work is not a norm. Together we could find solutions such as starting the day earlier to have the local staff at the showing up the expected time ( Exemple; start at 7h30 so that at 8h30am everyone is there).

With the local staff, we could also revise the assigned duties tasks to ensure that they are at their country …show more content…

Your teammates have been formed for one week. Every time there is a staff meeting, one of your team members does not say much. The country staff start to defer to the more outspoken group members.

I would first start by making sure this team member is ok and adapting well to the new country. Maybe he/she is struggling with the new situation and need help to adapt to the situation . Or maybe he/she is just a shy person and not an outspoken person. I would invite this team member to discuss more during the meeting even if I know it might be difficult for her/him.
I would ask her/him directly his/her opinions during meetings to make her/him participate to the discussion.

By doing this, perhaps this person will take confident in her, start sharing more his/her idea and take her/his place in the groupe more.

5. Your Country Manager and a Canadian volunteer are having a conversation about Canada and what it is like. You overhear the Canadian say how women are treated better in Canada, in part because they do not have to stay home. Moreover, practices such as female genital mutilation would never be condoned in Canada, such as it is in some African

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