Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions Of A Team

Colleen demonstrated her desire to understand the business beyond her function by meeting with Jeffry Vaughn to learn more about Global Regulatory. This offered her a valuable insight to the business outside of the Global Creative packaging team and AMS.

Dave Matters: Chief Design Engineer (CDE) Jack Davis: General Manager, Danbury Plant (GM) Molly Hudson: Product Manager, Clean Queen Floor Care Products (PM) Bart Simpson: National Sales Manager, Floor Care Products (NSM)

Throughout this time, Kerry has performance a good job and has shown excellent technological and communication skills as well as an excellent management by objectives. In addition, Kerry has been in charge of marketing projects, which achieved good outcomes for our company. She always is an excellent team member because of her good attitude and willingness of helping to other colleagues. Kerry has an area of opportunity of improving her performance at work by enhancing her organizational skills.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, written by Patrick Lencioni is based around a group of members on the DecisionTech board of executives. DecisionTech has hit a rough spot and seem to have difficulty staying up to par with their competitors, even though they had better resources and more experienced people working there. Several employee’s left the company and the morale of the work environment was plummeting. Kathryn Peterson was hired to take over as the new CEO at DecisionTech. Kathryn’s first two weeks were questioned by her employees due to what her colleagues felt was the lack of initiative to do anything at DecisionTech.

Mike Massicotte joined New Entry as the Director of Finance and Administration where his responsibilities include strategic planning, business development and financial reporting activities. Supporting New Entry’s training and educational footprint nationally, Mike oversees human resources, funding and grant management activities, as well as the information technology platform critical to the growing enterprise.

I chose to read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, this book is a fable about a fictitious company learning about teamwork and becoming unified. Lencioni uses a storyline to attract readers to understand his model of effective teamwork that the audience can relate to. The newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kathryn was hired to make these executives into a unified team that can show results using the five dysfunctions model. The model is a simple process but can be difficult to get the all the executives on the same page.

Bruce Levenson has over thirty years of collective business experience. For a considerable sum of time, he was a lead as a co-owner at United Communications-Group. Also,

Despite founding her business during an economic downturn, Rona Borre's Instant Alliance, then Instant Technology, experienced rapid growth. Currently the CEO of Instant Alliance, Borre's previous experience at a global staffing and recruiting firm, as well as her desire to put the human element back into the hiring process, took her small startup to a national business serving both government and commercial clients with IT and finance talent.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is a narrative encompassing the successes and struggles of a group of executives working at fictional Silicon Valley company, Decision- Tech, Inc. Lencioni begins his story with the recognition: "Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare," and it is under this premise that the entirety of "The Fable" presented by Lencioni will carry itself out, focusing on the hardships and intricacies of successfully operating a business that has so many expectations to fulfill (Lencioni VII).

Michael Dweck is the Director of technology, at Benchmarc Restaurants and Benchmarc Events. In this role, Michael provides strategic leadership for the restaurants and events outlets including Landmarc at the Time Warner Center, Landmarc Tribeca Events and IT manager for all departments employees for Chef Marc Murphy from the Food channels offices. Michael oversees all front-end, back-end development concepts and strategic technology decisions, security, and PCI requirements. Michael has been at Benchmarc for over 2 years and has restructured the companies IT services diagnosing the systems in place and upgrading hardware and software as well as revamping expensive services for higher efficiency and significant cost reduction.

Team C’s personalities are mainly made up of who we are as individuals, and the way we are perceived by everyone else. Personality traits are specialized characteristics that an individual has, which together form a personality (The Lists, 2013). They can be both positive and negative, although judgment of that can be a matter of opinion. Personality traits are things used to describe an individuals behavior as well as a means of measurement in modern psychology. The Big Five are specific traits that are used to describe the human personality. The concept of the Big Five is from the work of Costa and McCrae and since 1992 has become one of the best methods for understanding the

Sam Nolan is the Chief information Officer for Century Medical. He has been on the job for 4 years, and up until 6 months ago, really loved his job and felt that he was instrumental in bring technological advances to his firm that increased efficiency while bringing future cost savings for the firm. His previous accomplishment includes the creation of a benefits-administration system that is expected to save the company $2M annually. (Daft, 2015, p. 336)

Working in a team to accomplish a specific task is never easy. Conflicts arise, communication breaks down, distrust among members may be present, and roles and responsibilities may not be clearly defined. All of these elements can cause a team to fail. A complete evaluation of Team New Texas’ (TNT) performance will help identify the strengths and weakness of the team and the areas that need improvement.

Arnell wasted no time in diving into the company’s history through various meetings and conferences. These conferences were a great opportunity for the different branches of Clayton in Europe to come together and advise each other as to best and worst business practices in the region, exchange new ideas, and collaborate on solutions to shared fears.

In an official statement, Playtech confirmed that Richard Andrew has been appointed Playtech Sports Chief Operating Officer (COO), arriving from The Hong Kong Jockey Club. As a result of Ian Chuter’s departure for Ladbrokes-Coral, Peter Greberg has been promoted to the position of Technical Director and Malmo Division Leader. Finally, Eion Redmond is joining as Playtech Sportsbook Product Director, following his departure from sports betting powerhouse Betfair. Appointments of this level tend to be somewhat of a rarity, so for Playtech to make three is quick succession really does represent quite the event.