...FOODCORP REFLECTION PAPER 1. INTRODUCTION In FoodCorp simulation, held on 22 nd of November, my position was VP Marketing Services and I worked under the head of SVP Service Group. Service group consisted of 4 people including one senior vice president and three vice presidents. As VP of Marketing Services, I was responsible for marketing communications in general. I also mention about organizational structure of FoodCorp to establish a basis for my latter discussions. FoodCorp has a matrix structure and also has a number of committees like executive committee, acquisition committee, new business committee and distribution committee. In this paper, I will give brief information about our simulation process and then provide my reflections about some specific moments. 2. SIMULATION PROCESS President’s Decision about Groups: At the beginning of the simulation, our president enabled us to introduce ourselves and give information about our roles. Then each group continued with small meetings with their own groups. After group meetings, we would continue with committee meetings according to the original agenda. However, we were divided into two groups: Those who have operational roles and those who have not and our president decided each group to held meetings according to that division. In the operational group there were 9 people while non-operational group was consisting of 3 people. Service Group Meeting: I think that we held a successful and effective meeting in our...
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...networking You will be placed in groups of 4 - 5 students (two students from MGMT 1196 and two/three students from BUSI-1088 Strategies for Success-International.) This assignment (worth 15 %) is due in week 10 Friday Nov 8 at 3:00pm in the wooden drop box outside of B2025. This assignment is to be completed by Face-to-Face Interaction: Please follow the instructions below: 1. You are to meet with your assigned group three times outside of class time. 2. The group has the choice to decide when and where you will meet. Minimum amount of time for your meeting must be at least 45 minutes long. 3. The Group Leader will be a Human Resources Student. The Group Leader will send out an initial Email to introduce all team members to one another as well as coordinate the first meeting. Both instructors will be cc’d on the initial Email. 4. The other student will keep a record of the meeting in the form of meeting minutes. For each meeting you will need to work on the assigned topic/task and complete the Meeting Minutes as required. 5. Three meeting minutes must be submitted in total. 6. In week 10 each member must submit a personal reflection of this experience included with the three Meeting Minute submissions. Topics/tasks for Meetings: Meeting #1: Getting to know each other and sharing challenges not only in school but in everyday situations. Meeting #2: Identifying personal qualities and expectations most valued by Canadian Employers. Meeting -#3 Exchanging opinions...
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...Checklist. ! ! 1 Pre. 2 Immersion. 3 Post. 1 Checklist. ! ! 1 Pre. Meet with assigned group of facilitators. Get to know each other. How does everyone like to communicate with each other? Set ground rules for communication. (i.e. respond to emails in 24 hours). Plan a weekly meeting time with your Immersion Coach. Team Foundation. ! Impact Area & CPs. ! Gathering Details. Decide on an impact area. Try a mind map! Begin researching and contacting Community Partners (CPs). CC Immersion Coach on emails regarding community partner interactions. Begin finding educational materials for impact area for pre-experience, Immersion, and post experience. Connect with the Office of Alumni Relations to get in contact with any alumni in the area. Emphasize to CPs that Immersion experience are based on service centered around awareness of an impact area (CP’s mission should align with the Immersion program’s mission). Ask what type of work will you be doing. Ensure the service is strong direct service; if you are unsure contact your Immersion Coach. Identify a primary contact within the selected CP. Gather name, phone number, email address (keep track of this information and begin to develop a working document with CP contact information to use for your Immersion binder). Attempt to keep the group together when planning service. Inform CPs about expected number of participants who will be engaging in strong, direct service – estimate 15. Some CPs offer...
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...In my experience, when this team work is successfully we will build a good relationship and be a friend, for example, when I work with a multi-culture team in language school, my classmates also become my friends. Team leadership Work in a multi-culture team, the important technique is people need to respect each other, and try to understand everyone’s culture diversity (Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, 1998, p.60-61). Also have different organizational structure to adapt different culture, so leader is important, because this person might influence this team work is successful or not (Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, 1998, p.64-66). As a good team leader, have a correct organization can make team operation more effective, and it also depend on different culture background and team constitution, for instance, which countries are team members from (Robert, Mansour, Paul and Peter, 2002). Conclusion In recent years more people face of multi-culture work, owing to increase globalization business, so it is essential to understand different culture and how to operate and work with different background’s people. However it cannot avoid conflict and people have different opinion, but in the process respect and good communication and help members solve problems (Richard and Tim, 2009). Reference Lee, K. and Carter, S. (2012), Global Marketing Management. (Third Edition), Oxford: Oxford University. Guirdham, M. (2005), communicating across cultures at work. (Second Edition)...
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...How to Guide for REFLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Guide for REFLECTION The National Service-Learning Cooperative ServeAmerica K-12 Clearinghouse Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental and Community Service Learning Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center Compiled by Lorraine Parrillo Cooperative/Clearinghouse Coordinator Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center December 5, 1994 Used with their permission INTRODUCTION This module includes a summary of materials currently used to support reflection in the service learning movement. Crucial information presented includes: 1. Introductory materials on Reflection by Diane Hedin and Dan Conrad 2. Reflective teaching techniques using eleven different forms of reflection rather than just using journals and asking how participants feel about service 3. Basic critical thinking skills that may be used in reflection sessions 4. Bibliography Reflection Reflective learning techniques are not the lone providence of service activities. All thinking and dialogue requires some form of reflection if learning is to take place. Individuals need time and reconsideration of events to put facts and ideas into sequence and eventually into a better understanding as to what happened during a specific event. Everyone in their life-time will be required to repeat this process endlessly. Nevertheless, schools do little...
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...1 weakness 5 4. Vital factors for building an effective team 6 4.1 strength 6 Implementation and reflection 6 1. Goals 6 2. Time line 6 3. Implementation 7 4. Reflection 7 1. Article one : Team management skills This article ‘ The management skills - The Core Skills Needed to Manage Your Team’, Mindtools (2014) discuss the some of the key points about how to be a team managers and how to do can thrive and succeed. These range from deciding who does what and how to choosing the right people also to developing , motivating people and with the developing. In addition, this article also cover the most common pitfalls to be avoided. The article is related to the my topics ‘team and teamwork’. However, it is not useful source for my topic due to limited relevance, minimal development of ideas. 1.1 strengths This article is relate to the assessment task on team and team work. Mindtools (2014) notes that doing the team work be a good team leader it is very important and give some main point • Importance of delegation • Motivating • Development team • Communication and work with team Under these four points this article give some theory be how to be a good team leader and give some tips. This article the communication with people this part give a strong evidence and explain group meeting is very important. Reading this article can find out how to run a brainstorming sessions. Can improve and understand...
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...This reflection is going to talk about the first experience of learning this course and working in a team. Actually, I miss the lecture so I have no findings in the lecture, but I got much information from the group meeting and i initially to understand this course use a problem-based teaching way to apply its learning approach. Therefore, the group studying and working is the necessary process to facilitate work done. Firstly, I’d like to thanks Raymond who has arranged first meeting for our group. So basically I felt the face to face meeting is much high communication channel than virtual communication like discussion board. Therefore, we are agreed a consensus which at least meet up once a week in order to gathering information and allocating individual task. The first week group meeting is basically based on information gathering, so I and every member did some initial researches for each question in order to get a concept idea. Then Idea and information presentation is become next step, this is good, because the information sharing and discussing always relates to different opinion between different peoples. I got much information I didn't know it before and other members mentioned during the meeting. The most impressive one is ‘What do we know? What do we need to know? How are we going to find out? And who is going to do it?’ The four simple sentences help me to find more critical thinking, so I put it in every question as benefit. Furthermore reflections is about...
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...Critical Reflection on current clinical knowledge and development Within this assignment I will critically reflect on my clinical knowledge to date and consider my future development needs with a focus on my final management placement and future career as a registered nurse. I have chosen two areas which I feel are relevant to my future development needs namely Quality Assurance and Multidisciplinary/Agency team working and using the Gibbs model (fig. 1)as a framework will reflect upon my own learning experiences and achievements to date and write an annotated reflection highlighting my development needs from which I will formulate a Personal Development Plan. This undertaking demonstrates my commitment to the need for continuing professional development in order to enhance my knowledge, skills values and attitude needed for effective nursing practice (proficiency 4.1) and will address deficits in my knowledge and skills and identify any shortcomings within my own or others practice and help me cope with practice related issues experienced within my previous placements. I have chosen Gibbs reflective model as a basis for reflection as I feel it is easily understood and encourages a clear description of the situation, analysis of feelings, evaluation of the experience, conclusion and reflection upon the experience to consider a solution if the situation arose again (Brooker & Nicol 2003). It has been advocated that reflective practices are a method of bridging the gap between...
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...BU5523 Leadership and Decision Making Brief for Group Assignment The group assignment addresses a number of aspects in Leadership and Decision Making. It will involve consideration of leadership theories from different cultural contexts in terms of approach, strategy, or other relevant areas. The assignment will be carried out in small groups. Your group will be pre-assigned by the Course Team in due course. It is the task of the first named person in each group to co-ordinate the initial meeting. This first meeting must take place by Friday 23rd of February 2013. The grade awarded for the group assignment will account for 20% of the course assessment. The group assignment has three parts and forms a portfolio of work. The parts are as listed below: | |Task |Due Date | |Part one: |Group poster presentation (50% of group mark) |4.00pm, 25thth April, 2013*. | |Part two: |Poster Summary (25% of group mark) |4.00pm, 25thth April, 2013. | |Part three: |Minutes of group process (25% of group mark) |4.00pm, 25th April, 2012. | * Poster presentations will take place w/c 29th April 2013 The objectives of this assignment include: 1. Building your understanding...
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...Management March 24, 2013 Contents 1. Group Development 3 2. Problem Identification 3 3. Retrospective Evaluation 4 4. Reflection 4 Bibliography 5 1. Group Development According to the text, there are five stages of group or “team” development which are as follows: a. Forming – where the team members get to know one another b. Storming – at this stage, the group is defining tasks to be performed and are also dealing with any group tensions. c. Norming – where the group begins to work together and building relationships d. Performing – the stage where the group’s relationship matures and complex tasks are handled creatively. This is when the group is most stable. e. Adjourning – the stage where the work is completed and the group disbands. I believe that Christine’s group is still at the storming stage because the group has not reached cohesion to be classified as being within the norming stage. The fact is, Mike seems to be in limbo somewhere and sees himself as still somewhat of an outsider especially when he encountered the group in the cafeteria having an impromptu meeting. Although Christine seems to be an organized person, her demeanor in dealing with Mike’s issues shows a lack of leadership skills. Having knowledge of group development would have given her concise guidance into which stage her group is at and how to properly address their issues. Although the group exclusive of Mike has probably worked on their areas...
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...years. I have learned that the principles of AA are ones that can be universally used to aid anyone in getting through some of life’s challenges. My experiences at my AA meetings have shown me that the program does indeed work. And most importantly people are accepted where they are and made to feel welcome. I was able to attend two Awakenings meetings in Plattsburgh. My first meeting I didn’t get to much interaction from others and things might have changed had I been able to stay through the end of the meeting. At my other meeting I was able to stay for the duration and I was able to interact with the group. I was able to see how a “newbie” would/could be turned away from an AA meeting. I met a lady in the meeting, whom I sat next to and she was able to introduce herself to help me feel at ease. However, throughout the meeting she took it upon herself to tell me about certain individuals in the group and picked apart pieces of others stories. I found this to be very offsetting, and I would hope that she didn’t do this on a regular basis. If I had been an alcoholic in crisis, I might have been pushed to go and drink more by this lady. I believe in her heart she meant well, just the method in which she went about it was wrong. Other parts of the meetings involved participation from the groups. I thought this to be good to make everyone feel a...
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...edu/ Objectives Office of Human Resources There are many reasons you may choose to use and icebreaker or activity: to warm up or relax your group, to bring your group back together after a break or intense session, to introduce the next segment or to present your group with challenges that, as a team (together or divided into small groups or teams), your group must either overcome or address. Age & Appropriateness Icebreakers and activities are adaptable to your group and situation. When considering an icebreaker or activity, be sure to keep specifics about your group in mind, such as age and meeting focus. Please don’t overlook an icebreaker or activity because you think the group is too mature for it. Many groups, once aware that it’s ok to relax and have fun, will enjoy the experience of “being able to let go,” if only for a moment. Icebreakers Icebreakers are exercises that are intended to help a group of people begin the process of forming and working with a team. Icebreakers are commonly used at the beginning of a meeting and presented in a game format to “warm up” the group and help them get to know each other. However, icebreakers can be used at any point during a meeting and for many reasons: to keep the group on track; to provide the group with a mental or physical break; after lunch to get the group...
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...BAC4674 INTEGRATED CASE STUDY Peer Evaluation and Reflections Evaluation by: Sitti Amirah Mohd Bakry Student ID: 1102703302 Part A – REFLECTIONS Please provide your reflections of the course (e.g. what you have learnt, what you have improved, what you like about the course, what you dislike about the course, how the course can be improved). ------------------------------------------------- From this course, I have learned on experiences of organizational problems that I probably have not had the opportunity to experiences first-hand. In a relatively short period of time, I will have the chance to appreciate and analyse the problems faced by many different companies and to under stand how managers tried to deal with employees and customers based on group mate discussion on previous case before. In addition, the theory and concept what I learned from various subjects help reveal what is going on in the companies studied and allow me to evaluate the solution that specific companies adopted to deal with the problems. Consequently, when I analyse the case, I will be like a detective who, with a set a conceptual tools, probe what happened and what or who was responsible and then the evidence that provides the solution. It gives me opportunity to participate in class and to gain experience in presenting my idea to others based on the discussion with group mate. This mode of discussion is an example of the dialectical approach...
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...Learning Team Reflection -Week 4 Our learning group has been overall successful in conducting productive meetings and completing tasks in a timely manner and at the desired quality level. However, there are aspects that can be improved in order to make meetings run more smoothly. The success can be attributed to several factors. One of the most important factors leading to successful meetings is setting clear goals and an agenda before the actual meeting. Being that all group members have demanding jobs and families to attend to, we have been able to avoid wasting time meeting for things that can be done via email or over the group discussion forum. Instead, we have identified the tasks that require of all the team members’ presence and set up face-to-face meetings to discuss only those things. Moreover, the group has created an atmosphere of trust in which all members feel comfortable expressing their ideas freely. Group discussion, active listening and constructive criticism are encouraged. Finally, we have been able to compromise and make group decisions that leave everyone satisfied. The learning group could improve success in conducting meetings and performing group tasks/projects by focusing on staying on topic. Instead of socializing during the meeting, team members could be rewarded with socialization time once the team goals have been met. At the same time, team members could contribute to time management by adequately preparing and gathering all...
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...Analysis of Team Experience We are the Asian Super Team. Our name is derived from the fact that all of us come from Asia, in particular East Asia. From the beginning, I was pretty apprehensive about the team experience. My expectations were bordering on guarded caution to indifference. The reason being that out of the four syndicates I had in the first semester, only one turned out to be really fruitful and enjoyable while the other three were terrible nightmares The first synergistic syndicate experience was actually the Organisations syndicate with members from diverse backgrounds. The other three were task-driven, had little group member satisfaction and achieved only mediocre work. The initiatives to align group members and to start on tasks fell mostly on my shoulders and I was terribly disappointed by the contrast between these groups and the Organisations syndicate. Therefore, to prevent such a re-occurrence, I kept my hopes down to a minimum. In the very first session, we established our team charter and operating norms. The team charter and operating norms are affixed in the appendix A. The 5th of July marks a momentous day in the life of the AST learning team. Basically, on the day of the Learning Team Self-Review, our learning team’s inadequateness and non-performance in some areas were exposed (A summary of the results of that review is in Appendix B). The wide range of values and low mean revealed the already obvious to most of us that our learning team...
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