We were asked to create a presentation about a particular company chosen by us, and talk about the key management functions of the group. We then selected 3 different types of key management functions which we thought were important. We chose;
• Human Resources
• Marketing
• Finance
My part was the Marketing. For this I had a few months to research the company thoroughly and put together a slideshow full of useful information. I went on to the GHD website (the company me and my group chose) and researched what was required in order to become a manager for the chosen role.
During the term, we had regular meetings, almost every week and discussed what was to be done next. Every week we would get a task set and everyone had to bring in their work the following week. I missed out on the first few weeks but then brought myself back into role when the time got closer and gave in 100%. I done my work weeks before and got the team leader to approve of it, he gave me feedback and I re-done the work and presented it again until the final draft was complete. We then put everyone’s work together and created our final presentation and scripts.
Throughout the weeks, I also learnt a lot about the management functions in the company, and how every function in businesses is very important. Most of the functions even link to each other such as marketing would need help from finance to let them know how much budget is allowed to be used for marketing. This shows that just the way companies need help within their business from each other, we also as a group needed to work together as a team and help each other out.
There was some lacking in energy during the beginning of the term about the presentation and for a few weeks, no one had done anything, but then we came