I would like to nominate the Mayfield Human Resource Team of Vivian Travis and Melinda Johnson for the teamwork award. Vivian and Lindy’s experience, patience and teamwork has created one of the strongest and most capable Human Resource Teams in Progress Rail in one of the most demanding environments.…
1) Interdependence is the mutual reliance on one another between two or more individuals in a group. In a group or a team each individual is relying on one another to perform to a certain level of expectation in order for their team or group to succeed. With each individual of the group or team it is important to discuss the mutual agreement of what they are expected of. In Remember the Titans the scene where Gery and Julius after a 3-a-day practice talk about honesty. The conflict between them is seen in this scene. Gery is expecting for Julius to pull or push the opponent or do something to get past the line. While Julius responds for his expectation of Gery to be a captain and tell his “white buddy’s” to block for Rev better. With the continuing of this argument…
According to Freshman (2010) et al p. 1, team building and collaboration are essential elements for any health care team large or small. Fostering collaboration and communication among the teams’ members of long term care, is a necessary process for the successful operation of the entire group (Freshman (2010) et al p. 2) Members of an Interprofessional teams, communicate and work together, as colleagues, to provide quality, individualized care for patients and accountability based on their individual disciplines (Freshman (2010), et al p. 1-2).…
A team is a coordinated group of persons organized to work jointly to accomplish a specific or common goal. A group includes at least three people and even though all teams are small groups not all groups function as a team. In a group setting it’s possible that each member may have a different agenda or mission separated from one another and each team member may have a different idea of what needs to be accomplished. A team has individual who work together to achieve a general task. Teams usually have clearly defined team- members responsible and being fortunate to have been part of both a team and a group.…
Fundraising for a nonprofit organization in a weak economy is very uncertain; not many individuals or businesses have the financial means to lend money. Thus, it is imperative to use all approaches to fundraising. Fundraising for a nonprofit organization typically involves applying for loans, grants, and using other forms of government and public assistance. When implementing non-traditional approaches to fundraising, it is important to use every possible means of government assistance, community support, and family contribution methods because there are limited the country’s economic status.…
Why is it necessary to gather information about current or potential team members’ work in the context of developing a more innovative team?…
With the list of positive benefits to group mentoring there are a few risks that can interfere with the learning and development of mentees and mentors:…
Effective working relationships are the cornerstone for building and maintaining a successful team. Good team communication provides direction, vision and motivation to the members of the team. Team communication can be the sending or receiving of messages to or from management, between team members or from one team to another. Effective team communication increases team members' effectiveness and satisfaction because they are given the appropriate guidelines, tools and direction on how to accomplish tasks. The team needs to trust and be completely open with each other. By doing this they are able to know what each other are doing and what they expect of one another. Feedback from a manager and also from fellow colleagues is also important. This increases motivation and also provides the team with direction and support. Effective teams share a common goal or objective and everyone in the team buys into these goals. Each team member of the team needs clear roles. This improves the working relationship as everyone knows what role they are doing. Within Cheltenham Racecourse we try to divide the temporary staff into separate departments. We have separate portering, catering, stewarding and technical teams. By doing this everyone has clear roles and knows what they are doing. As much as we can we keep the same people doing the same roles as this helps form a team and the longer they work together the more effective their working relationships are. Every morning / start of an event we hold a catch up meeting to run through what needs to be done during the day. We set targets for the day and this challenges the team and helps them work together towards these common goals. To help improve communication everyone is issued with a radio at the…
This approach to leadership is quite interesting and has influenced me because in the latter part of my career in the Navy, I see this type of leadership style more and more. Many people may think of the military being as part of a big team; and they are correct in many cases, but there is a lot of individualism as well. It was not until technology and increased tracking of policies and programs that I started to notice and be a part of project management, task force, and improvement teams. This was not commonplace in probably the first half of my career. Northouse (2012) emphasized additional types; “Examples of such teams include project management teams, task forces, work units, standing committees, quality teams, and…
Running a political campaign is one of the most challenging and exhausting activities possible. Running a typical campaign will mean 12+ hour long work days for several months. On Election Day, either you win, or you and your entire campaign team are fired. As you approach the final days of the campaign, this creates a huge amount of stress and pressure for success. While nothing can eliminate the stress of the countdown to Election Day, the proper organization of a political campaign can avoid some unnecessary challenges. For my ethnography I decided…
The determination of whether you write a problem statement or a needs assessment may hinge more on the funder’s priorities than your own passion for the project. Either way, the same information will be stated either as a reduction of what is currently a problem or an enhancement of a need to be added to a current situation.…
In a care oriented environment, to achieve any worthwhile results, one must work as part of a team. Great practice is a fine thing but unless it is part of a communicative, dynamic team then it falls down as soon as the practitioner finishes their shift. As Adrian Ward in 1993 puts it “Teamwork should never be regarded as an optional extra in this sort of work, it is the heart of the matter.”…
This reflective writing is about the qualities of good candidates, good campaign managers and campaign workers. Reading the Chapter 1 of the book Winning your Election the Wellstone Way allowed me to further extent my knowledge regarding the qualities of good progressive candidates, campaign managers and workers. For me, the key takeaways from the readings were the need for campaigns to maintain discipline and that campaign strategy must accompany the candidate’s authenticity. In the book, Winning your Election the Wells Stone Way, Blodgett and Lofy (2008) mention that “along with hard work comes discipline, or staying focused on a plan, strategy, and timetable”…
Following this election candidates must undergo self-discovery and arduous labor during a time known as the Ordeal. During my time as a member, the different roles of service I have undertaken in this distinctive society have taught me an important lesson. By learning how much a person can get out of service; a…
To complete the group evaluation form several factors were considered to evaluate the overall performance of the group. This consists of determining the contribution of each group member to produce a high-quality final product. In particular, communication between each person needed to be considered as this correlated with the amount of work they provided. Attitude is an additional factor that is very important as the members that had a negative attitude would often avoid doing work which caused them to produce low quality work. Completing this assessment task enabled me to have a deeper understanding of the efficiency of the group by evaluating each member. For instance, I learnt that where there was a lack of communication within the group,…