Item 708
Transforming Your Group into a Team
Hand-drawn numbers on three rectangular pieces of white paper and a handwritten note on a torn piece of white paper.
- Why it matters
- Tom writes this
- Type
- Handwritten sheet
- Collection
- Tom writes this
- Published in
- IN A BOOKPoems By Tom (2007)
Tom Jensen Poem Anthology (2013)
The 714-Page Book (2012)
The Laima Dedication Anthology (2011) - Age when written
- written by age 29 at the latestdated from the earliest book it appears in - the sheet itself may be older
Price · Tier · Tom fills these
The words on this page
Started drinking to drown my sorrows
I gave it up when trouble learned to swim
Rat on a rusty wheel
U P W
She came to me late one night
As a damsel in distress
I'm always the type to lend a helping hand
I surely will confess
I spotted her near the bottom of my driveway
Hiding behind my crumbling stone wall
I wasn't sure if she was okay
So to her I softly called
Because of the bag she held
I noticed that her small hands trembled
Because of the confusion in her eyes
I noticed that an infant child she resembled
Stream
Shore
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underemphasized, your marketing team may choose to forgo some short-term profits while building the division for future higher payoffs. (However, don't forget the simulation does have a specified period of time to run.) Teams should not manage the firm only for the short term and "end play" the simulation to maximize profits at the end of play. This would not be operating the division in the best interest of the parent firm and the stockholders. In other words, at the end of the simulation, the parent firm (represented by your instructor), will be expecting to evaluate a "healthy, going concern." Other important objectives that the instructor (or teams) may want to establish include:
1. Implementation of marketing strategies that capture a maximum (or optimum) market share.
2. Management of operations in a cost-effective manner.
3. Observation of good business ethics and standards that will increase the value of corporate goodwill.
4. Maintenance of reasonable inventories.
5. Accumulation of knowledge about certain marketing mix relationships through experimentation and good market research practices.
Transforming Your Group into a Team
There is a big difference between a group and a team. A group is a cluster of people whereas a team is a group that has been organized to get a job done. For a group to become a team, the members must have a high degree of trust, mutual respect for ideas, open communication, equal participation, and constructive confrontational skills. As you might imagine, a team does not automatically form from a group - it takes a lot of hard work on the part of the group members and they have to WANT to succeed as a team.
This process is not easy. The dynamics of a group becoming a team include four phases:
1. Forming - awareness and acceptance of others
2. Storming - conflict concerning leadership and style of decision making
3. Norming - cooperation results from involvement and support
4. Performing - achievement of the desired productivity
In order for your team to be successful in the simulation, you need to build a high degree of trust and cooperation. It will be good practice since many firms are becoming more participative in management style. Since it is unfair for any team member to not do his or her fair share, and it is unfair for any team member to monopolize the decision making, the manual has peer evaluation forms in it, and your instructor will likely ask you to evaluate each team member.
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