9. TEAMWORK

The first assignment from People & Organisations was group work including preparation of power point presentation about motivation in work, presenting it to lecturer and later on generating report about it. For presentation there was actually not much real group work. Presentation’s tasks were split and given out to members. Everyone took care of his part himself and team work was unsettled. When the time for conducting presentation came one member did not show up, which was lack of respect to others. There could be more teamwork, agreement and common contribution, however given work results were not that bad at all. After presentation there was some time for preparing report, what in my opinion went much better than presentation. Meeting after meeting members shared their experiences about the topic. Contribution of members was fairly equal.
Summarizing, the teamwork of the group could be better. It would give greater results, because in fact the piece of work was marked around 50%, which is acceptable but there should be more attention paid to details and accuracy of realization.
For next group tasks there must be more accuracy in tasks division and understanding of the topic as well as understanding of each other and given roles. Everyone’s contribution must be equal and every member must have respect to others in order to keep atmosphere of being good team, where members understand each other very well.

After first group work reviewed above, last group work assignment for Marketing can be called real success. We worked in the same group and it was fairly noticeable that the group took its lesson of teamworking. The Charity assignment included conducting Charity event, exhibition and generating report about it. The assignemt was difficult and much more complex than the first one when we worked in the group. This time everything was perfect. Group communications, effort and envolvement. We owe the success to our hard work and better tasks division. This time we were aware who can do what and followed this pattern. All what can be said is that if we will work in the same group once more – we can expect yet bigger success.

OUR CHARITY AUCTION WITH MUSIC PERFORMANCE


EXHIBITION STAND

The following are two examples of the companies where true spirit of teamwork helped to achieve their success. These are taken from the list of best companies to work for by Times in year 2010.

BARRHEAD TRAVEL

When the company went under just before Christmas, the real teamwork was desperately needed to recovery. In spite of quite season and low staff, all workers stayed late hours in work and even these having off came to help. Nobody asked them so, but they felt obliged and wanting to support. Most of staff cancelled their holidays and only the reason was strong relation to the company and desire to help in those hard moments. It can be said that their dedication and loyalty helped to save the company.

THE RICHMOND GROUP

The company wanted to expand their loan brokerage business, but they came out with interesting idea instead of getting more staff. They took some of their call centre agents, divided them into two groups and gave each one 10,000 pounds to set up a debt management operation, and the most successful would have right to become the firm’s new brand. Six months later Debt Line emerged the Richmond Group and now it is its second largest brand. Yet again the power of real teamwork gave fantastic results with simple idea – using the power that was already within the Richmond Group.