...is learning, based on past events; to enable future events to be better. Within this essay I will be critically evaluating my and the groups preparation leading up to the debate, looking at things we done well and that can be implemented in the future when I am doing group work again, but also looking at things that the group could have done better in order to improve performance in the future. At the beginning when the groups were decided my group firstly considered creating a Facebook group chat so that we can all communicate with each other in a practical and efficient way. All group members agreed that this would be the best way to communicate with each other. This was used as our main method of communication for organising meetings and discussing the debate. Having thought about this I think that this was a good aspect to get right at the start it...
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...Observation: Developmental Stages Liberty University December 2nd 2013 Where did I conduct my observation? My observation was conducted at my church on a rainy communion morning. I chose that Sunday morning because I knew that it was going to be somewhat crowded and I would get the opportunity to observe all of the developmental stages. I thought about going to the mall, but I dismissed that idea because I would get the urge to go and shop or even feel bad because I didn't purchase anything. This observation was completed on Sunday December, 1st 2013 at 10:00 a.m. My first observation was that of the late adulthood. Everyone calls her Mommy "T". As she sauntered to her seat, she had to make a few short stops. She hugged and kissed and even stop to tell a young child about the age of three to stop running in the sanctuary. I gave a slight chuckle because I knew when she was younger she would have held him by his hand and gave him a good scolding. Feldman (2011)refer to this type of aging as the "activity theory". Though she is 90 years old, she maintains the interests and activities as when she was in her middle age. She certainly has adapted to the environment by not withdrawing. She reminded me of my great grandmother. My great-grandmother attended church all the way up to her mid nineties. She washed, cooked, cleaned and read her bible without glasses. When she attended the senior citizen center she was the light of the gathering. My great grandmother...
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...upon to lead a meeting with a diverse group of people there are many different things to consider in order to be successful. People with different backgrounds or who hold different positions in the workplace have varied values that one needs to be sensitive to. It is important to know who is being addressed and why so that the meeting runs smoothly and is effective. It can be a difficult balance to present information to a vast group of people. Shareholders and customers will generally want to hear different information. For example, if quarterly sales are good, then the shareholders will be happy. If sales are slowing then shareholders may want prices to be raised to make up for the lack of sales, which will in turn make the customer unhappy. For these reasons the importance to know who your audience is and how to speak to them can make the difference between a successful meeting and an unsuccessful one. Being in a situation in which one is called on to present quarterly sales information at an in-person meeting to a group of diverse individuals who all have stake in the company there are many characteristics that need to be considered. One being where does the audience come from. Keep in mind the different cultures in the room and how they will respond to a more direct approach than a less direct approach. Choosing words carefully and listening to how an audience is responding sets the tone to how to continue with the meeting. If an audience comes into a meeting obviously tense...
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...Group Discussion 2 – Managing Difficult Personalities The “Dominator”, the “Multi-Tasker”, and the “Rambler” are both a frustration and a distraction to the project team. They can demoralize the team by expressing negative opinions; derail productive discussions by preventing other team members from contributing their own ideas, and cause meetings to go off track and reduce efficiency. These team members all have a negative effect on the group dynamic. If Nancy does not address these issues, these people may undermine the success of the project and diminish Nancy’s authority as the project manager. Going forward, Nancy should take a pro-active approach to managing her team. Strategies that she can use for individual personality types include: For the Dominator: * Adopt a nominal group discussion technique. In this discussion model each member is asked to respond in writing to a question about the project. Nancy then opens the discussion by asking each participant to share one - and just one - of their comments/suggestions in turn. Nancy will record the ideas on a flip chart for group discussion once all ideas have been brought forward. The discussion continues around the table multiple times until there are no more new ideas or comments to contribute. * Wrap up the meeting with a “round robin” discussion inviting everyone’s feedback on the discussion, progress made and next steps to be taken. * Meet one on one with the “Dominator” and discuss the problem...
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...Chapter Thirteen Meetings, Conventions/Exhibitions, and Event Management Key Teaching Elements/Chapter Outline Historical Review Page Object. |People have gathered for meetings for hundreds of years. Meeting purposes have been and are very |446 | | |diverse. | | | |Associations go back many centuries; they originated in the United States at the beginning of the 18th |446 | | |century. Associations spend about $53.5 billion holding meetings and conventions that attract 22.6 | | | |million attendees (approximately). | | | |The hospitality and tourism industry consists of a number of associations. (These are listed on page |446 |1 | |446 in the student text.) Associations offer the following benefits for members: government/political | | | |voice, marketing avenues, member services, and networking. | | | Types of Meetings |Meetings are conferences, workshops, seminars, or other events designed to bring people together in |447 |2, 3 | |order to exchange information. There are various forms that meetings can take – Clinic...
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...September 16, 2011 Group Objectives: Gain valuable experience working with groups to introduce the team to real world working experience. | Implementing a strategy that is both efficient and well managed and time effective. | Open and creative meetings where all members work together towards a common goal | Incorporate a timeline to firmly follow deadlines and avoid procrastination. | Create a product that is new-to-the-world that focuses around sustainable and green practices. | Individual Objectives: Gain experience to relate to future opportunities in the real world. | To earn a good grade that reflects our time and effort. | Gain experience working in a long-term team environment. | To be well prepared and professional before and during all meetings. | Team Norms / Expected Behavior The desired behavior of our team would be for all members to be in communication with each other while showing up on time to all meetings with individual work completed. We also desire for members to bring new ideas to meetings with an open sharing experience. The acceptable behavior would be to make an honest attempt to show to all meetings with visible effort in project completion. It is also expected for all members to spend an equal amount of time and effort on the project consistently through the semester. It would be unacceptable for members to show up to meetings without completed work or to fail to communicate if a member will miss a meeting. It is also unacceptable...
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...9/16/11 Part I: Group Development Five stages of team development are as follows: (1) Forming, getting to know each other. (2)Storming, dealing with tensions and defining group tasks. (3) Norming, building relationships and working together. (4) Performing, maturing relationships and task performance. (5) Adjourning, disbanding and celebrating accomplishments. With Mike, the team never could get past the storming stage. Without Mike the group is at the performing stage. By understanding the stages of team development, Christine could have seen and solved the primary problem during the storming stage. The cafeteria incident where Mike walked away upset, was part of the storming stage and that was in week three. The group is now in week five. As the team leader, Christine should have addressed the problem so that the entire team could approach and move to the Norming Stage smoothly and harmoniously together as a team. Instead, they left Mike behind and moved on without his presence. The team at week five is now ready to present their case and is now in the Performing Stage. Mike only has some rough handwritten notes. Knowledge of the Team Development Stages should have helped Christine fix problems during the Storming Stage before moving on to the next stage clean and fresh. Part II: Problem Identification The primary problem is Mike, the secondary problem is Christine. During the first group meeting, Mike showed resistance to get together...
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...Unit 328:- Understand how to lead effective meetings AC 1.1 Explain the purpose of a meeting Staff meetings The purpose of regular staff meetings helps an organisation become much more organised and efficient and places both employees and managers on the same page, it makes it easier to establish roles and collaborates to finish projects and achieve goals. They make it possible for all members of a company to work together with less confusion and accomplish objectives faster. They cover a range of relevant information, and provide a platform for employees to ask questions and discuss concerns with management enabling staff to offer ideas and solutions directly to managers and team members within the company. Staff meetings inform and educate employees about new rules and regulations that affect them and should be long enough to get the point across. They also help to harmonise the skills and experience of the team members in achieving a common purpose, realise what each other is doing and discuss problems they have, assess the progress of goals and what steps to take to resolve them. Meetings ensure all team members are informed of each member’s progress and encourage them to help each other if problems need resolving. Members realise they are not working alone and by working together team spirit is enhanced. One-on-one meetings One-on-one meetings between a team member and their manager provide an uninterrupted private time to receive and discuss the employee’s...
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...Setting The alcohol anonymous meeting I attended took place at East Bay in warren at a club house between 5:15 pm and 5:45pm and I will refer to the meeting as “The gathering of morals”. The room is big enough to accommodate the members and from what I learnt nothing else happens there apart from the meetings. Signs are put in the walls which are basically the announcements, 12 steps, and 12 traditions and slogans. There was a lot of coffee indeed and people freely filled there cups. There are members as young as 16 years old and older individuals making the median age to be around 45 to 55 of years. There were individuals of different social class: those who seem to be living in the street and those who seem much confortable financially. There was no much big amount in racial diversity. Meeting occurrence AA meeting started on time with the chairperson “Mr. Milton” calling the meeting to order. Other conversation stopped and people took their sits. It then followed a moment of silence before one of the members offered to pray then there after members recited the Serenity Prayer. The chairperson then asked if there was any person attending the meeting for the first time and their reasons for attendance. The aim of doing so was to welcome any guests or visitors. What I observed and shocked was "The gathering of morals” meeting room is not a church in but in many ways, it imitates the church among the Christians faithful space that would be familiar to any Catholic church...
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...and if they are currently available. In today’s society everybody has a cell phone, tablet or other kind of device with them throughout the day, which means that no person is truly ever unreachable. The Sametime software offers a messaging feature, along with the video and voice messaging capabilities to keep everyone connected. Always being connected means that productivity is never at a halt while waiting for answers. Sametime increases efficiency and effectiveness. Sametime may increase employee productivity by shortening the response time for others to email back or share information by offering many other ways to contact members in the group. Members of the group can share ideas, progress and new information with the group without ever having to schedule meetings or catch someone when they have free time. Sametime allows for groups to share post-it notes in various places to allow for problems, ideas and other information regarding a project to be shared easily with all members. Sametime’s UC functions allows for integrations to be made within all aspects of a businesses’ communications platform. It also offers access to all contacts which...
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...MANAGE MEETINGS Following is the assessment that I have prepared of managing the meeting that are held in my business. The purpose of this assessment, I am successfully running a Pizza shops that has two branches; one in a campbellfield plaza and other shop is in Pascoe vale area. Following are the required details of the business. Business Type: food store Business Name: Pizza shop Menu: Our menu will include 4 sizes pizzas with various combination of topping, additionally bread sticks, bear and soda will be included in the initial menu offerings. Services: pizza shops offers high quality pizza to growing community that currently has limited availability to delivery .They always provide fresh pieces of pizzas. Key to success: The key to success in this business are: 1. Delivering the customer value proposition. 2. Marketing: promoting a new company, product and delivery channels to a rural community. 3. Product quality and consistency. : Objectives The objectives for pizza are: 1. To establish the market presence needed to support marketing and sales goals and to attract customers. 2. To achieve double dig it profit margins. 3. To reach healthy monthly sales by the end of the year, and average monthly sales increasing. Stakeholders of business • Employee • Government • Customers ...
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...Planning, Conducting, and Recording Meetings Module Nineteen McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2014 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objectives LO 19-1 Apply strategies for good meeting plans. LO 19-2 Apply strategies for productive meetings. LO 19-3 Apply strategies for good meeting decisions. LO 19-4 Apply strategies for business networking 19-2 Learning Objectives LO 19-5 Explain techniques for effective meeting participation. LO 19-6 Select items for inclusion in meeting minutes. LO 19-7 Compose scripts for informal meetings with bosses. LO 19-8 Compare and contrast techniques for virtual meetings versus face-to-face ones. 19-3 Types of Meetings Parliamentary Run under strict rules Use Robert’s Rules of Order. Staff Typically are held to announce new policies and products, answer questions, share ideas, and motivate employees. 19-4 Types of Meetings Team Bring team members together to brainstorm, solve problems, and create. One-on-One Are perhaps the most common kind of meeting Highly informal 19-5 What planning should precede a meeting? Meetings can have at least six purposes: To share information. To brainstorm ideas. To evaluate ideas. To make decisions. To create a document. To motivate members. 19-6 What planning should precede a meeting? A good agenda indicates The time and place of the meeting. Whether each item is presented for information, for discussion, or for a decision. Who is...
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...Meeting 1 Type of Meeting: Planning Meeting Purpose of Meeting: Preparing for final assessment report of one of the current unit Requirements of Meeting: All participants need to be present Participants: 1. Jamal Abdul Nasir (Myself) 2. Omais Siddiqui 3. Jawwad Bhatti 4. Faraz Khan Participants Expectations: Come up with route map of developing of final report step by step. Meeting Arrangements: * Venue : Barkly College Library (Organized by one of the member) * Date : 2nd January,2013 * Communication : All participants are informed via emails and phone calls regarding venue and date of the meeting. Agenda of Meeting: * Welcome and introduction of team members with each other * Seeking advice for topic selection for final report * Assigning task to each member * Setting deadlines for each task * Deciding date with venue for next meeting following closure of meeting. * Dispatch the copies of agenda and minutes to every member. Minutes of Meeting: * Every member is present * After heated discussion final topic is decided and that is "Stress management at workplace" * Report writing strategies are exchanged * Whole assessment is divided in small sub-tasks namely preface, index, introduction, theory, case study, conclusion, appendix, compiling, printing and presentation * Each member is assigned the agreed sub-task after arguments * All group members are advised to report group leader (Me) ...
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...I really enjoyed my experience at the NA meeting. At first I was really hesitant by going to this meeting. I had preconceptions about how the meeting would go and what type of people would be at the meeting based on what I have heard in life and have seen on television. Everything that I thought I knew about NA meetings were wrong, I just simply misjudged. In my head I pictured everyone in the meeting being mandated there by the courts, being high on drugs, homeless, and just all around bad people. After getting to the meeting I felt so awful by prejudging and by going off what I have seen and heard. These people were not how I pictured them and the environment was not how I envisioned it to be. Initially, I walked into the meeting scared that I would be singled out because I was an unfamiliar face. That didn't happen at all, in fact, I was greeted by one of the members with an introduction of who they were and a hug. Before I received the hug I reached out, as I would normally do, for a handshake but instead he embraced me with an hug. This made me feel slightly uncomfortable. He mentioned to me that in NA, they do not give handshakes but instead they greet each other by giving hugs. I didn't understand why they did this until I watched the members greet one another as they walked in by exchanging hugs. I realized that...
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...important to prepare agenda before the meetings. The meetings agenda clarifies the goals and lists the points of discussion and their priority for the meeting. A well defined agenda spells out the tasks, estimate time allocated to each task, the decisions to be made and expected outcomes or deliverables. In planning the meeting and preparing the agenda, decide on a time and place that is likely to suit the schedule s and needs of the invited participants. 2. First thing is to pay attention during the meeting. As a leader you need to be in control of the meeting, to be creative, communicative, and contributive. The summary of accomplishments or wrap up stage is very helpful to review and summarize the key points which are discussed. By summarizing each point before moving to the next one, you help ensure that everyone is in agreement, remain focused, and scribe takes clear meeting notes. 3. After the meeting you are going to prepare for the next one. This means you have to prepare new agenda for next meeting, send out checkpoint memos or e-mails, especially if external team issues may impact the team`s objective or aboility to achieve the goals set. CH13 1. I think that it is possible to help this team. I think they should all focus on their own work and what they suppose to do, and everything is going to be fine. At the end they just need to put everything together 2. First I would name one person to be a leader of the group, and one observer, so everything can...
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