Group: E9-7
Organisational Behaviour Group Assignment 1
Constructing a Group Profile
3nd February 2011
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Constructing a Group Profile
1. Defining our primary task 2. Creating a group name and logo 3. Introducing the group members 4. Setting group expectations 5. Voicing group concerns 6. Highlighting individual needs
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The primary task
The ultimate goal for the group is to maximise our professional and personal growth during the next 12 months We aim to do this by creating an environment in which we can: - Explore opportunities; - Share ideas; and - Learn from one other
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Group name and logo
Name Based on our maxim for professional and personal growth, we are Logo
ProGrow
ProGrow Steroids for your career
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Who are we?
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Jeremie Bach Jagpreet Pabla Will Sheane Kremena Stoyanova Jinzhou Yi Before INSEAD I was: An Aerospace An IT Expert in engineer in France Kuala Lumpur A management consultant based in Sydney A Solutions Quality Engineer in Singapore Persistent, patient, caring
In three words, I am:
Spontaneous, open-minded, dedicated Proud of what I achieved in the past 5 years
Curious, Adventurous, intellectual, helping intuitive, laid back Still having fun. Running my own business
In 5 years I will be:
Helping more people to get closer to their dreams People who always blame others
My number 1 pet hate is:
People that do not Soap Operas even give it one try
People who wont stop talking about themselves Capacity for fun, commercial instinct
My strengths are:
Faith in my gut Perseverance, feeling, my perspective and technical approach poetry. Trust others, get more organized
Adaptability, trustworthiness
My development needs are:
Better Time management, organization, more finance, sales / ambition. communication
Finance, marketing, presentation
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Agreed upon expectations
As a group we have committed to being:
- Prepared for all group discussions. Specifically, this means trying to have at least one opinion and one question before we start
- Considerate to each other. This means arriving punctually, engaging fully and sharing the workload fairly - Open to other opinions, and above all else, never be dismissive - As efficient a team as possible. We dont want to boil the ocean for the sake of it And last but not least, we have agreed to always arrive sober, with a smile
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Our remaining concerns
Having spent the past three weeks together, many of the initial concerns we had prior to meeting each other (i.e. personality fit, sense of humour, etc.) are no longer an issue Nonetheless, we have three lingering concerns. We must try, where possible, to avoid: - Running round in circles there have been times where we feel we are not moving forward quickly enough (of course, we also should be cognisant of any tendency to be impatient) - An unstructured approach to group work related to the previous point, our concern here is really to maximise quality discussions, and we believe a structured problem solving approach will help - Inflexibility so far we have had healthy disagreement; we do not want to trade this for less objective arguments
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Individual needs
In addition to living up to our stated expectations, and maintaining an awareness for our groups concerns, we need: - Precision from the aeronautical engineer; - Innovation from the IT engineer - Structure from the management consultant;
- Creatively from the marketing manager;
- Coordination from the quality solutions engineer; and
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