2014-1-19 Brief of our group

(1)  Group Introduction

Maggie Tang, from MSOCM, I am working in the administrative areas.  As I would like to strengthen my supervisory skills and to keep myself up to date about the business world, therefore I enrolled into this course, I hope I could learn more management knowledge and become a competent person in the competitive business environment.

Kelly Wong, student of MSCOM. I am working in Talent development field. I wish I can learn knowledge, skills and tools in team building, negotiation and conflict management though this program me. These are the competencies of manager to drive the team performance.

Lynn Xia, also student from MSCOM. I have engineering bachelor and 3 years working experience in a MNC and domestic company, about management I had very few knowledge comparing to the experienced classmates, so cannot wait to learn from them……..

(2) Group Name - Wood (木)

In the Chinese characters, there are 3 interesting words:木(wood or tree)，林(more than 2 trees, several trees)，森(forest, large area covered with trees), from the shape and the interpretation of the 3 words, we can get a hint from our ancestors who create those world which is :

Collaboration is always more than the mathematics sum of individuals.  Our logo: “W” is the begging letter of the world wood. What does it mean?  We believe that 1 piece of wood could only work things out with minimal benefits, however, with the “cluster of trees”, it becomes a forest.  Forest, as we all know, it is with great importance to the world, not only it could balance the climate of the world, but also provides the basic needs to human being, like building houses. 

We think the other way round, applying what we mentioned above of how useful of “cluster of trees” in an organization.  We believe that 1 person could not achieve an organization’s goals, however, with the “cluster of persons” working together, an organization could work things out.

Our logo, using the letter “W”, it consists of 2 letters “V”, “V” means victory, so “W” here, we interpret as “win-win” as our group’s logo, that is, the expectation from the people of what collaboration is.

 (3)Group goal for this class

Negotiation and creating values among individuals

Persuading and influencing others among group and organizations.

Design high collaboration team (team members and accountability system) and how to maintain the team.

Resolving Conflicts among Groups and organizations

Managing and Preventing Crisis by Cultivating Mindfulness & Resilience

(4) Topics excite you most

Accounting and apologizing for mistakes (Considering the cost of doing so, will everyone do that in real life?)

Negotiate among diverse individuals

Manage team conflicts.

(5) Additional topics want to learn

Some best practice of encouraging collaboration from your global perspective

The sense of collaboration is different among different generation, for instance the 90s is quite different from 80s and 70s, and how do we think of the difference, positive or negative side? Is it necessary to cultivate them and train them on collaboration and how?

How to work out collaboration across the board in a company

How to build a collaborating team

(6) Myth

“Collaboration leads to high team performance and organizational success.”

An organization strives to succeed in achieving its goal, how to work it out, it is easy, just to get the people to work together unanimously, that is what “collaboration” means.  With a team to collaborate wholeheartedly, the organization could then pave the way to succeed.

It is easy to say that people could work together, in reality, is it true?  As people have their own values, perspectives and goals, do they wish to share with others.  Don’t forget that: every one of us is working in a highly competitive environment; everyone would strive for the best for themselves. Does collaboration really easily to work it out in an organization – it’s food for thought!!