I Have Gained Valuable Knowledge And Experience

Working on teams, I have gained valuable knowledge and experience. Participating on a team has been both rewarding, and daunting. Honestly, I tend to deter from teams. Experience, has taught me, not having the opportunity to vet your fellow team members, may lead to problems. Participating team members don’t always carry their own weight. You get people acting like, being there is contribution enough. Another type of team member that is a micromanager. Wanting to micromanage team members each and every move. Then there is the person who does not want to share their work with the rest of the team. Procrastinators, bring their part of the project late, making the entire group project late. Introverts, have good ideas, but any response or input from them needs to be extricated from them. I have had the opportunity, of working with all of these types of people and others.

I must say it has been a learning curve for me. I have been a team leader, team player and I have even had to do all the work, for the team . If you are working with a team you just need to sit back and observe during your meetings who fits into what roles the best. This is not an easy task. You have people who want to be the leader just because they think the leader has the easiest job. The leader has the most difficult job on the team. They need to be diplomatic, neutering, caring, organized and willing to help when needed. Leader’s also need to make difficult decisions. Keeping in mind, they need to do what is best for the team, to succeed at their mission. Being on a team also means putting your person feeling aside to help the team succeed. Speaking from experience I have worked with people that I personally did not like, or care for b...

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...r in accounting. Yes I have found that these plans may and do change. This due to influences both internal and external in my life.

Yes, I have learned techniques from this course. Realizing that I have already been utilizing the techniques, at home and in school Courses. I have applied some of the organizational management skills. Planning, setting goals and deciding how to achieve them. Organizing, arranging task and people to accomplish the work. Leading, Motivate, direct and influence people and myself work hard to achieve goals. Controlling, monitoring performances compared to goals and take corrective action as needed. In reading, I have learned quite a bit about management and have found this course to be quite enlightening. I am sure I will be able to learn even more techniques that I will apply in the future, to assist me in achieving my goals.