Group Leading Challange

In my first year of work there was a Project that all new comers (new grads) were attented.

The Project was about finding weak features and suggesting new ideas on one of the apps that

individual teams have.

Each group had one team leader and I was one of them. Every team was approximately 20-30

people. Managing that many people and coming up with an good consequences was not an

easy thing for me. We had 1 full day to be together. However before that day we learnt our

app had a time thing and work on it. However, the majority of the work remains on meeting

day and team leaders picked up just a very short period of time. We also have in each team a

supervisor.

The tool that we used for come up with new and vital ideas was dividing our teams into

smaller pieces and making contest among each other. By doing that every team had list of

ideas and every team had to give points foe each idea and in on shot 1 team was graded. And

winner team will have free meal as reward. I choice this method because interaction among

people and graded by others is crucial thing for team issues. It has passion, excitement and

fun.

We had 4 teams and had a half day to thing as a group. We also have some rules if someone

violates it than this person’s group will take minus one point ahead. The rules are like entering

each others room for interrupting and cheating. We have common areas for rest and some

snacks in that area and also one could get fresh area. However longer than 20 min breaks were

not allowed. I was also in one of teams and also checking at my breaks the other for not

permitting the violations. However it was not an easy thing and was hard to focus

everybody’s focus for this event.

For applying this contest model for bringing up new ideas was an good choice I think.

Otherwise, managing the process by 20 people could not be an affective way.

The teams were arranged by their own wish. However at some points it made concentration

difficult. Fort he next time I will arranged groups randomly to get and better concentration

and as a result better work.

