MC-CONSULTING

“Quality Communication Consultations”

Consulting Team Report Form – Report # _1_

Team Name: EFN (Educate, Facilitate, Negotiate) Report Date: 9-14-01

Meeting Dates This Week: Monday, Sept. 10 (2:00 p.m.) and Wednesday, Sept. 12 (8:00 p.m.)

Absences: NONE

Summary of What Was Discussed / Work Done: (Use additional page if necessary)

Monday, Sept. 10 the team met to develop the 3 W’s page, which consists of who are clients will be, what valuable information our clients will gain from our negotiating training program, and where we will locate our clients. Below is the outline of the 3 W’s page our team developed.

Who: For adult women, eighteen years of age and up, who are seeking negotiating skills to achieve personal and/or occupational goals.

What: Women will gain valuable knowledge and improve valuable skills in the following areas while gaining assertiveness and self-confidence needed in everyday situations:

· Working relationships

· Leadership training

· Improved interpersonal and learning skills

· Team building and problem solving

· Decision making and management

· Bargaining power

· Personal needs

Where: EFN’s trainees can be found anywhere and everywhere. Women in college, community colleges, those who work in small or large businesses (of all kinds), etc. will benefit. It would be preferable that these women live in and/or around urban and city areas (unless they have transportation) since our training facility will be situated in these various locations.

Of course, in regards to the 3 W’s page, our team understands this is a rough draft and may need to edit, add to, or change certain aspects in which Chet sees fit.

Wednesday, Sept. 12 the team met again to discuss new information and resources all team members researched independently. During last week the team narrowed the field of our negotiating training program, and consequently needed new and additional information to work with. Because we narrowed the topic most of the material we previously had became irrelevant. We therefore began sorting through the piles of information and separated out what we no longer needed. This was a necessary task if we wish to train our clients to our best potential.

Assignments for Future Work / Deadlines:

Monday, Sept. 10 it was agreed by the team that we would independently find new resources and material needed in our learning and understanding of negotiating. We agreed to meet on Wednesday, Sept. 13 to go over new material and sort through what we needed to continue this project.

Wednesday, Sept. 13 we agreed to each read certain parts of our negotiating material independently, and during our next meeting on Monday, Sept. 17 we will educate the other team members of what we learned. This will lessen the reading load for each individual and help each other understand the material together.

Our Assessment of Team Work and Task Progress (Strengths and Weaknesses):

The teams’ strengths are as follows: each individual member is still continuing to work well with one another. We still listen as each team member expresses concerns, questions, and ideas. We all consider everyone’s ideas and collectively decide which approach to take as a team. Each team member is still completing her assigned work before the due date and has met at the scheduled meeting times.

Our weaknesses are as follows: trying to find the right material that will help us in developing our training program. We had piles of material previously, but because the team is more focused on our topic we found it necessary to get rid of and find new material. Trying to fit this process into our busy life-style is also being problematic; however, we, as a team, are confident we can improve this area and still manage to find time to handle this.

Submitted by: _____________EFN (Educate, Facilitate, Negotiate)______________________