MC CONSULTING

“Quality Communication Consultations”

Consulting Team Report Form – Report # 3

Team Name: Team 3 Report Date: September 21, 2001

Meeting Dates This Week: We met on Sunday Sept. 16; Monday Sept. 17 during lab; Thursday Sept. 20

Absences: None

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

We revised out 3W’s during lab on Monday. During that process we greatly minimized our target audience which will help enormously. We also limited the content of our program by reducing what we were including. By doing this we will train in less areas but train them better in the areas we stick to. We assigned the different aspects of the program with Sudipta doing the basic communication skills, Cari working on problem solving, Katie working on conflict management. Cari and Katie will be working together to form both of their ideas into one major portion. We researched our individual portions. We also made a list of our objectives. Those objectives are as specific as possible for right now and we are working to meet those objectives. We have assigned those objectives to each individual.

Assignments for Future Work / Deadlines:

Our major work for the time being will be to continue researching and developing our individual sections. We are forming our outline for the program. We are each evaluating the objections and making sure it is being completely met and that all the objections tie together into a whole. We are developing some of the activities we are planning on using and making them fit the program. This Sunday (Sept. 24^th) we will start bringing our paper together after each of us have developed an individual section. We are in the process (and will finish up on Sunday) the questionnaire and the handout we will use for our Sales Pitch. We will also be working on visual aids for our presentation this week as well.

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

Our biggest problem this week was 2 out of 3 of our members had a huge Finance test today (Friday). Our meeting on Thursday was productive but it could have been more so as a huge test seemed to block our productivity path. On Monday during lab, we were extremely productive but we butted heads a bit and got discouraged because our ideas were changing. We limited our audience and a great part of our program and it was really hard to decide what aspects to get rid of. We disagrees with what to remove and what to keep, but in the end we all compromised, came to a decision, and we all have confidence in the decision we came to. So while our weakness was ambiguity and indecisiveness (with some stubbornness), our strength was overcoming those weaknesses and greatly improving our program.

Submitted by: Katie Mirsky