MC CONSULTING
“Quality Communication Consultations”
Consulting Team Report Form – Report # 2
Team
Name: Beth, Jenny, Matt, & Craig Report Date: September 11, 2001
Meeting
Dates This Week: Monday, Tuesday
Absences: None
Summary of
What Was Discussed / Work Done: (Use additional page if necessary)
We
finalized our topic as being improving superior – subordinate
communication. Afterwards, we
brainstormed a long list of possible session topics. We were able to further divide our main topic into three
subtopics – leadership, interpersonal communications, and team building. Almost all of the concepts on our
brainstorming lists fit into one of these three categories. We are now discussing how many sessions we
should divide these topics into. We are
also in the process of deciding on an appropriate team name.
Once
we had decided on our subtopics, we easily found that each one of us had
background knowledge on one of subjects.
Therefore, we each “adopted” a topic as our main focus and we will
research that topic primarily, while also filling in the holes in the other
members’ information.
We
also decided on our three Ws. Our “who”
is going to be all members of a particular corporation. We may choose to divide a few sessions into
groups based on position, but we feel it is important to have all members of a
company learn to interact as equals on a certain level. Our “what” is effective superior –
subordinate communication. We feel that
it is crucial to a company’s success that all employees practice open
communication on every level. This
would encourage trust among employees, as well as boost company morale overall
– which is correlated to an increase in productivity. Our “where” is any company in urban areas. We have yet to define the size of the
companies we plan to target.
Assignments
for Future Work / Deadlines:
Our
group is meeting later this evening to research in the library and further
discuss ideas for specific training sessions.
Our current goal is to decide upon the most appropriate session topics
for our target audience. We are going
to spend the evening doing some basic research on a broad range of topics in
order to choose our areas of focus.
Several of us also have plans to reference old professors and other
campus professionals with experience in the subject matter.
Our
Assessment of Team Work and Task Progress (Strengths and Weaknesses):
So
far, we have been in lucky in being able to identify the strengths of our
team. For instance, each one of us has
direct experience with at least one of our chosen focus areas. One team member even has experience in
developing training programs due to previous campus work in the area. The team is very resourceful as well. Everyone has offered input as to places to
look for information and ideas to consider.
Our
weakness may turn out to be that we may rely too heavily on personal experiences
and knowledge over information found in the library or from other sources. Another weakness is that although we have
some knowledge of training programs, no one has experience in adult
training programs. We will probably
have to do more research on developing training sessions for adults than on our
actual training topics.
Submitted
by: Beth Tourek