This course focused on facilitation, group roles, team performance, development, and autonomous work teams. Team building set the foundations for how to effectively communicate and collaborate with others in a professional team setting. This included drafting agendas, brainstorming sessions, implementing collaboration tools such as Zoom and Teams, and project management.
I have included a project that I completed with my team where we analyzed and developed an action plan for the Sure to Peal Paint Company. This company was dealing with utilization issues and was looking for ways to reduce costs, employee hours, and smoother operations. Our resolution to this issue was to replace their current offloading vehicles with one man-controlled lifts.This plan would increase efficiency by utilizing less manpower and give the company options to increase inbound volume which will increase inventory needed to ramp up outbound production for profit as well as decrease the time it takes to unload trucks leading to less overtime costs, motor carriers’ layover/detention charges and decrease the staff needed per shift to cover less effective offloading vehicles. This solutions reduces costs and manpower for the Sure to Peal Paint Company and paves a way for increased revenue.
This project exposed myself and my team members to the foundations that make up an effective team. We learned how to properly collaborate and create positive communication climates for everyone to contribute and present ideas. These practices helped us effectively create this action plan:
Applied Administration Program Portfolio 