Thursday, November 17, 2011
Exercise
In the exercise we did on Monday, I was thoroughly confused most of the time. I was part of the middle group. In the beginning, we were went to our meeting area and had no idea what we were doing. Finally, the top group came down and told us our objective. We went down to the bottom group and relayed the message and then had to go meet back up with the top group. They wanted samples of the slogans when we really didn't have enough time. In the end, I got one Goat buck and have no idea why or how. I think the exercise would have gone smoother had we had about another hour. There would have been much better communication on all levels, and more Goat bucks to go around. I think this exercise was a representation of what it is like to work at a corporation. You get orders from the top, but you don't know where they are located, they come to you. You then as managers have to relay the orders to those who work below you. However, in the work place there would be better communication.
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I definitely agree that for a lot of the time I was confused as well. I didn't know if I was in the right place, or doing the right thing for the first approximate 45 minutes. For the last half hour then we just rushed to get slogans done, because I was in the bottom group, and get them to the board of the company that was buying slogans. I agree that more time would have definitely helped, because there was very poor communication. Overall though I did like how you can see how each of the levels of the corporation, and I felt it was a good exercise.
ReplyDeleteI can also say that this exercise was very confusing as well. I was part of the National Managers' Benevolent League (NMBL) and my group was in charge of buying slogans for the cheapest possible price. We met with one group right away and explained to them what we were looking for. After that we sat there for an extended period of time until other groups came to talk to us. We were confused because we did not know if we should be looking for them or just sitting in the room. It also confused us when we were asked if we could start a company and buy their slogans instead of slogans from the known vendor, Management Power Foundation.
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