3 idiots.......

Together we can.....

The above lines are aptly signified by the Valley crossing activity performed in Prof. Mandi's class. An activity which tells us to support the weakest link to make the strongest chain. This activity helps us learn the importance of roles each member plays in achieving the most difficult targets.

Why Team work is important?

Well its one thing to create a team but quite an another to create teamwork in the workplace. Just its one thing to join a team, quite another to perform as a team member. To put it in simple words, teams doesn’t work without teamwork. Creating a culture where teamwork is valued, and collaboration encouraged, is a good way for businesses, sports teams, medical facilities, and really, most all human endeavors to increase the overall chances of mutual ongoing success. There are no two human beings that have the same experiences in their lives, and it is the sum of experience that “makes the man”. Just as you can never know precisely how a given situation will actually end, you can also never know how any teams endeavors will culminate either. All that can be done is to gather your team, and assign a project. Allow the leadership to come forward naturally, (usually they are quite easy to spot-vocal and opinionated) decide who should be named formally the teams leader, and begin your bigger journey.

ACTIVITY

This simple task gives lots of learning about management principles.

First of all it involves planning – This task appears simple but execution of this require carefully thought out strategy which includes assigning  roles to individuals, setting the target and proper co-ordination between the team members.

Team work – This task shows how things can be achieved through proper team work. This task in very difficult if there is only one individual but through a team of three this can be easily done. So this is all about team work 

Contribution from every individual – There is no social loafing in this case. Each and every individual has to play its part, if they have to achieve the target.

Synchronization - This is the most important principle required in proper implementation of this task. To cross the valley each and every step of all the three individuals should be properly synchronised. The speed of moving should also be in synchronism.

Other skills involved in the task

The technical skill is to able to perform the actual task .i.e. lifting the pole on the shoulder and carrying the 50% weight of one of the person and 50% weight of the pole and crossing the valley one by one with similar process of one person hanging by the pole and the others carrying the pole on their shoulders.


The conceptual skills are required to understand the aim of the whole team ,how to reach that goal ,what are the impending problems that they may come across.Planning and organizing the role of each and every person of the team is needed to reach the goal.In this case proper coordination and synchronization of the steps are very essential.For this they need a lot of planning,practise and power.


Human skills or interpersonal skills are essential to understand the psyche of each and every individual to perform the task better because ultimately it is the human beings who will be crossing the valley not any trained machines..A human being will be working with other human being who will have emotions....