MGT-1027

Leadership and Team-Building

Skills

ASSIGNMENT-1

Report: The Best and Worst experience in teams.

BATCH- E2

MEMBERS

 Sagnik Chatterjee- 17BES7008

 E Sai Sumana- 17BEC7009
 Nilanjan Banerjee- 17BES7018
 Mridul Jain- 17BEV7003
 INTERVIEW-1

NAME: Chetas Neeraj Pattir.

A. Best experience in a team:

Description
 Chetas Neeraj Pattir is a student at VIT-AP pursuing his B.Tech
(Electronics and Telecommunication). In his 2nd year, he had the
opportunity of presenting his very own idea through a platform that
VIT-AP provided him with, Engineering Clinics.
 He worked in a team with 4 other members which had students from
CSE and Mech. The work was divided among the members of the
team according to what they were good at.

Objective:
 The aim of the team was to work together, in collaboration and with
a sense of diligence for completing the task assigned to each of the
member such that the final outcome turns out to be a project that is
very useful.
 People from different branches were assigned work that they were
taught properly for example,
 Students from CSE did the coding bit whereas Mech. did the
designing and on the other hand ECE did the circuit for the entire
setup to work.

Team Composition:
  Abilities and Willingness: So, basically, team composition refers to
the overall mix of characteristics among people in a team. This team
had Mr.Chetas who was actually the leader and led the group very
systematically to win the 3rd prize in the Clinics expo. Along with him
being very smart and supportive, his teammates were extremely
eager to do the tasks assigned to them and they did so out of their
initiative and will.
 Personalities: A combination of leadership, initiative, will and
diligence led them to a place where they are known for what they’ve
done.

Team Context:
 Trust and Collaboration: Although being assigned tasks that was
specific to their branch of study, people in the team worked in sync
such that any code or any design or any circuit that works in the
setup should not function in a way that does not match the
requirements of the proposed idea. In this way, every inch of the
project worked in such a way that every member of the team knows
how and why it is working.

Team Processes:
 Commitment and Team Efficacy: In the course of their work, there
were times when they had to go through a lot of disappointments.
Sometimes, the circuit went wrong and at times the coding part was
not up to the mark but in these times, when it felt like the project
wouldn’t work, every member of the team kept going and never gave
up. In fact, they improved over time and changed the way they would
approach any problem.
 The joint effort of the entire team made the project a great success
and as he says,
“This is my best experience in a team, so far. It felt great to work in a group where
everybody seemed to be eager to do what they’re doing and also at times when
everything seemed to go down, all of us sat together just to be there for each other
and we never gave up.”
B. Worst Experience in a team:

Description:
 Mr.Chetas had the opportunity to pitch an idea that was his very
own.
 The idea was brilliant but it required proper efforts so he tried to
form a team of 6 people.
 Soon after he started working, he realized there was a lack of trust
in his team.

Objective:
 The main goal of the team was to first present the idea and then
pitch it in way which could get him success.
 Further, the entire team had to work to build the product.
Team Composition:
 Abilities and Willingness: Even if there were people who were
able enough to do a specific job but their lack of urge to be a part
of this plan and idea led to disgraceful end of the idea.
 Personalities: No one could give a proper approach or any
method as to how to start and properly pitch the idea. Most of
them were arrogant and refused to give their opinion.
Team Context:
 Trust and Collaboration: The entire team had zero trust and
collaboration. Nobody wanted to work in a coordinated fashion,
everyone took their own pace in whatever they were doing.

Team Processes:
 Commitment and Team Efficacy: The approach to properly
present, pitch and develop the idea was ill organized and there
 were no hard deadlines. A lack of communication among the team
members led to an absolute failure of the idea.

INTERVIEW-2

Name: Harshini Jayprakash

A. Best experience in a team:

Description:
● It was an Engineering clinics project.
● There were 5 members in the team.
● All the teammates were her friends so there was a level of comfort between
teammates.
● The project was challenging because there were many new sensors used and
time was needed to be invested.

Objective:
● The team had to build an arduino based project
● The main goal of the project was to build a working prototype which helps deaf
and mute people communicate and interact to make their everyday lives easier
and more comfortable

Team Composition:
● Abilities: Three of the teammates were from CSE and handled coding part.
Other two teammates were from ECE and handled circuit, assembled all the
parts together. One person was in charge of assigning tasks on a weekly basis to
the teammates and one person was in charge of preparing PPTS and Reports.
● Personalities: All the teammates were open new ideas and liked to experiment
new methods to solve any problem occurred during the project.
● Willingness: There were 5 members on the team and all were willing to work as
a team and all worked on their tasks assigned.

Team Context:
● Resources: Team had support from project mentor and seeked help from
professors and friends to solve a difficult situation.
 ● Leadership: All the teammates agreed to the tasks assigned by their team
leader and gave their best to complete.
● Trust: Since all the teammates were friends, they had trust on each other and
could rely on another person to finish a task. This level of comfort was a great
help in finishing the project.
● Performance: All the tasks assigned were completed on time and the schedule
was properly followed by teammates to finish the project.

Team processes:
● Commitment and Establishment of Specific Team Goals: All teammates were
equally interested in the project and had a common goal of getting into top 5
projects. They were committed to the project.
● Team Efficacy: The whole project was organized properly and a schedule was
prepared before starting the project and was followed accordingly. So the team
believed that the project would be a success.
● Conflicts: When conflicts were raised, the communication between teammates
was good enough to solve the problem easily.

B. Worst Experience in a team:

Description:
● It was another Engineering clinics project.
● There were 5 members in the team.
● All the teammates were new to each other so the level of comfort was very less.
● The project was complicated and the work was new to all the teammates.

Objective:
● The team had to build an raspberry pi based project
● The goal to build a simple drone and had basic sensors but learning to work with
them was quite challenging for the teammates.

Team composition:
● Abilities: Three teammates were from CSE and tried to handle code and had to
face difficulties. One was from MECH and one from ECE handled circuit and
assembling all parts. Leader was not responsible enough to handle the project
work.
 ● Personalities: All teammates had different ideas about the approach to the
project and no one was willing to hear out others' ideas. Thus, many conflicts
were raised.
● Willingness: All the members of the team preferred to work alone and not as a
team

Team context:
● Resources: Project mentor was supportive and was helping them when they
faced difficulties.
● Leadership: Leadership wasn’t assigning any work to anyone and he was
working all by himself.
● Trust: Teammates had no trust on each other and couldn’t rely on each other for
work.
● Performance: Progress in the project was very slow and coordination among
team members wasn’t good. So, in the end project didn’t work.

Team processes:
● Commitment and Establishment of Specific Team Goals: Teammates were
not interested in the project and didn’t have a specific team goal that needed to
be achieved.
● Team Efficacy: The project work was not scheduled properly and organization
was not good enough to finish the project on time.
● Conflicts: Many conflicts were raised and members of team didn’t communicate
properly to solve the problem. Project mentor helped the team to solve the
issues.

INTERVIEW-3

Name: CV Sai Prasad

A. Best experience in a team:

Description:
 CV Sai Prasad is a student at VIT-AP pursuing his B.Tech (Electronics
and Telecommunication).
  He worked in a team of 3 members in his school days where he
participated in a poster making competition and they stood 1st in it
so we

Objective:
● The team had to make a poster on any social topics
● The main goal of the poster was to create human awareness in the society in a
mindful way.

Team Composition:
● Abilities: The members were creative enough, both in imagination and
presentation which was a boon to the team.
● Allocation of roles and responsibilities: All the teammates were assigned a
job like one had to think that how creative the poster can be,one had to do the
drawings and the other had to write things.
● Willingness: All the members were quite excited about the competition and their
willingness to work was really fascinating.

Team Context:
● Resources: The team got all the resources provided by the school and they
bought some.
● Leadership: Sai was the leader of the team and the leadership was quite good
where he assigned tasks, kept track, discussed and there was proper planning.
● Trust: Since all the teammates were friends, they had trust on each other and
could rely on another person to finish a task. This level of comfort was a great
help in finishing the poster.
● Performance: All the tasks assigned were completed on time and the schedule
was properly followed by teammates to finish the poster which resulted in
winning the first prize.

Team processes:
● Commitment and Establishment of Specific Team Goals: As all the
teammates, were very creative and willing , they all were equally committed for
the competition.
● Conflicts: There were no such conflicts due to proper communication and
coordination among the teammates.
 B. Worst Experience in a team:
Description:
 He was the captain of school football team and there was a match in
which he recalls which was his worst experience as the leader of the
team.

Objective:
● The team was appearing in a semi final match which was a knockout match.
● The main goal of the team was to reach the finals as they have put up a lot of
effort and very good performances before the match.

Team Composition:
● Abilities: Every player in the team was quite skilled to do that.
● Allocation of roles and responsibilities: All the teammates had their own jobs
like some were strikers some defenders and some midfielders
● Willingness: All the members were quite willing to win the cup .

Team Context:
● Resources: The team got all the resources provided by the school and they
bought some.
● Leadership: Although the leadership of Sai was quite good in the prior matches
but he couldn’t handle the pressure in the semi final.
● Trust: After they were 1-0 down the teammates started to lose trust in the
captain’s tactics resulting in a disaster.
● Performance: Due to the above mentioned things, the performance went down
drastically resulting in a big loss of 5-0

Team processes:
● Commitment and Establishment of Specific Team Goals: Although the
commitment was there but due to lack of coordination, trust and team-play, the
establishment of the goal didn’t happen
● Conflicts: There were severe conflicts during half-time which the captain failed
to get rid of leading to the downfall of the whole team.