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LCXX54 Communicating for Personal and Team Effectiveness

Name: Shyakirah Ummi Nadhilah Admin No.: 2239349 Class: DMB1B/04 AY/Sem: Sem 2 S/N: 16

CA1: Written Assignment (20% weighting) Template

Your written responses must cover the 4 areas listed below. It should contain original thought and be
written in your own words. It should also be supported with specific examples from your SP Club project.

Your responses should consist of at least 150 words per question and not exceed 1200 words in total
for all questions. Please indicate the word count at the end of each question.

1. What is your personality and life goal? [25m]

Your answer should:
a. describe your DISC personality profile,
b. highlight at least 1 strength based on that profile and explain how the strength is useful to your SP
Club team/project,
c. highlight at least 1 weakness based on that profile and explain how you intend to manage the
weaknesses to help the team, and
d. state your own SMART goal and the motivating factor for this goal.

NOTE: This question tests your ability to (i) identify your personal strengths and weaknesses, (ii) list strategies to overcome
weakness (iii) describe how your personal strength can contribute towards the achievement of team goals, (iv) set up personal
goals and (v) understand the types of motivational factors affecting personal goal-setting.

a) My DISC Personality profile are a blend of Supportive and Cautious trait. With
supportive being stronger than cautious.

b) One strength highlighted is that I am a collaborator. This would be useful to my

SP Club team as teamwork is key to being able to achieve a goal. If none of the
teammates can communicate and help each other, the team’s efficiency would be
low.

c) One weakness is that I conflict so I would stand down in fear of offending others.
This is a weakness as it would mean I am too afraid to speak up my own opinions.
How I would manage my weakness is getting to know my teammates by bonding
with the team to understand them. I could bond with them through having lunch
or going out with them. Talking to the more about school with them. This would
make me feel more comfortable in speaking my opinions and views out.

d) SMART goal
S – I need to build up my confidence with my teammates.
M – I would do this by bonding with them and getting to know them more.
A – It is achievable since I see them often in school and are in the same group as
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 them. They also have similar interests and backgrounds hence I can assimilate with
them better.
R – This solution makes sense as I would feel more confident and comfortable with
them to speak out.
T – I need It done before we start our project by 1 Dec 2022

My motivating factor is me wanting to finish this project with a great and achieve
greater heights with this team. I do not want to feel left out and not put in my best
effort into this group project.

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2. What is your SP Club project and what role do you play in it? [25m]
Your answer should:
a. state your team’s SP Club SMART goal,
b. give a brief description of the team project
c. state your role in your team
d. list at least 2 tasks that come with this role, and
e. state the deadlines by which these tasks should be completed.

NOTE: This question tests your ability to (i) set up team goals, (ii) identify your own roles and responsibilities and their
contributions towards the achievement of team goals, (iii) understand strategies to link one’s roles and responsibilities for
individual and team success and (iv) plan and complete personal tasks to meet team goals according to timelines set.

A) My SP Club SMART Goal

S – Provide an efficient and useful transportation for students to get around school easier.
M – Doing a survey from SP students, we can recognize the needs and desires from
students regarding a transport within school premises.
A – We should be able to get funding from school and keep cost as low as possible to be
able to run this transportation.
R – Market to SP students, especially handicapped
T – Time span is 2 months and deadline will be 31 January 2022 from 1 December 2022.

B) Our team project is to find a solution for students to get around the school easier,
especially handicapped, or disabled students who may it harder to get around
school. We decided to use buses to get around school which also can
accommodate

C) I am in-charge of logistics for this campus transportation project. Two tasks I am

specifically in-charge of is

D) 1. Find the best appropriate type of bus from a suitable company that can help to
accommodate all the needs for the students in SP.
2. Find where to get a responsible driver from a well-known company that can safely
drive the bus.

E) The deadlines are respectively 7 December 2022 and 10 December 2022.

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3. What challenges will you and your team face in meeting the team’s goal? [25m]
Your answer should:
a. state 1 other commitment you have (work, CCA, relationship, etc.) that could create stress for you
and explain how it could affect your team/project.
b. identify at least one distraction you experience and
c. state one project-related or team-related factor (other than distractions) that could prevent the
team from achieving the goal. Explain how the team/project would be affected.

NOTE: This question tests your ability to (i) recognise symptoms of and deal with stress to maintain work effectiveness, (ii) identify
issues related to personal and family responsibility and their impact on work,(iii) understand various barriers to effective time
management and their characteristics and (iv) understand the factors that may affect the achievement of team goals.

a) I faced work commitments hence I would miss out on meetings or am tired during
meetings. This is stressful as I fear that I may not contribute enough, and my
teammates are being overworked because of me. How it affects my team is that I am
not too involved and unable to provide fair and equal amount of effort. Me not being
there reduces the efficiency.
b) One distraction of mine is gaming. I have a hobby of gaming a lot with my friends and
playing late at night too. I realized that it distracts me sometimes from schoolwork as I
would priorities my nights to play games than do work.
c) Different strong opinions. Sometimes a group may be divided into two because of
them not being to communicate or come up with a solution to pick one opinion for
the project. This would cause the group to not move forward and not have any
progress in their work.

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4. How will you achieve alignment? [25m]

Your answer should:
a. explain whether your personal goal is in line with the team goal
o If yes, describe two methods/tools that you would advise your team members to use to enable
them to meet the team’s goal and/or manage their time better
o If no, describe two methods/tools you could use to enable you to meet the team’s goal and/or
manage your time better
b. state at least one benefit you will experience by aligning your goal to the team’s goal.
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NOTE: This question tests your ability to (i) understand various types of paraphernalia, technology and methods to manage time
and work priorities and their features and (ii) understand the benefits of prioritising tasks according to team goals.

a. Yes, my personal goal is aligned with the team as we are able to understand we all
have a common goal of helping the school by providing our solution.
1. One method to use a shared calendar using the app called “Time Tree”. Using this all-
platform app, we can use it see everyone’s expected deadlines. We are also able to
put in our free days and busy days, so we can plan efficiently our meeting and
important dates.
2. Another method is to constantly update each other on a website called Monday.com.
This platform allows us to constantly be updated with each other progress without
any hassle of texting. It allows all of us to be transparent and be able to efficiently
understand the team’s progress.
b. One benefit to align your goals with the team’s goal is being able to find and have a
common understanding between all of us that can move our visions into a reality.
This is a sort of motivation and bond that a team can have that can benefit the team’s
effort by being able to help each other and work well together to achieve a common
goal.

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