【Practical training project 3】

Paper cups water transfer

【Task object】

Help students understand the importance of team building in the game.

【Task content】

(1) Prepare 10 disposable paper cups and one bottle of mineral water for each group.

(2) Group members line up and pass a bottle of mineral water with their mouths.

【Task requirement】

(1) Prepare 10 disposable paper cups and one bottle of mineral water for each group.

(2)  Move the desks and chairs to both sides of the classroom to leave the middle space for games. The group members stand in a row, and each member bites the paper cup with his mouth.

(3) Pour the mineral water into the paper cup of the first member, and the first member pours the water into the paper cup of the second member with his mouth. Do not touch the paper cup with your hand, nor pour the water onto the ground until the last member.

(4) The last member pours water into a paper cup on the chair.

(5) In the process of transmission, it is required to save the game process by means of photos or videos.

(6) The group that takes the least time to complete the delivery of a bottle of mineral water is the excellent team and gets extra points.

(7) The activity time is 40 minutes.

【Task organization】

Table5-5   Paper cup water transfer task organization table

【Task evaluation】

Table5-6     Paper cup water transfer task evaluation form

Team construction of a medical enterprise

A medical equipment manufacturer, ready to organize research and development of a new equipment used in the operating room.Therefore, from the relevant design, production, project, sales and other departments of a technical personnel, formed a special action team.The working group was asked to complete the research and development of the new product within three months.

Four members of the team after receiving the task, the basic understanding of the requirements, they were prepared.The technical department will design the drawings in one month.During the production, the production technician gave feedback to the designer that the equipment was used in the operating room. The electromagnetic environment in the operating room had complex frequency and high intensity, so whether electromagnetic interference should be considered was not clearly replied by the designer, so the production was carried out according to the drawing.After getting the samples, as the project cycle was approaching, the team hastily decided to adopt the method of testing after users' purchase to determine the performance of the products. Therefore, the sales staff took the samples to relevant units for trial sale within half a month and obtained the first order of 3000 units.The delivery period is one month.

On the face of it, the task force has done its job in two and a half months, but difficult issues have surfaced since the order was signed:

1. Production equipment capacity is insufficient, requiring the project to purchase new equipment.According to the project feedback, the procurement cycle of new equipment is 15 days, plus debugging and trial operation, it takes at least 20 days to ensure use.Due to the delivery date of the new products, the production can only be arranged before the delivery of the new equipment, and work overtime on other equipment to ensure the daily output of 100 pieces.

2. Due to insufficient consideration of the equipment delivery cycle, the production only arranged 2 operators to learn the production of new products, and did not arrange special process personnel to convert process documents.Lead to early production can only rely on oral teaching, because there is no process documents can refer to, resulting in uneven product quality.

3. After the first batch of products were delivered, we received a large number of orders before receiving feedback due to the long service cycle.Three months later, the first batch of users to buy feedback, product quality is not good, poor anti-interference, a large number of products require maintenance and return.At this point, the late order has been delivered to the customer, which means the same problem will occur.

4. In order to remedy the design defects, experts were invited to optimize the anti-interference performance of the products. The final product design changed greatly, and the equipment purchased before could not meet the production requirements.At the same time, the sales conveyed the customer's opinion: due to the product performance problems, the industry has a poor response to this product, resulting in no follow-up orders.

What causes the demise of a new project?We might as well look at it from the following aspects:

1. Not having a clear goal.Or mistaking the short-term goal of designing a new product in a given time frame for a long-term goal.Therefore, in order to ensure the realization of short-term goals, the wrong choice of "testing after user purchase to determine product performance" was adopted in the later stage.

2. Not sharing information.When there is a problem in the design, the problem is only reported to the designer, the project and sales staff are not aware of it, and without knowing it, it is easy to make orders and equipment procurement plans.If the information is shared, maybe the doubts from other departments will influence the designers to reconsider the problem of electromagnetic radiation resistance, thus avoiding the final collapse of the whole project.

3. No co-participation.On the surface, the four members are involved in the research and development of new products, but in fact, they are independent and only act within their narrow sense of responsibility, and do not participate in other links closely connected with their own responsibilities.As a result, there are defects in each link of new product development, which ultimately leads to the failure of the whole product.

In addition to these points for measuring high performance teams, it is also easy to see that there is no team leader appointed at the beginning of the project, so there is no reasonable delegation;The team recklessly chose the wrong product trial option because it did not want to face the responsibility of a short term deadline.

Catfish effect

Spaniards love to eat sardines, but sardines are very delicate, very uncomfortable to leave the sea after the environment.When the fishermen put the newly caught sardines into the fish tank back to the dock, it doesn't take long for the sardines to die.Dead sardines taste bad and sell poorly. If sardines are still alive when they arrive in port, the fish can be sold for several times more than the dead fish.In order to prolong the life of sardines, fishermen try to make the fish arrive at the port alive.Then the fishermen came up with a plan to put a few catfish, the sardines' enemy, in a transport container.Because catfish are carnivorous fish, when put in the tank, catfish will swim around looking for small fish to eat.In order to avoid being eaten by predators, sardines speed up naturally, thus maintaining their vitality.In this way, the sardines come bouncing back to the fishing port. 

[inspired]

This is known in economics as the "catfish effect". 

In fact, the same applies to people.A company, if the personnel fixed for a long time, lack of vitality and freshness, easy to produce inertia.Especially some old employees, working for a long time is easy to tired, tired, rely on senile, so it is necessary to find some foreign "catfish" to join the company, create some tension.When employees see that their positions are filled with "professional killers", they feel a sense of urgency and know that they need to step up or they will be killed.As a result, the enterprise is naturally vibrant. 

In order to survive and thrive in times of stress, worriers must work harder than others, and the harder they work, the faster they run.Proper competition acts as a catalyst, which can bring out the maximum potential in people.

Tower of Babel

According to the Old Testament, the ancestors of mankind initially spoke the same language.They found a very fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and settled down there, built cities, and built the prosperous city of Babylon.As their times improved and the people became proud of what they had done, they decided to build a tower in Babylon that would reach to the sky, to proclaim their fame and to serve as a sign to gather all the brothers in the world together so that they would not be scattered.Because everyone spoke the same language and worked together, the stepped Babel was built very smoothly and soon reached the sky.When the Lord God learned of it, he came down from heaven and inspected the earth.God saw, surprised and angry, because God does not allow mortals to reach their own height.He saw how unified and powerful the people were, and he thought, if people spoke the same language, they could build such a great tower. What could not be done in the future?So God decided to make the language of the world a mess so that people could not speak to each other. 

People speak different languages, their feelings can not be exchanged, it is difficult to unify their thoughts, it is inevitable that there will be mutual suspicion, different opinions, quarrel and fight.This is the beginning of misunderstandings between human beings. 

Construction stopped because of language disputes, human power disappeared, Babel finally abandoned. 

[Case Analysis]

Without tacit understanding, team performance cannot be brought into play, while there is no communication and consensus cannot be reached.As a leader, you should be able to take advantage of any communication opportunities and even create more communication channels to fully communicate with your members.Only when leaders start from themselves, uphold the spirit of dialogue, inspire employees to express opinions and discuss in a methodologically and hierarchically way, and collect experience and knowledge, can team consensus be consolidated.Only when the team has consensus, can the strength of the members be stimulated and the members be willing to devote themselves to building the Babel of the enterprise. 

A man will soon fall behind in life if he does not communicate with his companions at all times.

The ass of bombs

According to an ancient Greek fable, a donkey got so hot that he tried to learn how to sing to the very cockroaches that very often sang.So the cockroach told the donkey, "Learn to sing, but you must eat dew every day like I do."So the donkey listened to the cockroach advice, daily dew to eat the cockroach, the result, a few days later, the donkey starved to death. 

It's a cruel story to tell, but there are plenty of people like donkeys in real life.As an entrepreneur, if you also rely on a temporary interest, a temporary hobby to do things, just think, the result will be better than the donkey where to go? 

Feeling is something of an emotional thing, and business owners who develop products based solely on feeling are going into a blind spot. 

Neither nature nor blind innovation should be allowed in the management of enterprises. Managers should first identify their own position, otherwise, any "by feeling" management is just an irresponsible game for enterprises. 

Business is a community, and bosses should not follow their gut.

Long chopsticks

In ancient times, God created man.As the number of human beings increased, God began to worry. He feared that the disunity of human beings would cause chaos in the world, thus affecting their stable life.To test whether have the unity between human consciousness of cooperation, mutual help, god made a test, he put the human is divided into two batches, in front of each group of people have put a lot of delicious food, however, has sent everyone a pair of slender chopsticks, asking them to within the prescribed period of time, eat all the food on the table, and do not have any waste.       

When the game began, the first group of people went their own way. They tried their best to pick up food with chopsticks and put it into their mouths. However, the chopsticks were too long to reach their mouths.       

's second batch of humans began to turn, they did not rush to send food into his mouth with chopsticks, but sitting together into a circle, with their own chopsticks to get food to the man sitting opposite his mouth, and then, by the man sitting opposite his use chopsticks to take food to his mouth, and in this way, Everyone ate the whole table in the allotted time and wasted nothing.The second group not only enjoyed the delicious food, but also gained more trust and goodwill from each other.God looked and nodded, hopeful.       

But the world is not always perfect, so God put five words on the back of the first group of human beings: self-interest is against others;And on the back of the second group of people affixed another five words, that is good for others and selfish!