Unit 19 – M2
In this task, I will be comparing the effectiveness of my ‘Sparkles’ business team to the Student
Partnership Council team.
The target goal of the SPC at college is to take the student body’s needs, opinions and
suggestions into consideration and take these points forward to the higher managerial team in
order to find possible effective solutions to the spotted problem, in aim to make college life
more pleasant.
On the other hand, the objective of the idea behind the ‘Sparkles’ business is to plan and
present a successful business idea which is well structured to the rest of the class in order to
achieve and pass our task and get the grades.
Team Similarities Differences
SPC The similarity between these The SPC consists of 15 members,
two teams is the fact that we all whereas the ‘Sparkles’ team only had
underwent the Tuckman theory 5 team members, meaning that we
and experienced the four stages had to delegate the roles efficiently
which are forming, norming, to ensure that everyone had a task
storming and performing. assigned to them.
One of the major similarities is Most importantly, some ‘Sparkles’
that in both teams, we worked team members failed to attend most
towards a specific goal and we of the meetings whereas in the SPC,
have a clear achievement in there is a high level of
mind while undertaking tasks. professionalism and every member
The SPC works to be the voice of tries their ultimate best to attend or
the student body, whereas the in extreme cases, if they will not be
business idea plan was simply to present, they send apologies to the
achieve an assignment. chair.
In both teams, we can easily use In the SPC, there is a high level of
the Belbin Theory and had motivation and determination as we
shapers, coordinators, finishers, want to leave a legacy at the end of
team workers. We identified the year when we leave college.
team members based on their However, during the business idea
characteristics and thus give planning, many team members failed
them specific tasks in order to to collaborate as they saw the task
suit their ability. only as an assignment which they
could either pass or fail.
In this task, I will be comparing the effectiveness of my ‘Sparkles’ business team to the Student
Partnership Council team.
The target goal of the SPC at college is to take the student body’s needs, opinions and
suggestions into consideration and take these points forward to the higher managerial team in
order to find possible effective solutions to the spotted problem, in aim to make college life
more pleasant.
On the other hand, the objective of the idea behind the ‘Sparkles’ business is to plan and
present a successful business idea which is well structured to the rest of the class in order to
achieve and pass our task and get the grades.
Team Similarities Differences
SPC The similarity between these The SPC consists of 15 members,
two teams is the fact that we all whereas the ‘Sparkles’ team only had
underwent the Tuckman theory 5 team members, meaning that we
and experienced the four stages had to delegate the roles efficiently
which are forming, norming, to ensure that everyone had a task
storming and performing. assigned to them.
One of the major similarities is Most importantly, some ‘Sparkles’
that in both teams, we worked team members failed to attend most
towards a specific goal and we of the meetings whereas in the SPC,
have a clear achievement in there is a high level of
mind while undertaking tasks. professionalism and every member
The SPC works to be the voice of tries their ultimate best to attend or
the student body, whereas the in extreme cases, if they will not be
business idea plan was simply to present, they send apologies to the
achieve an assignment. chair.
In both teams, we can easily use In the SPC, there is a high level of
the Belbin Theory and had motivation and determination as we
shapers, coordinators, finishers, want to leave a legacy at the end of
team workers. We identified the year when we leave college.
team members based on their However, during the business idea
characteristics and thus give planning, many team members failed
them specific tasks in order to to collaborate as they saw the task
suit their ability. only as an assignment which they
could either pass or fail.
