Welcome to our blog

   Welcome to our blog!

   Our great international team is composed of three members: Winnie, Hugo and Kathy !

   
      Winnie is a girl from Xiamen, Fujian. She enjoys traveling and playing computer games. She still has no idea of ideal job in the future, so she comes to OCM program to find the answer.

   
      Hugo is a French guy graduated in Management and Finance, interested in working in Asia. He likes traveling and playing squash.He plans to work as a consultant.

      Kathy is a Cantonese girl graduated from Guangdong University of Technology, majoring in human resources management. Her interests are literature, music and animation.

      

        We choose to call ourselves The Three Musketeers first because of their motto “All for one, one for all” which corresponds to the spirit we want to adopt on this blog and more generally in our way of working together. Secondly, this group name fits well with our team because we are three whose a French member (country of Alexandre Dumas the author of The Three Musketeers). And finally, we would like to build a strong team relationship like they do in the book.

Here is our team logo:)

       Our goals for this class related to life and work are to learn how to apply the theories on high performance collaborations both in our daily and work lives. Performing better through collaboration is always necessary. Besides, we think we all three need to learn some interpersonal, intergroup and intercommunity communication abilities. This is still a weak point for the three of us and we want to overcome it. To finish, we would like to prove that a high collaboration leads to a more effective and efficient work because that is our deep belief.

    

       We are really looking forward to study more about persuasion and influence in organizations and also about apologizing for mistakes at work. Persuasion seems important for us because as we saw during semester one's projects, persuasion is a crucial element of team debates and achievements. Then, managing apologies looks exciting for us in the sense we faced this kind of situations in our previous work experiences and had difficulties to deal with it. Plus, it is a totally new topic that we never viewed before during our studies, where we most of the time learn how to do right but not really how to deal with a fail.

       As an additional topic, our team would easily be interested by a course on the different ways to interact with people in function of their age, gender, cultural background and language system. A class that could be called “Interacting with very different people with the right tone”.

       About the myth we would like to confirm or disconfirm, we are concerned about the relationship between team work and friendship. We all totally agree on "after a long project collaboration, relation between teammates is at an extreme".

       To discuss in depth, partners in a team sometimes become closer due to not only the same goal but also the long time they spent together. And so the friendship is highly reinforced. They understand each other very well and the agreement is high. On the contrary, too many debates or fights or too many disagreements can lead to the destruction of a friendship which existed before the team work. Besides, simply choosing teammates inside our closest friends does not guarantee high performance and could be risky to stay good friends. You plan to test this myth on ourselves.

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