In the article “How to link personal values with team values” it talks about understanding the difference between personal values and team values. Companies Levi Strauss, AT&T, and Nordstrom conducted research to see the desired values and commitment to strategy goals. They found that some core values are integrity, competence, teamwork, and communication. When I was in my workplace over summer, these values were critical as we wanted everyone to feel like they all mattered. Having these values made us all a better team together and we got to meet each other’s standards which gave us successful days. Assessing techniques for personal and team values is also very important. This involves workplaces using surveys to identify different things that are important. In the article you learn how to conduct a values workshop. Over Summer, at a training, I shared my values with my team to then learn theirs. This allowed us to create a list of shared values we have together which allowed us to learn more about each other. Not only did this grow a bond between some people, we got to see the goals people wanted to accomplish while working. When creating values, it is important to make a list of each value. This can create a clear understanding for people who may not understand it. While working, we created a list of all the values we carry when we are an employee and what each value represents. This made us realize how we are not only impacting ourselves or each other, but all the families we made bonds with over the course of the ten weeks, and how we can reach their standard of values. 

https://moodle-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu/pluginfile.php/654176/mod_resource/content/3/Jaffe_Link_Personal_Values_Team_Values.pdf

While reading the article “40 years of storming: a historical review of Tuckman’s model of small group development” I learned about the importance of Bruce W. Tuckman’s model. The model goes through five different stages and each one has a significant impact. In college, doing group work has been a big role in many of my classes. I have experienced all these stages while working in a group project in college whether it is forming all the way to adjourning. In one of my classes last semester we had a whole semester project that we were assigned to us at the beginning of the semester. The professor had chosen our designated groups, so we didn’t know the types of people we would be working with. I remember once we got our assigned groups, I sent an email out to everyone and tried scheduling a date where we could all meet and start to form our project. That worked very well as every group member attended and we all got to meet each other and figure out our goals for the project. Another step that was seen a while in our project was the “norming”. We were discussing how we want to assign our tasks and figure out who was responsible for completing what. This allowed us to stay organized and get everything we needed done in a timely manner. After learning about this model, I can now go about group projects by using these things, as they can help solve problems within a group. These stages showed how they have impacted various fields and how much the model has evolved throughout our lifetime. 

https://moodle-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu/pluginfile.php/654178/mod_resource/content/2/40%20Years%20of%20Storming%20Tuckman.pdf

The second article I chose was “How to Live With Purpose, Identify Your Values and Improve Your Leadership”. This article stood out to me when it stated “Values give us our sense of purpose. On a leadership level, when we align with our values on a daily basis, we have more energy and feel more fulfilled because we are leading from what’s important to us”. For the past 2 ½ years, I have been leading an intramural basketball team every semester at NC State. This gives me valuable leadership skills as I have had to find a good team who wants to compete with a chance to win an intramural championship. Leading this team has given me good value as it gives me happiness each time we win, and has allowed me to meet many new people while having a good time. While being on this team, you have to manage your time wisely if you have homework, or an important test the next day. I feel as if I have learned great leadership skills through this experience. If something comes up, I am the one in charge of emailing the recreation department and hoping for a response. Intramural basketball allowed me to come out of my shell as a little freshman in 2022, and has made me a better leader. Even if there is something as silly as intramural basketball raising someone’s value, and allowing you to identify their purpose, it has taught me ways to improve my leadership skills and how I can use them in any environment I may need to use them in. 
Loehr, Anne. “How to Live with Purpose, Identify Your Values and Improve Your Leadership.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 7 Dec. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-live-with-purpose_b_5187572.

For module 1 of SLC 300, we were assigned to read three different articles. The first article that stuck out to me was the “Forbes- Top 10 Qualities That Make a Great Leader”.  The most important quality to me in this article is communication. The article states, “Being able to clearly and succinctly describe what you want done is extremely important. If you can’t relate your vision to your team, you won’t all be working towards the same goal”. This past Summer, I was a counselor at the YMCA. We have a large team of counselors that come together and make day camp as fun as possible. In order for this to run smoothly, we needed to all have great communication and be on the same page with each other. If there was any day where we were not communicating, you could tell as different age groups were intertwining within each other when they weren’t supposed to be. Having great communication at the Y I believe is the number one priority when making it a successful day. If there was anything I saw that was ever an issue, I would go communicate my concern to my head directors and talk within ourselves and figure out the best decision. Talking to kids’ parents was also a huge part of our job, so having top notch communication with them was key. We wanted to showcase our communication skills to the parents by starting conversations during rides in/rides out. Family nights had the counselors in the spotlight as communication was most important then. 

Myers, T. (2018). Forbes – Top 10 qualities that make a great leader. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forbes-top-10-qualities-make-great-leader-tedson-myers-cpa-mba/

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