Creating a Plan for Positive Influence

Creating a Plan for Positive Influence

Managers and teams are always going to be on the basis of having a positive influence in order to come out to an effective outcome for the project(s) that the team may be considering or if it is to just improve the company and its employees as a whole for better operations within. There are and will be many things that are going to come at team members when pursuing the goals and the project ahead of them.

Robbins & Judge, (2011), state, "In the world today our personalities have a way of shaping one behavior. To understand some ones behavior better within the organization, it would be a help to know something about their personality." With being assigned to each team, you come across different ideas and statements towards the project that is being worked on with that one team. Conflicts are always going to arise, especially when you get employees as team members that have different ideas, emotions, attitudes, etc., to deal with throughout the life cycle. Let's face it, not everyone in the world develops the same attitude, the same emotions or even personalities and that is what makes us different from one another. You may come across other class or career team members that carry on those same traits as you, but not normally.

Most of the team members worked with throughout the history of being a student at University of Phoenix, some have been out there to get the project going or to keep the rest of the team members focused on the project at hand, with the team leader being outgoing and ready to tackle the assignments that we had due each week for the class. Robbins & Judge, (2011), state the personality traits such as, introverted, "tends to be reserved, timid, and quiet.", whereas extraverted employees and team members are, "gregarious, assertive, and sociable." Most of the team members that were worked with, were introverted team members, considering that they did not do much to get the rest of the team motivated and engaged in the assignment(s) and were not that sociable within the group forum throughout the weeks of the course(s).

"Values are internalized attitudes about what is right and wrong, ethical and unethical, moral and unmoral." (Yukl, 2010). We all had or have different values that we were instilled with throughout our lives growing up and getting into the real world of business and school. When working with others, it's good to acknowledge the good points in that person, rather than trying to point out the flaws and pushing the project deadline farther and farther back at points in time. There were some team members that were the extraverted type, where they considered everyone's opinions within the group, gave us some room in order to choose our sections to work on and what-not on the assignments.

Attitude also comes into play, because sometimes you get the cocky students that think that just because they have been employed in these fields for years upon years, that they know and understand more than the other team members that are in the class with them. Or that they just plain think they don't know what to do and do not participate within the