Introduction
I am a clinical specialist with know-how on hospital imaging equipment like CT and MRI scanners. I have worked for this company for the last four years within which my area of specialty has been the virtual environment with team members who live within the United States. However, my team members have since been re-deployed. It is my sole responsibility to train the doctors, nurses, and technicians on how the equipment aforementioned is supposed to be used once my sales associates have sold the devices to them. Because the team members I was previously working with have been re-assigned, I will be working with you guys: Sally, medical device sales associate, Juan, physician research director, Alik, equipment installment supervisor, and Vivian, corporate office secretary as part of my new team. We are supposed to have a teleconference later in the week on how we should hit the ground running. That is the main reason for my writing this E-mail to you guys.
Goals for the group
Because of the reshuffle, I am the only individual who has experience with the demands of this region. I had expected that before the teleconference coming later in the week, you figure out which area you can best fit in so that it becomes clear who is capable of doing what. It is pertinent that we move quickly and start producing so that we meet our targets.
Self-managed team
Self-managed team members should share an organization’s vision of better product and service delivery. Members of a team have to be committed to the vision by mastering its aspects. This should be an ongoing process. Members should come up with contemplated mental models that are very pivotal in an organization’s learning process. Team members must show a lot of commitment to the system’s approach. Members of the self-managed teams should be responsive to changes and open to emerging challenges. Nevertheless, the team is expected to be aware of complex and myriad alternatives that come to their ways.
As a self-managed team, we should have a positive belief in our potentials as we also try to prioritize system orientation. The team should identify problems, gather the required data about it, and initiate the kind of action that should be put in place to rectify the situation while gradually assessing its progress (Drucker 1). If some adjustments in terms of problem-solving are needed, then the required parameters should be put in place by the team. Actions taken to correct a wrong should be tailor-made for that particular situation. Teams can be agents of change in our organization.
Decision-making process
Our model of organizational behavior will be collegial where a lot of teamwork will take center stage. The sales associates and the managerial team will work as a team. The employees are required to carry out themselves in an honorable way so as not to scandalize the company’s name. When decisions are to be made, the input of the employees has to be sought.
Work Cited
Drucker, Patrick. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Print.