Showing posts with label Team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Team. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Are Your Boss From Hell?

Are your boss from Hell?

Or should i ask, "Will we excel under bosses from Hell?"

Why do I ask you such question?

Because ... ...

One of my favourite's reality show is here!

Hell's Kitchen Season 3

12 aspiring young chefs are put to a very tough and challenging test in this reality competition working under world famous and renowned chef Gordon Ramsay. Each chef came to participate in this competition hoping to win the grand prize of having their own restaurant in L.A and the huge sum of money. But they soon realise that in order to win the grand prize, they must go through hell first, as Chef Ramsay demands quality and expects very high standards from the chefs. After all Hell's Kitchen is well known to serve high quality fine dining to the patrons. The demands are very high from the patrons as well as they will complain with any slight fall in their expectations from the food cooked by the chefs.

Most importantly, you will also get to see what makes a great team work and learnt how to work together as a team with different personalities and working styles among the members. If you follow each episode, you will actually watch how each chef grows under Chef Ramsay's guidance even though Chef Ramsay is very fierce most of the time.

In the first episode, the ladies team told each other that they must cooperate and win the next day's competition and kick all the men in the men's team out of the competition. They promised not to back stab each other and work together. Yet, during the next day's competition, nobody in the ladies team were communicating with each other. They just focused on the workstation that they were in charge of. Because of this lack of communication, appetizers were not being served for some time and when Chef Ramsay asked if everything OK, everybody replied OK. When Chef Ramsay got angry when no appetizers of good quality were being served, then the ladies started to panic and started to communicate with each other. Even when they communicated, they were actually quarrelling with each other and defending themselves. Some refused to accept help from others and kept thinking that they are good and didn't want to look bad in front of Chef Ramsay. In the end, the whole ladies team was in chaos and Chef Ramsay blowed his top and ... ...








Don't miss a single episode of Hell's Kitchen, Channel 5, every Thursday, 12 midnight

Friday, December 8, 2006

"You're Fired!!!" --- N He is Back!!!

"You're fired!!!" -- Do you find this term familiar or unfamiliar?

This term is commonly used by ... ...


Yes, is Him!


Who else but Him!


Nobody else except Him!


He is no other than ... ...


Mr Donald Trump himself!!

And ... ...

The reality show "The Apprentice" is already BACK by POPULAR Demand!

For those of you who never watch any single episodes of this reality show before, let me give you an update of what this show is about.

This is actually a competition where a group of men and women will form two teams. Every week, Mr Donald Trump will give the two teams a project assigned by top big corporation's and MNCs and they need to do a good job within the tight deadlines. As all these top big corporations are well known internationally, definitely they will have very, very high expectations from the two teams and if the winning team's work is good, they may used the team's work and launch it commercially. So we can imagine the amount of stress that the two teams are facing every week.

The winning team will get a reward arranged by Mr Donald Trump such as having dinner in a high class prestigious restaurants, having a casual discussion with famous personalities, or having a helicopter ride, etc.

The losing team will go to the boardroom where they are supposed to convince Mr Donald Trump why they should stay in the game and why their team mate should be fired. From the "fire-fighting" going in among the team members, Mr Donald Trump will decide who should be fired and then he will do his classic move -- with his pointing finger, he will point to that particular team mate and tell the person, "you're fired!"

Sometimes, the show actually reaches its climax when Mr Donald Trump suddenly fired more than one team mates.

So this will continue every week until there is only two contestants left in the show. Mr Donald Trump then assigns a project to each of them that is organized by the Trump Organization. Mr Donald Trump will also assign a team of people to these two contestants and usually this team of people were those who were fired in previous episodes. When the projects were completed, the two contestants will go back to the boardroom where they will convinced Mr Donald Trump to choose them as The Apprentice. The winner who is given the title will be in charge a major project by the Trump Organization and all projects under Trump Organization are major scales and worth millions of dollars. Imagine the prestige and status when one won the title of the Apprentice.

What is so attractive about this show that entice me to try my best to watch it every week when I am not working?

Beside words of wisdom that Mr Donald Trump will advise every week that is related to the projects that the teams are working on, what is most important is when you observe how each team member behaves.

Through each member's behavior, one can actually find a streak of similarity in your working colleagues, your boss and yourself. And through observation, one can learn from others by studying what are the rights and wrongs that they did that led to the success or failure of the project.

From there, you will get to understand what should one do and how should one behave in order to encourage team cohesiveness and encourage the team to strive hard for the common goal of the company.

One can understand different people's personalities as well and aware what should one do when one needs to work with a team mate with such personality.
Though it is just a simple competition, there are a lot of knowledge that can be gained when you think more deeply and be more observant when the game is on.



SO REMEMBER, FROM 15TH OCTOBER, EVERY SUNDAY, 10.30PM, THE APPRENTICE.
DON'T MISS IT. IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE MISSED!
And it is coming to the END soon!!
Don't Miss this Opportunity!


PS: Mr Donald Trump has formed an online university named the Trump University. You can surf the website to find out more about the courses and also signed up for the newsletter where there will be newsletter email to you periodically and from there, you can learn more and widen your perspective about many aspects of business and others too.