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Old 05-07-2013, 20:32
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Good evening candidates and welcome to the task three boardroom. This week you had a little bit of a change and we're about to see who has risen to the challenge.

How are candidates feeling?
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:34
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Hi, LAS, and thanks for inviting us in. I personally feel good about the parts of our packages I have seen and my pitch, so I hope it works well for us overall.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:34
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Good evening Lady Sugar!

It was definitely a challenging task, but I was really happy with how it all went in the end, and how my team performed
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:34
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Evening Lady Sugar. I'm feeling good.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:35
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Good evening!

I'm feeling good!
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:35
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Good Evening.

I'm fantastic, thank you!
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:35
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Hello Lady Sugar

I feel good, I think that our team worked really well together and came up with three very professional packages and I think that we put a lot of work into the task
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:36
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Good evening Lady Sugar

I think this task went really well, the team really came together and I believe the ideas and pitches we had/did were solid.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:36
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Let's begin with Helios this week. How did you all find Tyjet as a PM?
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:36
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Hello LAS

I think the team I was apart of did really well in this task and performed overall to a high standard and the presentations we did as well were rather good as well I believe
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:39
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I would say Tyjet was a good Project Manager.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:39
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Let's begin with Helios this week. How did you all find Tyjet as a PM?
Tyjet did a good job. I wasn't completely confident about the way he was going about the figures, but other than that I was really happy with him.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:39
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I would say Tyjet was a good Project Manager.
Care to expand?
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:40
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I thought that Tyjet did the best he could given the circumstances of having AWOL team members and a hard time contacting a few other people. Overall, there's not much in my opinion that he could have done better, per say, but I don't think he was exemplary.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:41
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He performed well as a member of the team, and was assertive enough to be Project Manager. Particularly on the first day.

That being said, I do think, similarly to George, he did overthink a LOT when it came to the figures and he not only managed to confuse himself but the entirety of the team.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:43
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So-so feedback for Tyjet, then.

And Harmonia, how was Niall as a PM?
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:46
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Niall was quite a good PM. He knew what needed to be done, he took in everyones opinions about the areas we chose, assigned us to the pitch which we think we'd work best and overall was quite good PM
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:46
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Niall was an excellent PM, in my opinion. He made sure that everyone's opinions were taken into consideration, divided the work up evenly, seemed to identify people's particular strengths when he was allocating the various parts of the task to every member and overall, he was there as often as possible. In short, he definitely had the task well under control and managed the team effectively and fostered a very positive working environment.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:47
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So-so feedback for Tyjet, then.

And Harmonia, how was Niall as a PM?
I think Niall did a good job as PM. He structured the task well, and was organised. As I said in my task evaluation, the only real criticism I could give him was that he did take his eye off the ball on a couple of occasions - one of them being the failure to notice that we needed to change the pricing for one of the activities. I do think part of it though was due to us being undecided on when the packages would take place, so I don't blame him for getting confused in that instance.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:48
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So-so feedback for Tyjet, then.

And Harmonia, how was Niall as a PM?
I think Niall did a good job. He delegated the tasks well and to people's strengths, he was available a lot of the time for us to respond to and I felt he motivated us well. My only criticism of him was his lack of control in the middle of the task mostly during Wednesday when it took him AGES to finish and send links of each thing in our holiday package for all three of our pitches (I had to do the costings for it).
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:49
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As I said in my task evaluation
Um, what happened about the task evaluations? I never got one, but Amy obviously did...
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:50
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Um, what happened about the task evaluations? I never got one, but Amy obviously did...
Zak sent us a PM saying to use the same one from the previous tasks, George.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:51
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Zak sent us a PM saying to use the same one from the previous tasks, George.
He only sent the message to Tyjet, yourself & I.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:51
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Zak sent us a PM saying to use the same one from the previous tasks, George.
I didn't get a PM about it. Just rechecked to make sure.
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Old 05-07-2013, 20:57
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Um, what happened about the task evaluations? I never got one, but Amy obviously did...
Apologies for that George, there was obviously an oversight.

So, onto the task and the pitches.

Helios chose Ecuador as their destination. Definitely an unexpected choice. What was the inspiration behind this idea?
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