(TSA) Teamwork (Lesson)

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Teamwork

Introduction

Graphic of multiple hands joined together Working Together. Designing and developing engineering projects require the skills and contributions of many individuals to develop a quality product on time.

TSA provides the opportunity for interested students to work together to envision, plan, complete, and demonstrate interesting projects within a specified schedule. Since working together requires well thought-out collaboration with the entire team, TSA has structured club meeting processes to encourage full participation in decision making with an orderly fair process. 

 

Characteristics of Teamwork

Just like sports teams, most projects require individuals with different roles working together toward a common goal. Every player must be performing in concert with the team and under agreed leadership guidance for the team to be successful. And as in sports, engineering projects require individuals that are prepared for the task with the right attitudes to cooperate, learn, contribute, follow direction, and encourage the team. Proper work ethics must be understood and consistently demonstrated when involved with plans, processes, and projects.

How can you be a better team player?

 

Review

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Takeaway

History of Parliamentary Procedure

Gavel Rules of order for public meetings, or Parliamentary Procedure, originated in the early British parliaments. The earliest record of written rules for order was published in 1583 for the British House of Commons. Variations of those rules were used and then later adapted for use in the American colonies. However, no official rules of order became standardized. At the time it was common for meetings to become disorderly.

However, that changed with Henry Martyn Robert (1837 – 1923). Robert was a US Army officer who graduated with an engineering degree from West Point Military Academy. Because of his roles in society, he presided over many public meetings. Apparently he became frustrated with the chaos of public meetings and wrote Robert’s Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies, published in 1876. His book of meeting procedures was successfully received and updated throughout his life and beyond. Robert’s Rules of Order has become the basis of much parliamentary procedure.

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