While studying abroad in Czechia, I took two 5-week business courses. One can be seen at this link and was the McCombs portion of the summer. The other was this, Organizational Behavior, and was taught by a series of prominent Czech professors at the University of Economics in Prague. This was a challenge, as there were language barriers and the teaching style of Czech professors varies vastly from the average US professor. The cultural causes of this can be examined in the link above, but here I want to show a little about myself as well as how much I learned about teamwork. The human pyramid and similar exercises taught as much as the spontaneous group presentations, and guest speakers provided fascinating insights. However, my favorite parts were certainly this exploration of my quantitative OCEAN personality profile, as well as using something as cute as The Penguins of Madagascar to explore each possible Belbin team member you will encounter and how to activate their synergistic potential (as well as hone my presentation skills while under duress).
