Team 10
Cody Chaplain
Mike Britton
Duane Ricks
Chris Herpel
Introduction
• Paxton Company is a marine distributor
• They service commercial and recreational
boating industries, specializing in products
for boat builders, boat repair yards, and
boat dealers
• The organization is divided into different
departments
Problem
• Paxton Company is becoming
unproductive because territorial managers
are not working together
• The lack of communication between
departments is hurting the company.
Alternatives Available
• Better manage meetings
• Reduce suboptimization within the
company
• Managers should be forced to go on a
retreat where they will develop team
building skills and learn more about their
coworkers
Recommendation
RETREAT!!!!
Action Plan
• Develop a detailed written itinerary including:
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Meal times and locations
Meeting times and topics
Hotel accommodations
Designated “free time”
• Make reservations for seminar: “Middle Management
Communication and Meetings”
• Charter bus
• Reserve hotel rooms at Marriott
• Travel to Richmond, VA
• Eat together and get to know fellow coworkers
• Attend meeting
• Discuss problems within organization
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of each manager
Itinerary
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
11:00 AM – Leave Paxton for Richmond (Please arrive by 10:45)
12:00 PM – Stop for Lunch at Cracker Barrel
2:00 PM – Check into Marriott
3:00 – 5:00 PM – Socialize with other department managers
6:00 – 9:00 PM – Dinner at the Melting Pot
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
9:00 AM – Check out and meet on bus
11:30 AM – Arrive in Norfolk.
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
6:00 – 8:00 AM – Breakfast in the lobby of the Marriott
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM – Attend Middle Management Communications and Meetings
3:00 – 6:00 PM – Meeting in the ballroom of Marriott
6:00 – 9:00 PM – Dinner at Copper Grill Steaks & Lobster
Anticipated Outcome
• Communication and territorial barriers will
have been removed
• “Trickle down”
• Increased morale
• Higher productivity
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
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The managers will have created unity throughout the company
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Lower level employees can learn from middle managements attitudes and communication habits
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Problems are not immediately taken to upper management
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Solve each others problems
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Team building skills
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Increased productivity
Weaknesses
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Managers may be socializing on the job too much
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Managers may have fatigue after such a long weekend
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Instead of bringing managers closer together, the retreat could have the opposite effect, causing communication to
be worse that before
Opportunities
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Reaching maximum productivity
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Increasing sales
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Increase time management awareness
Threats
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If the company does not continue to change and become more productive then competitors like Norfolk Marine
may take some of Paxton’s business
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If the company doesn’t solve its communication problems this could cause a lot of the high importance employee’s
to quit or resign and cause the company to ultimately fail or go out of business
QUESTIONS???