During our recent team presentations, we covered negotiation, team building, teamwork, conflict management, effective meetings, facilitating team success, managing decisions and solving problems creatively (De Janasz, Wood, Gottschalk, Dowd, Schneider 2006, pages 196-314). Our team was assigned Teamwork for Success as a presentation topic. I believe we not only clarified the topic, but were able to use the content to our advantage and produce a successful presentation. This essay highlights our ability to work cooperatively in a team, initiate a successful presentation, and reveal what we can do next time to improve our working techniques. “Negotiation is the process in which two individuals or groups reach a joint agreement on different needs or ideas” (Saaty, Thomas L.1990). From the beginning of our group work, the six of us have negotiated an effective meeting time . Some were more lenient than others, but after a short discussion we came to an agreement “Groups must be able to coordinate flexibly and there must be commitment to group goals that direct and motivate members” (Oliver, Jim R, 1996).We all wanted to help and collaborate as much as possible to have the best chance of achieving our outcome. Our decision making process was to evaluate: “which goals are more important than others? is it likely to happen? What should we plan for and how to achieve it? These and other questions require a multi-criteria logic” (Saaty, Thomas L. 1990). technology (slides), speeches (information) and creativity (games and short films). “Identify the overall goal. What are you trying to accomplish? What is the main... focus of the article... the role of conversation in producing intentional change in organizations? Academy of Management Review, 20 (3), pp 542-570 McClatchy, Jamie Herzlich. January 14, 2008, "Tribune Business News." Washington Oliver, Jim R, July 31. 1996, “A Machine Learning Approach to Automated Trading and Prospects for Election Trading.” http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/-oliver27/papers/jmis.ps.Saaty, Thomas L. 1990 “Multicriteria Decision Making: The Analytical Hierarchical Process: Planning, Prioritization for Resource Allocation.” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesSeverin, Werner J., Tankard, James W., Jr, 1999. "Theories of Communication." Origins, methods, uses. New York: Hastings House, pages 29-37Shaw and Barret-power. November 8, 2004 "The Effects of Diversity on Small Workgroup Processes and Performance." Human Relations Newspaper. Springer Netherlands. Volume 51, pages 1307-1325