BEP 305 - Setting the Context and Recounting the Situation

Review key language for the first two steps of your success story and go over key word partnerships by filling in the blanks with words from the box.
   adapt      chain      challenge      end      key      morale      pressure      role      set up      through      undergoing   
1. Setting the context
· Our company had been restructuring, so employees needed to to new ways of doing things.
· Towards the of 2007, we got a big new customer and started receiving huge orders.
· All 2006, a series of budget cuts really put our department under financial .

2. Recounting the situation and your role in it.
· Upper management decided that corporate culture was a to surviving the changes, so a committee was to create a training plan. I was put in charge of getting employee feedback on company values.
· Our existing supply couldn’t really handle the size of the orders, so the key was to strengthen our logistics system, and fast.
· Employee really went downhill, so my was to devise innovative ways to increase team spirit.