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what you did together in this team
and explain why you became a member of this team or explain what the purpose of
the team was
Describe a disagreement that you had with a friend.
You should say:
who you disagreed with
what the disagreement was
how it happened
and explain how this disagreement was resolved
SAMPLE ANSWER:
Today, I am going to share with you my experience I had as a member of a team/of
the time when I disagreed with my friend.
As a student, I have to engage in a variety of teamwork projects. As a result, having
disagreements with other team members is inevitable.
For topic "Describe an experience you had as a member of a team":
We were supposed to gather a team of 3 to 4 people to work on a simulation
project in our management class. The simulation worked like this: each group in
our class would run a shoe production company on the internet. We had to make
decisions as the simulation market changed and each group’s performance would
be compared weekly. At the end of the semester, we would have to prepare a
presentation on our simulation project.
We decided to meet each other once a week to work on the project; sometimes we
would discuss urgent matters over e-mails. Despite the fact that we were at daggers
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drawn many times, we successfully led our company to the 2 place overall in our
class, so that was not a bad effort.
For topic "Describe a disagreement that you had with a friend":
If you have ever had a chance of working in a team to make a decision, you would
know how difficult it was to make sure everyone was pulling together. Running a
simulative company was not as easy as we thought. A wrong decision on pricing
would significantly affect our profit. 3 of us fought for days on pricing decisions.
My friends wanted our products to be sold at a premium while I preferred a
medium price, targeting the mid-end market. After carefully reviewing the