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Given the story, how would you uniquely allocate each person to make sure both tasks are accomplished efficiently?

narrative

As dawn broke on a cool fall day, I found myself observing my team of dedicated workers, poised to start another day at our thriving bakery. We specialized in bread, a testament to the beauty of simplicity. My job was to delegate tasks to this diverse group, and my attention was drawn to three key members: Emma, Mark, and Andrew. The responsibilities at hand were straightforward yet demanded meticulous attention: baking and packaging.

I circled around Andrew, who was laughing at a joke Mark had just told him. The two seemed to be joined at the hip, always spending their breaks together. Their camaraderie was strong, stronger than the bonds formed in most workplaces. It reminded me of when the two of them had run a charity food stall together last year. They had been successful, despite the odds. It was safe to say they worked well together.

However, despite their camaraderie, Andrew didn't have the same relationship with everybody on the team. He found Emma particularly vexing. She nagged him relentlessly about everything, making him feel stressed and distracted. Being someone who had previously worked in the cutthroat world of pastry making at a bakery and the tedium of the packaging department of a toy company, I couldn’t help but feel for the guy. In both places, he had left a mark of efficiency. His coworkers still sung praises of his neat, quick packaging skills; however, here, Emma had a different story to tell.

She would often complain about Andrew's packaging methods, calling them sloppy, which was rich coming from her when she was known to have issues with Mark forgetting to attach labels on packaging. It was a small oversight, but it was enough to cause a crisis in the packaging department, and worst of all, it caused friction. Mark felt insulted and demoralised by Emma's sharp comments, which made my role as a manager an uphill task.

However, little could be overlooked about Emma's bread-baking skills. She'd been baking bread for her family meals for years. From every bite could be tasted the love and care she put into it, skills she learned from her grandmother, who was a professional baker. Moreover, her experience in her family business, packaging homemade jams, only added to her list of skills. She would pack and catalogue the jars efficiently, treating it not as a chore, but as a hobby.

Mark, for all his shortcomings, had one quality that stood out. His personal belongings were always in order, perfectly neat and organised. A far cry from that fateful day he had decided to participate in a neighbourhood bake sale. The cakes were a disaster, one of which had salt substituted for sugar. Despite that, he had valuable experience of arranging and packing family groceries every week which couldn't be ignored.

So now the question was how to utilize their strengths and mitigate the shortcomings. Bakers, packaging, bread and teamwork; I wracked my brain for the perfect assignment for each person. "Alright team," I began, confident in the choices I was about to make. "Here's how we're going to do this…."

choices

  • Baking: Andrew, Packaging: Emma and Mark
  • Baking: Mark, Packaging: Andrew and Emma
  • Baking: Emma, Packaging: Andrew and Mark

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task_id
031580ed-5536-5e6f-b5ae-284bf31f3a72
task_key
default--team~5fallocation--031580ed-5536-5e6f-b5ae-284bf31f3a72
task_revision_id
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config / split
default / team_allocation

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