Executive Summary Taran Swan Teams have a vast capacity to drive an organization beyond its boundaries. When managed well‚ teams stimulate creativity and innovation‚ make an organization more adaptive to market forces‚ and tap into a firm’s intellectual resources to drive breakthrough results. Building and Leading High Performance Teams enables you to manage team dynamics in a manner that establishes a productive work environment‚ delivers high performance‚ and fosters creative ideas. Introduction
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Taran Swan’s story as general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America is a true pattern of successful leadership in building organizations. She manages to foster a great team of people who would feel equal and work together to achieve a common goal that she manages to set without exercising authority. Furthermore she manages to make everyone feel equal in their ideas by allowing discussions rather than exercising power. Her management is extremely effective when the company was being created but at
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Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A) Case Study Background and Scope In 1979‚ Nickelodeon‚ “a cable channel for kids 2-11 years old‚ was launched in the United States”. Nickelodeon provided a wide-range of programming which including “live-action‚ comedy‚ drama‚ animation‚ music and sports and game shows”. By 1995‚ Nickelodeon was the highest rated basic cable network and international expansion was very realistic and just getting started. To successfully transition internationally
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Taran Swan had successfully launched Nickelodeon in Latin America. Would Swan be able to continue leading the team from New York? Or would it be better to appoint an interim director‚ and if so‚ whom? 1) Appoint a current member of the team as interim director • Swan knows her team member’s work ethics. They all know about each others projects. • Who should she choose? 2) Appoint third party individual as interim director • Third party with unattached opinion and new view. • Hard to find a
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Case 5: ‘Taran Swan’ 1. Describe the culture at Nickelodeon Latin America. Be specific. - Firstly‚ the whole culture at Nickelodeon is all about kids. Give children a voice and unify children. The children are the face of the channel. This was noticeable in the company’s atmosphere. People dressed casually and felt comfortable bringing their kids into work and the passed out candy at some meetings. Swan wanted to create brand awareness internally (People should have “orange” blood
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Introduction The Taran Swan case study is principally concerned with looking at how to maintain effective communication and leadership when an unexpected circumstance impacts the management structure of an organization. Problem Statement Since the channel’s inception‚ Nickelodeon Latin America has been managed by Taran Swan‚ first as launch director and then as general manager. She has had a significant impact on all important decisions in the life of the enterprise. Unfortunately due
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Case study Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America 1. Describe the culture at Nickelodeon Latin America. Be specific How did Swan go about building that culture? Swan formed an entrepreneurial culture that strives for competition‚ encourages to take risk and values for new ideas. The strong Nickelodeon identity (“orange blood”) and Swan’s business plan assisted building a clear vision and defining a key business strategy. In order to build the strong brand and culture Swan had to find
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Case Summary of Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America Taran Swan served as launch director and general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. She had written the business plan‚ compiled a team and brought it through its first 18 months in the air. She unexpectedly had to return to New York and was faced with the decision of whether to appoint an interim leader in her place‚ and if so‚ who among her team members should she select? Origins of Nickelodeon Latin America Nickelodeon is a cable
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Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America Background Nickelodeon is a cable channel for kids 2-11 years old. It started out in the US in 1979. Nickelodeon produced cartoons‚ live action‚ comedy‚ drama‚ music‚ sports and game shows. In 1996 it was the most popular kid’s TV channel in the US. The international channels had their own names‚ but relied on US programs that were voiced over. The channels were launched by a team from corporate the company called the Nickelodeon International Swat Team
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The journey of Christianity in Latin America from its inception to modern times has been an interesting phenomenon to observe. Todd Hartch’s book‚ The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity‚ outlines this rebirth and attempts to explain the causal mechanisms behind the event. He writes‚ “the history of Christianity in Latin America since 1950 defied expectations not so much because there was a rebirth of Christianity‚ but because of how that rebirth occurred” (Hartch 2014). This paper will be
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