We are Group Premium.
Premium refers to an impression of exclusiveness, at very high quality as the contrary to the generic group. As well, premium is about a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement, as to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.  Our group choose this name because we believe that after taking this course, we would gain more knowledge on collaboration with a premium level of collaboration thinking .  It is the bonus we can get as well as the achievement of award we can obtain.

Our group consists of 4 members:

My name is Cynthia. I am a part-time MCOCM student. I am currently working in the administration section in my company. My daily work involves interacting with different groups of people. I am anticipating to gain valuable collaboration skill through the course so as to drive an easy and effective path in my work when cooperating with the groups.

My name is Helen.  MSOCM is my first master degree in which management knowledge are my favourable research areas.  Through self-development in CityU, I hope I can contribute my learning of collaboration towards the team in my company as well as working well with my senior officers.  The most important thing is to negotiate with my boss on salary increase every year.



My name is Julia. My study program is MSOCM. My current job duties are managing an Insurance Department. Manage and supervise day-to-day casework e.g. Perform claims experience studies/analyses and conduct annual review of pricing bases as well as the Policy issuing. I always hold regular meeting with Sales team to discuss the business opportunities development and negotiate the terms and conditions to the Agent and Brokers of the potential deals. I hope this class can help me to understand the conflicts among diverse individuals and how to resolve the conflicts in my daily work.

My name is Tony, I am a MSOCM part-time evening student.  I currently work as a Fireman at Fire Services Department.  My duties are working with teammates closely to save life and protect property from fire and other calamities.  The team spirits and team collaboration are very essential during daily operations such as emergency fire incident.  I hope this course would enhance my collaboration skills to have more effective and efficient outcome.

This blog brings our community together in an open forum to discuss with other people in different industries. Our group goals for this class are to improve our results from negotiations; extends collaboration by building partnerships; and Effectively Dealing With Complex, High Value and Cross Cultural Negotiations.

The weekly topic excites us the most is the 'Negotiating among Diverse Individuals' since negotiation skill is very important in our daily life. For instance, we have to negotiate with HR department for the salary increase, liaise with the boss about the work load rearrangement and more practically, to bargain with the hawker in lady's market in order to get the goods at our desired price.

The additional topics we would like to learn are (1) Being a middle manager, how to work well between subordinates and the boss; (2) Should I always follows boss instructions as when they are wrong (should I always bear in mind that 'the boss is always right'; (3) How to change the old fashion office culture.; (4) How to utilize the negotiation skill when we want to win the deal but intermediate request to get more commission and lower the price as well.

One myth we have in mind regarding 'COLLABORATION' is:

"Hong Kong Government to take initiative to address the long term healthcare problem, and propose the Doctor's group and Insurance Companies jointly to provide the medical service to the citizen within mutual agreed fees."

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