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The Miracle Squad will be a small focus group of ten personnel which will create strategies for improving team-building skills, ethical sales and marketing techniques, interpersonal relationships, and overall job satisfaction.

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Arrange new sales tactics for sales teams to focus on indepentdently (B-SMS 3).

Improve technology and media skills (B-LS 5).

Demonstrate new high quality products with a brief presentation (B-LS 6).

Develop organizational and time management skills (B-LS 3.)

Develop empathy and recovery training for troubled employees (B-SS 4).

Develop cirriculum activities that bring joy and enrichment (B-LS 10). Implement ways to improve performance and possible raises (B-LS 4).

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Announcements for creating this focus group will be sent on a company wide email and supervisors will also recieve a hard copy in faculty mail boxes. All employees will recieve a brief description of the focus group in their respective emails, and will be notified of a company meeting that will desribe full details of the group in a company meeting.

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Each candidate selected for the group must sign and date an informed consent form, and return to management personnel before admittance into the group is finalized. Once management has recieved and signed the form, the candidate will be informed their admittance into the group is final.

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The screening process of this group will begin with mangement, supervisors, and employees with qualities of leadership. The screening process will determine the final ten candidates for the group. During the interview process, employees will be informed of meeting times, and will be required to  maintain confidentiality of sales and marketing techniques. Each individual will be required to express leadership skills as well as understanding leader responsibilities, ground rules, company polices, and meeting goal deadlines.
(Missouri Professional School Counselors and Counselor Educators, 2015)

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Stage one:
In stage one, the group will introduce themselves to the group. During this time, confidentiality will be expressed thoroughly. Some decisions will about training techniques will be passed to supervisors of company teams. The disclosure of what information to be shared will be noted, as the rest will remain within the group. Members will be reminded of the consent forms they have signed.
Stage two:
In stage two, the group will review progress from the objectives of the previos week. This will inform the group about which strategies are working, and those that are not. Then the team will design improved strategies for the following week.
Stage three:
In stage three, the group will discuss their involvement in the group and how improvements can be made for the following week. If members arestruggling to meet company goals, this stage is when all group members can collaborate and propose suggestions. The group will then be reminded of confidentiality and company policies regarding new suggestions.

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Each individual or teams (sales, marketing) will be allowed to speak in a timely manner to demonstrate new team-building strategies to increase performance within the company. All members must speak and behave in a professional manner, and enter the group with an open mind. All members will have the opportunity to express their opinion in different topics. All members are required to participate.

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Section A.7.a. ADVOCACY of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014) states "When appropriate, counselors advocate at individual, group, institutional, and societal levels to address potential barriers and obstacles that inhibit access and/or growth and development of clients" (p.5).
Members of the focus group are going to face challenges that inhibit company performance.

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the ACA Code of Ethics Preamble (2014) states in regarding fidelity as"honoring commitments and keeping promises, including fulfilling one's resposibilities of trust in professional relationships" (p. 3).
Making deadlines and commitments is a highly demanded from candidates in this group.

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The factors that will be utilized in this group will be altruism, socializing techniques, interpersonal learning,  direct advice, and existential factors. It is important that the group learns effective interpersonal learning skills with professional behavior. Suggesting new strategies and recieving feedback is the reason behind the group. If members are recieving negative emotions and behavior from employees, a strategy for correcting this in a ethical way will be developed and practiced. This group is designed to build team skills, not personal advancement.

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The style of leadership this group will practice is a participative leadership. This is designed to be a focus group, the team above all other teams. Participants will all have a chance to express their leadership views equally. The company owner or CEO will have the final say on which strategies are implemented.