Childrens Museum of Tacoma Jacob Meyer Carlos Mariona

Children's Museum of Tacoma Jacob Meyer Carlos Mariona Peng Lin John Southworth Savannah Coalson

Non-Profit Background Information MISSION: At the Children’s Museum of Tacoma, we honor children and champion play. IMAGE OF THE CHILD: Everything we do begins with our image of the child. We believe children are compassionate, capable, inquisitive, creative, valuable, contributing and dreamers. VISION: Our vision is the be a leader in our community in using play to learn, to grow and to thrive. Communities embrace the power of play and value the contributions of children.

How We Got in Contact Professor provided email. Met the following Wednesday with Marketing Manager. Followed up with Children's Museum almost every Wednesday.

Pay As You Will Program Used to charge an annual fee Decline in participation led to “Pay As You Will” Children's Museum is Free. Donate if you can. Attendance increased.

How We Worked as a Team Analyzed situation and stepped up accordingly. Stepped up to the tasks we specialized in. Highlighted our strengths. Eliminated our weaknesses. Creating Synergy Communication is key

Analyzing Org. Problems and Needs The problem; reduced income per user The Need; influx of cash per user

How We Worked as a Teams have processes too: Research Communication between Teams

Brainstorming Focused on community outreach local businesses. involving Concentrated on businesses most relating to Children’s museum such as restaurants, art supply stores and retail stores. Came up with four main ideas.

How We Worked as a Team “To build leaders, you must determine the knowledge they need, decide how to acquire it, and then manage its distribution” Before we could begin our contribution, we had to fully understand the materials we needed to fully succeed.

Presenting Information Once we decided what would work best we created example and applied the groundwork Broke the various community outreach solutions up between team members where we each developed an examples for our solution in which we would pitch and show them

How We Worked as a Team Brainstormed as a group to come up with the best possible solution Based upon individuals strengths and weaknesses we divided the work among group members

Conclusion Team Value Creation and what we brought to the Children’s Museum of Tacoma Creating Synergy Establishing a Process Developing and Managing Knowledge