Honeycomb Inc Presentation

HONEYCOMB INC. A presentation by: Morghan Sanders, Hannah Blair, Natalie Monte, Kaylyyn Olmstead, Randy Gerson, John Gilman

WHAT IS HONEYCOMB INC. ?

• Honeycomb Inc. shows us the view of office life through bees and how they work together. It showcases 4 main characters having everyday troubles in the business world as Managers and Employees. The show is explaining the Do’s and Don’ts of working well in a business environment. We have incorporated our majors into the show by creating a problem within the workspace that the Bees need to fix. The shareholders of the companies have told Queen Bee that the company has had issues within the bee hive and that there needs to be a change in how the company works. They’ve decided to become more creative in their workspace and how they handle situations. So throughout the episodes queen bee is bringing in specialists to tells the bees how they treat every situation.

QUEEN BEEYONCE -In control, sassy, confident, -good leadership skills, efficient and effective, a good listener, -down to earth, professional, wise, understanding, -embodiment of perfect manager

BILL -manages a larger percentage of the company -delegates tasks to lower managers and employees -extremely methodical and logical -mostly devoid of emotions and is therefore a consistent worker

RON - head of managing the employees - middle man between management and employees - "voice of the people" - emotional, hyperactive, sensitive

MILTON -needs direction, unaware, - unsure, unconfident, soft spoken, skittish, -"no backbone," confused, disorganized, -unsystematic

Episode 1 Managers and Management

EPISODE 1 BREAKDOWN: • So the company has just invoked a creative process to handle situations and Queen bee has to tell all the other managers about this change, she is also explaining about being a good manager and how to become promoted. Queen Bee explains how important it is to be creative how they do things. She also explains that there is going to be an Artist guest speaker weekly to talk to them about how they work more creatively and handle situations a little more differently.

Episode 2 The Management Environment and its History

EPISODE 2 BREAKDOWN: • The managers discuss the negative effects of outside forces and how they are bringing production of honey down. They decide do delegate the work to be done to a subordinate in order to have a ready scapegoat should the employee not be able to come through. The leader of the hive then steps in as the voice of reason and along with an outside consultant (Ringling Student) explains to them why their behavior is immoral.

Episode 3 Decision Making and Planning

EPISODE 3 BREAKDOWN:

• We find out in this episode the employees have gone on strike and upper management questions the line manager about the problem.

The managers argue for a time and fail to come to a compromise so the queen bee decides to bring in a Ringling student to resolve the disagreement.

Episode 4 Managing Change and Innovation

EPISODE 4 BREAKDOWN: • The low and mid level managers are arguing about power in the office and whether the low level manager has the authority to grant an employee a special allowance without consulting his superiors. The queen bee intervenes in this situation on behalf of the lower manager since the decision was made in an attempt to help the company.

Episode 5 Organizational Structure, Culture and Human Resources

EPISODE 5 BREAKDOWN: • An employee who was previously let go is brought back on board and given a task in a completely new environment which is very daunting to him. Then the voice of reason once again steps in to explain how change is beneficial and necessary in the work environment.

Episode 6 Individual Behavior

EPISODE 6 BREAKDOWN: • The workers have been spending too much time badmouthing each other and the company on social media sites which has cut into their work flow and as a result the queen bee brings in an outside consultant who is an expert in workflow to bring the employees back on track.

SNEAK PEAK OF OUR SERIES!

HOW WE DID IT! •

If we were to apply the lessons of management to our own team and production, our team worked as an organic organization.

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We effectively each provided our skills, time, and efforts towards the production of our show.

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We met and collaborated on the designs of our concept, plot and characters. We divided the work amongst ourselves from the start by first dividing the scripts by episode.

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After, we wrote our scripts we met again and each analyzed and provided feedback and together improved our writing.

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We also decided on dividing some of the work based on specialization:

• Hannah majors in film and therefore is our cinematographer and editor for our episodes • Natalie and Kaylynn designed and drew the characters and storyboards • Randy provided backgrounds and concept art • Morghan and John mainly focused on the organization of all the elements and reports for the milestones of our group.

ANY QUESTIONS???