Decisions,Decisions,Decisions!

When the class got together to come up with an alternative solutions to boost up our first exam grades, there was immediate responses once the floor was ours. As the compromise was coming into play, i quickly played the role of avoidance. I felt like there was too many people in the class to even have my voice heard and i was too afraid to take the reigns. Although in smaller group situations i usually tend to have more to say. I figured that a lot of people would come up with ideas that i would agree with anyway. I was also afraid to say something that no one would agree with and be shut down or rejected by all of my classmates. While i was in the corner avoiding the chaos, i noticed that there were a few people who decided to get the whole classrooms decisions organized taking the collaborating and compromise roles. For example, 2 individuals went up to the front of the classroom using the compromise role in order to be the mediator for all of the students. They wrote all of the options on the board and narrowed it down after we all voted. There were several individuals who took the collaborating role and helped come up with a number of solutions for everyone to choose so that we all could be accomadated. I think that i could have taken on the collaborating role in order to help the class come up with more solutions to the decision. The other role which i think is crucial in this process is the compromise role. WIth those two roles in use, the best possible solution will result because you will hear everyone's thoughts and ideas but also mediate in order to come up with something that can accomadate everyone and also avoid conflict issues.

Constructing the perfect egg

This was similar to our concept.

When my team and I started our planning process on constructing the protection of the egg, we were very frantic at the short amount of time and the limited amount of supplies that would be given to us. Of the five steps that are used in the planning process my group and I only followed three out of the five steps. The steps we followed were defining our goals and objectives, analyzing alternatives and making a tactical plan and implementing the plan and evaluate the results. We bypassed the steps of determining the current status compared to objectives and developing premises and several alternative strategies. We bypassed those two steps because we felt like we had to make a decision no matter if it worked or not so we would just go with what we think would work best. Therefore we were going to make the plan we had thought of before construction and make it work somehow. I think my group performed well under the circumstances we all worked together to try and get our initial plan to work. The only thing that was working against us was time. As a group we could have been more effective by further analyzing how we can make the construction of our contraption much more sturdy. Our analogy on how to construct the straws was on the right track. However, the execution was where we were in trouble. Before i was able to drop the egg i realized that the lopsided construction we came up with was against us. As soon as i dropped it, the egg landed on the side with more weight and had the most destruction done out of everyone else's. Overall, if we followed every step of planning it would have been helpful in determining the right steps to executing the idea we had in mind.