Decision Making

I personally used accommodation to handle the potential for chaos during the class decision making exercise because I thought that students that did really bad on the test should have a voice of how the next test is going to be like. Since I scored above the average of the class I figured that this issue was more important to others than self. Given that I know now the pattern of communications, the reactions of classmates, and the results of the decision making process, another way to handle conflict that I could have chosen to get a more desirable result would be collaborating since it requires bargaining and negotiating among groups and multiple group insight is required. I think that we should of split into groups and come up with the best idea from each group and then decide on which group's idea to stick with. This would have been better because there would be less chaos in the classroom and everybody could focus on a great idea that is beneficial to everyone.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

We succeed at building an effective egg protector because of our careful and thorough planning. We began with step number one from the planning process which is to define your goals and objectives. We knew where we wanted to go and understood the time limits. Our goal was not to break the egg and protect it using straws and tape. The second step in the planning process is to determine your resources and current status vis-a-vis objectives.

We knew where we stand in reaching the objectives from the start; we identified resources, group strengths that work in our favor and group weaknesses that can hold us back. We decided that the shortest person is going to go up to throw the egg because of less distance from the ground. We generated alternative scenarios for what may happen; we identified for each scenario things that may help or hinder progress toward our objectives. We evaluate alternatives to assess strengths and weaknesses of each. Then we choose the action alternative most likely to accomplish our objective; we described what specifically must be done to implement this course of action; and we allocated jobs/roles throughout the team. Last but not least, the last step was to implement the plan and evaluate results. We took the planned action; measured progress toward objectives as implementation proceeds; we took corrective actions and revise our plan as needed. I evaluate my team’s ultimate performance given the effectiveness of my planning to be great due to the success of it.