Communication Results
For the past eight weeks I have worked closely with a group of five other people with the sole intent of being able to experience what it was like working in a group and being able to analyze the work being done and how it was accomplished. For the most part I would like to say that it was a positive experience, but at the same time it was a very difficult thing to accomplish. I would like to start by discussing the different personality types within the group. The group was made up of six people and out of the six, five were SJs (Kelly, Kristin, Nakun, Nat, and Rafae) and only one was a NF (Corinne). The SJs very much followed the "Guardian" example by assigning tasks and having them completed and done on time. While in the meantime, the NF/ "Idealist" was great for coming up with ideas, but very poor on implementing and completing the things that needed to be done. This made things very frustrating and hard to deal with especially when it was time to complete our project and everything needed to be in. Corinne was still coming up with ideas for our project in the seventh week of it. We finally had to tell her that the ideas were great but there was no time to expand the project further and we n
The way we set up the schedule was like a building block. We couldn't move onto the next level unless the first was complete. This helped us because it made us not fall into the trap of "Group Think." After one part was completed, we would discuss it and if we agreed on it we would move on and if we didn't we would revise it, so that everyone's opinion would be taken into consideration. Our group was very open-minded and took suggestions well. The whole decision making process was easy for us too, probably because most of us were SJs and we knew we had a deadline to make. I liked playing "Devil's Advocate" to some of the ideas. It was probably easier for me to play it because I was the most familiar with the university and the things the university has tried to do before. (Many of my family members have worked at DePaul a majority of my life and one could use the phrase I have grown up at DePaul.) This also helped when it came to researching the information needed to develop the proposal. eeded to work on just what we had because of the time limit. Many of the tasks assigned to Corinne were not completed until we forced her to complete them. A lot of her responsibilities were taken over by other group members because of her lack of completion. This was very frustrating to the group because it was putting us behind schedule. She kept telling us that the marketing things were "in her head," but she would never show us anything written or completed. Finally, we figured out that anything she said we should write down and do it ourselves. I found it simply amazing that we each lived up to our personality types and how the group benefited from taking what we knew and developed our strategy from there. After brainstorming and deciding what the project at hand would be, we divided each part up and assigned everyone a part. Kelly and myself were in charge of real estate, Nakun developed the finance plan, Rafae wrote the business plan, Nat did the technical things and kept everyone in check, and Corinne was in charge of researching the franchise and marketing. Everyone met their deadlines
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