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Decision Making

The decision making activity was a pretty interesting one; every member of the class, which is really big, had to agree on the final decision taken as a group for adjustment of the first exam grade and terms for the second exam. As expected, the class turned into chaos, but somehow we managed to gather the most appealing ideas. In the beginning of the exercise I used Collaborating as the way to handle conflict because I needed to get the best out of the opportunity given since I did not do that good in the exam, and so I gave my opinion to a sub-group of what I thought would benefit us all the most. But then as a result of all the chaos, I turned into Accommodation and pretty much was willing to go with whatever the rest of the group decided. In the end I was very happy that we were able to take advantage of the generous opportunity given by the professor and to get to a decision that everyone approved of.

If we were to do this again, I still think Collaborating, just more organized, as the way to handle conflict would get us to a desirable result since the bargain and negotiation among the group can lead to an optimal decision.

Almost Egg-cellent

Although we did not follow all the steps in the planning process we were the team that got closest to the ultimate goal.

We had a clear idea of what the goal and objective was; we knew what resources we had to build the nest; we did not have an alternative strategy, however as we started working on the project our original plan was somewhat modified; we did not allocate specific roles throughout the team but instead we went with the flow.

I think we failed in communicating our ideas effectively, and therefore, although our final product was ok for the time limit imposed, we could have been able to achieve a better result.