Based on my pervious experiences with working with different groups to achieve common goal, the high performing teams are harder to leave because high performing teams share common vision, goals and stand strong together towards challenges to achieve the desire goal. Its also hard to loose people that you established clear   get attached to and share common vision. When there is a clear norm, Team relationships will be better and they respect and trust each other and the team stays focused on the vision. Team members become more flexible and interdependent on each other and communication improves. I mentioned in the discussion post about the great teamwork I experienced when I was the maid of honor of my friend.  Planning her bridal shower with the bridesmaids is a great example of teamwork. We all worked towards one goal and to make the bride happy and making sure everything goes smooth. As a maid of honor, I wanted to make sure establishing a good relationship with the bridesmaids to make it easy to communicate and work together. Dr. Randi Wolfe, in media segment talks about the importance of having “mutual trust and respect.” Trust enables the team to engage in open debate and decision making that leads to a commitment of action on the part of individual members of the tea
 Reading the article, " The five stages of team development: A case study" the author explains Adjourning provides the team the opportunity to say good-bye to each other and wish each other luck as they pursue their next endeavor. It is likely that any group that reached Stage 4: Performing will keep in touch with each other as they have become a very close knit group and there will be sadness at separating and moving on to other projects independently" (Abudi,G. (2010)

Time is getting close for me and my colleagues to graduate with our Master's degree, I feel when that time arrives, I will feel a sense of sadness because I have gotten use to working with my colleagues as a team and I looked to them as a sense of support by them responding to me and others by using our group discussions (posting on the blackboard). After graduating, this will basically be the time to adjourn and I know this will also be a time of sadness because me and my colleagues will go our different ways and on our own journeys.

Comments

  1. ChristineDecember 9, 2018 at 3:26 PM

    Hi Naire
    I already commented on you discussion post about the awesome team work you had while being a bridesmaid. So I will comment on your last paragraph about finishing up our masters degree. I was very hesitant about starting this journey a year ago. I kept telling myself, I'm way too old to be going back to college. I'm sure all of these people will be much younger then me. I was delightfully surprised to see that we are all over the age range. I feel that due to our age range, we are able to contribute much more to each other. The experience that we have is easily shareable and we are able to see how things have changed in the field over the years!

    Christine

    ReplyDelete
  2. ChristineDecember 22, 2018 at 9:07 AM

    Hi Naire

    It was really nice learning with you throughout this course and throughout our masters program. I'm not sure what your specialization is, but I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your studies if we do not come across each other again!
    Christine

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sharing Web Resources I chose Association for Children Education International organization. ACEI is international organization and its belief that education is important for development. The focus of ACEI to educate all children , but their main focus is on meeting the education needs to the children that in need the most. Their work started in 1892 to promote kindergarten education in the United States and internationally. In 1930 their work expanded to promote education to primary school years. In their Global/ACEI news section “ Our Children Marching For Their Lives in the United States” caught my attention. Children in United States and around the world are marching to protest against gun violence in schools. The violence in today’s world has become ordinary and common. This violence causes number of deaths, injuries, pain and fear throughout the world. I have leaned from this article that children march for tow reasons, they march to express their emotion and also to show to th...
Read more
Testing For Intelligence  I do not think that Standardized Testing correctly measures a student’s intelligence or academic level. Every one is different, and some test well, while others may not test as well. While they may differentiate as to a grade and tell whether or not you move on to the next grade, everyone learns at their own pace and processes things differently. I believe that it puts too much pressure and stress on students to do good on those tests like the SAT, ACT tests, etc. I don’t feel like you can gain anything from taking those tests because most of the questions that are on the test are the ones that you’ve never seen before or you’ve never even learned about in school. It shouldn’t have to play a role on smart the student is or determined their abilities. If I was the leader of the state’s Department of Education, I would advocate fewer standardized tests so that it doesn’t put a lot of pressure on the students to do well on them. In china China, all s...
Read more