PROFESSIONAL THANKS

I have truly enjoyed this class and all of my colleagues.  It was very interesting meeting and hearing about all the different stories and ideas that have been given in this class. I wish all of my colleagues well in their journeys and hope to continue to hear abou their lives and their accomplishments.

Good bye and good luck in all you do.  Please feel free to continue to contact me and let me know how life is treating you.  God bless.

Blog Assignment

I have been involved in several groups, mostly in being a part of online groups while pursuing my degree. Some of the groups were involved in getting projects together such as power point presentations and others like this one, spending most of my time commenting on their posts. I have a few colleagues that have been in several of my classes here at Walden and it has indeed been a great opportunity learning about so many things that are different from what I am used to. I hope to be able to continue my communication with some of the colleagues long after we have received our degree. I believe I find that those groups where we performed the best and achieved exactly what we were trying to achieve were the hardest to leave, especially if we worked together for more than a month. I believe most groups don’t take the time to adjourn. I believe we go through all the other stages of forming, storming, norming and performing but often do not adjourn the group. I believe we do the last assignment and simply dissolve. There have been groups that I have been a part of where everyone wants to be the leader and everyone is working hard to make the best grades. It was a pleasure working on a project with them because we all had a set purpose and that was to do well. Even though I was part of a group at church where it ended up being three people that finished the project, it build closer relationships and also allowed us to continue working together years after that. I do wish we had taken the time to adjourn the groups but I believe because we never had true relationships at the beginning, it was easy to just dissolve.

BLOG ASSIGNMENT

There were problems on my job with the administrative team and the laboratory team. Things were getting missed or eliminated and it was causing problems with our jobs. We could not consistently perform our jobs to the best of our abilities because of lack of communication. One coworker began going t o the boss about the situation without first speaking with the people on the other team. The boss then ridicules the other team and sends out an email to that affect. The laboratory team were unsure of how to handle the situation so decided to not do the task and asked if we would do it for them to keep down confusion. In dealing with this situation, I asked what could be done to rectify the situation because at this point the confidence and loyalty the lab team has with us has been compromised. I feel we should have discussed efforts in solving the issue without consulting the boss. I believe if we had used the three R's, especially respect and relationship, this could have been prevented altogether. In speaking about the subject in a meeting, I began asking questions to try to get a solution to the problem. The administrative team did not want to compromise and felt it necessary to continue giving bad reports to the boss. I am part of the administrative team but don't want to be part of the problem but the solution. I suggested the lab team do what they were asked to do and then communicate when there were discrepancies that were beyond their control. I sincerely believe respect others and treating others the way you want to be treated would definitely help in this situation.