At beginning, I did not even think of being a leader or any title when i came up. It was just because I lost my patient when people started asking for some "Unreasonable" things and time had not much left. in addition, the first guy who came up in the front was really lonely and he was getting panic. After i came up there, the perspective was very different than when i was sitting in the back. I felt like i was the one who was freezed.
Later, there was one person in the room who rejected all our proposals because he was pretty satisfied of his curved grade. Since Professor said that he would only accept 100%-agreed plan, so there was no way we could skip or ignore that man's rejection. Moreover, there was one lady who just rejected everything we had said, she said " I just did not like it". A deeper meaning of her reason was because people did not even give her a chance to speak her thoughts whiles many others were arguing, complaining with no respect (may be little). then i realized that there were many people who did not even have a chance to speak up their thoughts. Why would i choose compromising is because to get things passed more effectively, the efficient way is to unite all people in the group especially when the group was so large. Then we can make decisions with much less conflict. Those decisions will benefit and satisfy everyone (unless someone is greedy). When small number of people in the group are not satisfied enough, then i choose collaborating method. We will bargain and negotiating back and forth till they agree on the main plan.
Indeed, i saw many people were disengaged from our group discussion. because the classroom was just too noisy. So next time i will firstly talk to leaders and set up some rules in the stage of planning. For instance, everyone has 1 minute to speak up their mind. While they are talking, their speaking shall not be interrupted or stopped by anyone others with any reason (he or she will be muted for the rest of the discussion). More importantly, everyone shall treat others with respect during the discussion and team leaders have to make sure everyone will have a chance to talk. Finally, we vote for whole bunch of objects/suggestions/proposals whatever we agree or not and come up with final solution that represents the whole group's idea.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The "Unbreakable Egg"
Step 1, my group and I did actually go through these processes. We had no clue how to protect the egg nicely with "8 straws" (you kidding me!?!). then two teammates proposed two different form. first, a "Sexy lady" (forgot her name) proposed to get two straws taped and then make a shell/basket with 6 straws. Our second plan, Rachel proposed to just rap all straws and form a cubic (a rectangular cubic) and place the egg in middle of the cubic with 2 ft long tap.
In step 2, then Rachel and the "Sexy lady" had argument. We even talked about how the acceleration, gravity effect the impact when the egg hit on the ground. however, the rest of the team was buying the "Sexy lady' proposal. Meanwhile Rachel was still insisting that her plan was better.
In step 3, I said, "we needed more options to back up our plan". I started thinking about Rachel's plan. afterward, Rachel teared off one lose leave paper and try to make her rectangular cubic. I then said, " we had limited straws, we could not really do a rectangular cubic" and then i suggested if we could make it a cubic of triangle with a squared base. In step, I then proposed to combine both the "Sexy lady" and Rachel's ideas with my further suggestion.
In step 4, the team was united after a few arguments and discussions. Our tactical plan was to tap two straws that connected to our basket, and the two straws extended the length to have our object ( the egg) less impact to the ground when we dropped it. We made double basket to reinforce our shell. two straws like inner basket to hold the egg and connect with 4 straws outer shell and the doubled-shell was connected with two straws.
Step 5, one of our guy named our plan "unbreakable egg". Our final production was ready to be tested. We all seem confident about our tactical plan.
At the end, we made it. However, then there was a sad moment at the end. I forgot to WRITE OUR names on the proposal!!! It was my responsibility that I forgot such the most important and the most basic part of this plan, to give our self credits!! I apologize to you guys. and I am really thankful for the team's contribution.
In step 2, then Rachel and the "Sexy lady" had argument. We even talked about how the acceleration, gravity effect the impact when the egg hit on the ground. however, the rest of the team was buying the "Sexy lady' proposal. Meanwhile Rachel was still insisting that her plan was better.
In step 3, I said, "we needed more options to back up our plan". I started thinking about Rachel's plan. afterward, Rachel teared off one lose leave paper and try to make her rectangular cubic. I then said, " we had limited straws, we could not really do a rectangular cubic" and then i suggested if we could make it a cubic of triangle with a squared base. In step, I then proposed to combine both the "Sexy lady" and Rachel's ideas with my further suggestion.
In step 4, the team was united after a few arguments and discussions. Our tactical plan was to tap two straws that connected to our basket, and the two straws extended the length to have our object ( the egg) less impact to the ground when we dropped it. We made double basket to reinforce our shell. two straws like inner basket to hold the egg and connect with 4 straws outer shell and the doubled-shell was connected with two straws.
Step 5, one of our guy named our plan "unbreakable egg". Our final production was ready to be tested. We all seem confident about our tactical plan.
At the end, we made it. However, then there was a sad moment at the end. I forgot to WRITE OUR names on the proposal!!! It was my responsibility that I forgot such the most important and the most basic part of this plan, to give our self credits!! I apologize to you guys. and I am really thankful for the team's contribution.
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