Communication Skills

Communication is a major role in organizations and especially in teams. If a team doesn't have communication, how are they suppose to meet due dates and complete goals. I have always had positive communication skills in whatever job or team I've been a part of. For this project our group has had great communication. By meeting multiple times a week, our group is constantly communicating outside of class. We make it work by making it easy to get a hold of one another.

Communication was one of the strong personality traits during my self-assessment. Communication has always been important to me throughout my life. In order to be a great team member for this project, I always communicate with my group, whether it's via email, phone calls, or text messages. We live in a fast pace world, where technology has made it easier to communicate with one another.

Jesse Filo

motivation - kayleigh

Motivation has always been the make or break point in a group project. The worst group projects, with disorganized results, almost always stem from lack of motivation and conflicting group goals. This hasn't been the case during this project, as everyone is working together to achieve our goals. This is due to the motivation we have to complete this project, and to complete it successfully.

Being at HALO, physically interacting with the chlidren was ultimate motivation. It proved that we were making a difference, and the project isn't just on paper anymore. We are motivated to continue our success and continue seeing the results we have achieved.

Motivation

Motivation has played a huge role in our project. Motivation has been very positive in each team member every week so far. As we get together each week to talk about what were going to do at the homeless shelter, we are all motivated to think of the best ideas, and create the best agenda. Motivation has allowed us to come up with each theme every week as we go to the homeless shelter. Motivation has helped every member greatly each week. We are all motivated to help the children were working with, and we all want to get the best footage.

As the project continues, motivation will play a huge role during production. We will be motivated to use many different types of media in our production to make the best video. For this whole project we were all motivated to set goals, and make the best project possible.

-Jesse Filo-

Perceptions and decision making

I have never really liked to do group work on school projects. It almost always ends up being a last minute effort to whip something together. usually nobody steps up to lead the group. when i heard that in Organizations we have a major group project i perceived a bunch of people in my group not wanting to be there. once our groups were formed I realized that this project was one that was defiantly not going to be whipped together. It seems that everyone in my group has at least one point in their life where they have had to pull a group together and lead. my perceptions greatly changed on that first day when we delegated tasks throughout the group. I think our group is special in that we all know what needs to be done and that we can count on one another to all meet at the end goal. decision making in our group has been very easy because my fellow group members are all very willing to dedicate their time and pitch in.

I'm hopeful that the children we are helping at the HALO organization will learn from our group the importance of teamwork and perceiving one another as equals.

Perceptions and Decision Making

I had a positive perception of this multi-media project when we first learned about it, because this project is different than the typical business projects we usually do in college. Instead of making a PowerPoint presentation and doing a speech, we get to go out in the real world and make a video. When I was first put in my group I had a perception about every member in it. Just by meeting them and talking for a couple of minutes I made a general impression about each of them. They all left me with positive impressions, which I made from a noticeable characteristic each of them had. This is called the halo effect. Throughout this project I have had a positive perception on what were going to complete.

We have had to make many decisions during this project. Our group has done very well while making decisions. While brainstorming every member has taken in everyone’s opinions and we’ve made all our decisions smoothly together. Even when we had our first field day, we had to think on our toes, and as a group we successfully made the right decisions to have a positive experience.

As this project continues my perception keeps becoming more and more positive. I am excited to go out and volunteer more, and to make more positive decisions together.

-Jesse Filo-

Perceptions and Decision Making - Kayleigh

I have mixed perceptions about group projects, especially when it comes to school work. I usually like to lead the project, and be in total control. When I first joined this group, Rebecca clearly seemed to have the best upfront qualities to become the project leader. I had a Business Writing class with Rebecca last semester, and I perceived her as an organized, take-charge leader. My perceptions were correct as she brings those qualities and more to this project. I was also happy to see my group all had the same general goals and outlooks for this project, and it was easier to work together.

Based on our ability to see a common goal, we have had an easy time making major decisions during this process. Our project has many different aspects, and we need to agree on everything in order to execute properly and professionally. The bottom line meaning we have to compromise and work together. Most decisions are unanimous, and if someone has a discrepancy, his or her point is clearly made - and then reflected to the others.

I feel our group has an easy time making decisions for our project, as we perceive each other as equals. I do not feel that any member is unable to do their work completely or inadequately. We really came together as a group today during our first trip to HALO.

Perceptions and Decision Making - Rebecca

When we began this project, I had a fear of working with groups - I didn't like the idea of depending on other people to get a grade for a class. Once the project started, I learned that my perceptions of the individuals in my group were not what they should have been. In stead of believing that I would be in a failing group like my past groups, I learned that once people opened up we all had a similar personality structure - attitudes and ideas.

Because of the personalities in the group, the decision making process has generally been pretty straight forward. We have been able to collaborate as a group and come to a conclusion that everyone agrees with. We take more of a rational decision-making route, mainly because there are a lot of things we would have Enjoyed doing with this project, but there are only certain things that we can actually reasonably accomplish. So we have been able to analyze situations and give each other valid ideas to accomplish multiple tasks with the greatest success.

With working with the children, we have been able to chose between a variety of activities and chose between whether or not something is related to the lesson we intend to teach.