Personality Traits

I would have to agree with the other people in the group and say that the main thing that the majority of us have contributed is our extroversion.

I have learned from experience (of attending 3 different college campuses) that it can be challenging to approach a new group of people and expect them to deliver on a project that you're all graded on.

I think that my most dominant personality trait would have to be my extroversion. As mentioned in the first blog, I am a very type-A individual. I don't have a fear of talking in front of people or taking initiative, and I love to have conversations with people I haven't met before. This has positively impacted the group project in that we have been able to all brainstorm a group of ideas and find the pros and cons of ideas without taking offense to someones constructive comments. If an idea didn't seem manageable, someone was able to step forward and say so, and no offense was taken by the other person/people in the group. Because we are all so open to getting ideas from other people in the group, we have been able to use this trait to expand our knowledge in other areas, and ask questions we didn't know the answers to.

I also think that agreeableness has been a huge part of the project. We have had positive experience thus far with all of the people in the group stepping out of the "norm" and taking a leader role in some form or another. If there is something that needs to be done and someone asks another person, there has not been one incident where that person has responded with a "No.". This is so great because there is so much to be done to accomplish a project like this one, and the best and most efficient way to accomplish it is to be agreeable and take initiative.

The most prominent impact I believe this has had on the group is that we have been able to build a relationship under the circumstance that we share a common goal and interest. We want to help people. I think that that is what is going to make us most successful.