On our Monday’s class activity, I first took the avoidance, and then I used collaborating to handle the conflict.
I took the avoidance when class was in completely mess, after Professor announced the situation about we had to come up our own ideas to treat our grade, people were yelling to each other, but the fact was the ideas going to be passed only if we all vote “yes” at the end of the class period, which I thought was almost impossible, it was extremely hard to make the decision when a guy yelled at me : “ do you want curve or do you want to drop the lowest grade.” I chose avoidance, withdrawal from the chaos, thought there was no chance to win.
I used collaborating when there finally came up a leader, which gave us a surprised option, guess what! We can have both--- the curve and the drop of the lowest grade. He calmed people down, and wrote options on the board to let everyone to choose from these options, and kept asking if everyone agreed. I turned to collaborate; there was a chance, at least.
For the future decision making I would use accommodation, which seeing issue as more important to others than self, it would lead to a more desirable result.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The Egg Plan
Our group went success on the egg plan. We went through every step in the planning process.
Step 1. Define your goals and objectives. We all know to use the straws to protect the egg, show at least 30% of the egg, drop the egg from 10 feet hight, also the deadline are 10 minutes.
Step 2. Determine your resources and current status vis-à-vis objectives. We drew some pictures to show what to do and evaluate those egg and straws see what they actually are.
Step 3. Develop several alternative strategies. We actually came out many ideas, we drew all of them, and also we explain them to everyone in the group.
Step 4. Make a tactical plan. We finally decided to use the strategy with a little “cheat”, to use 4 straws to protect the egg form its bottom, then use rest of the straws attaches the top of the egg in order to make the falling distance short.
Step 5. Implement the plan and evaluate results. The plan turned success when we display it to the whole class. And we all happy with it.
Step 1. Define your goals and objectives. We all know to use the straws to protect the egg, show at least 30% of the egg, drop the egg from 10 feet hight, also the deadline are 10 minutes.
Step 2. Determine your resources and current status vis-à-vis objectives. We drew some pictures to show what to do and evaluate those egg and straws see what they actually are.
Step 3. Develop several alternative strategies. We actually came out many ideas, we drew all of them, and also we explain them to everyone in the group.
Step 4. Make a tactical plan. We finally decided to use the strategy with a little “cheat”, to use 4 straws to protect the egg form its bottom, then use rest of the straws attaches the top of the egg in order to make the falling distance short.
Step 5. Implement the plan and evaluate results. The plan turned success when we display it to the whole class. And we all happy with it.
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