Week 8: Goodbye

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” 

-Henry Ford

I want to take this chance to thank each and every one of you. At the beginning of this class I thought I knew all their was to know about communicating but I was wrong, I learned so much and I learned so much from all of you. Sharing your stories, your thoughts, your insights, etc has really shown me that we are different but are all very capable of working together and learning from each other. Thank you for progressing through this class with me and I know with everything we have learned that we will all be success in the end!


I wish you all the best,
Amy

Week 6: Group Development

During the summer of 2007 I was involved in a program called Camp Adventure and lived in Naples Italy for 3 months. I along with 15 other college students worked as camp counselors for military children. This was the hardest group I have ever had to leave. We had to constantly work together to program for the children we were working with, we had to plan events, etc. I know we went through the “storming” process but looking back I have nothing but great memories. By the end of our 3 months of task happened like clock work, we all just knew what we had to do and got it done. I think the reasons why the adjourning process was so is because we had become a family over those three months and had to depend on each other, learned so much together and experienced so much together. 

When my colleagues and I are going through the adjourning process I think it will be very positive one. We have all worked together and will have accomplished what we set out to do. I think we will all be happy for each other and excited for what the future holds. 

Adjourning is essential because it gives you closure and time to reflect. 

Week 5: Conflict Resolution

Current disagreement that I am having is I have a staff member who is challenging (testing out of doing their whole module) their school age care modules and wants to come in extra, on the clock, to finish their modules. According to Navy policy I can give time to people who are completing the whole modules but not to those who are challenging them. This staff member is in disagreement with Navy policy and thinks they should get paid to study for the test. 

Ways that I could resolve this disagreement are:

I could use Gerber’s 3R’s, “Respectful, reciprocal, and responsive”, maybe I just need to take more time to explain why and show her the policy. 

Another method could be to look at the “third side” and find a solution with my staff member.