Ending Our Class

ENDING OUR CLASS

 

The last eight weeks have been a learning process. When talking about communication everyone can learn new ways to communicate with others. All of the discussions and blogs has helped me to understand more about the communication language. I have learned ways of communicating with others without having body language or even attitude in my voice. The non-verbal is an area that I really have learned different ways to communicate with others.

I feel we have all learned a lot from all of the discussions and blog assignments. With all of the interaction we have gained more knowledge about the topics each week. I would like to thank everyone for all of the input you have given me throughout this course. I have learned different ways of communicating with people I work with, and know when not to respond. I feel we have all learned something from one another throughout this whole course.

I really wish everyone good luck in their future studies, and hope your journey is what you have expected. I know we all have big plans for the future and my wish is for everyone to succeed in their learning and to gain what they want out of life.

My contact information is robinstapleton90@yahoo.com, or you can look me up on face book. I can not wait until my journey is done have been in school for a long while, and I am ready to enjoy my grandchildren  and traveling as well. Thank you very much hope to hear from you in the future.

WEEK 6

                                                       TEAM BUILDING

You need to have the adjouring stage when completing a project of any kind. The team will be going off into separate ways and moving into other work projects. When you have to end a project that you have worked on for awhile with the group it is very hard to have say good-bye, it will make everyone sad that they will have to brek up a good team. The groups I have worked on we have been able to stay in contact for the most part. It is hard when you build a bond with people and then you have to go on your separate ways.

I do think high performance groups are harder to leave than others, because you are all like family and know everyone on a name basis. When you are treated like family saying good-bye or leaving a group makes you feel like you are breaking your family aprt.

The group that was the clearest norms to me was beibg involved in a "Brownie troop leader" to me they had everything laid out very well of what you was suppose to do at all meetings. They had a couple of people involved in the cookie sales, and the peanut sale. I think it made for all the norms to be very clear for anyone coming in to take over for any one person.

For me the group that was very hard to leave was being a Foster Parent it was a very different kind of group it was one that you really felt like a huge family, because you was taking care of other peoples children, but the agency made you feel like one big family. That was a hard one to say good-bye to ll of my close friends. Some of them I still sty in contact with, but some I do not talk to.

I really have not experienced any  rituals for closing in any group, but I do wish I would of had this information to make my closing from groups a little better than it was. I think it would of made it easier when leaving a couple of groups I was involved in.

I have enjoyed working with all of the colleagues from different parts of the world and the different cultures as well. We have all shared all kinds of ideals that we can use in our own career. We have given a lot of interaction within our discussions and blog  post as well. I am really excited to one day get to meet everyone in person at our graduation cermony. We have all grown into one big group and have gotten to know everyone a little better in each class. I will have to say it is going to be hard to say good-bye in this big group.

I have to say we all need to go through the adjourning stage and not just move on. I wish everyone the best of luck in everything they do in their furture studies or to go to a new job. Whatever God has in plan for them will be the best.

WEEK 5

 

 

 

DISAGREEMENT

 

I am not one to have a conflict with anyone, but here lately at work it has been one conflict after another. I have recently taken on a job as "Health and Safety coordinator", and everyone thinks they do not have to listen to anything I tell them to do. I do not like the feeling at all when I have words with other people. For one I was brought up that you are to respect your elders, and most of the people I have under me are a lot younger than me. I need to really stop and think before I say anything, because maybe I am saying things out of context or with an attitude. I feel I am one that needs to step back and look at the whole picture, and do some active listening before I act on anything. To keep my thoughts to myself and think before I say something I will regret. I think when we are upset at each other we say things before we think and it is usually all negative and no positive reinforcement.     

 

The main thing is to look at myself first and think how we can all stay positive in any conflict and not fly off of the handle so much. Communication is one thing that everyone has no control over how they respond to certain people, and you do not realize you hurt someone's feelings until you have done opened your mouth the wrong way. Sometimes we need to walk away from a situation and come back to it later when we have calmed down, and then try to fix the problem. My situation will get better once we get director that is permanent and not one that is filling in at least that is my opinion on the whole thing for now.

 

I feel using the three R's will help you to know how to communicate with all of your co-workers, friends, or even family members. The three R's is a guide to know how to communicate without having any kind of conflict. It will give you advice on talking with other people and how to control your conversation, so it does not get out of control. We as adults need to stop, and think before we say anything. The main thing is to watch the tone you use that can have some affect on your communication as well.