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.