Team Building and Collaboration

 

This week we read about the five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Considering the adjourning phase for several of the groups in which I have been involved, I  think the aspect of the groups that made for the hardest good-bye was really getting to know one another, sharing, and caring during the adjourning stage.  The groups that I participated in that meant the most to me was my Parole Officer Training group.  We truly went through all five stages during the seven weeks of training that we were together.  This was a group of 23 adults that were changing jobs, left behind children and husbands at a chance for a new career and to make a difference in our communities. Some of my teammates had their mothers pass away while we were at camp.  Others left behind sick relatives (one teammate left a mother that was suffering from cancer).  Four of my teammates were involved in auto accidents while at training camp. We truly shared our ups and downs, prayed together formed study groups, laughed and cried together. This was the hardest group to ever leave. We try to instant message one another at least once every two weeks if not more. I think adjourning  is an essential stage of teamwork because adourning is the connecting face.  As teammates, to better understand and respect one another, you must connect/adjourn to one another.

Effective Communication- 6165- Wk5

 

 

 

I am usually all smiles and easy going. Even after being married for 15 years to a man, that I thought was my everything, and finding out about his infidelity, I chose to decide to be his friend and move on.  Yes, I was hurt but, most of me felt like since we got married so young and he chose to be with someone else while he was committed to me.  Then, he must no longer be the person for me; he must not truly love me because love is patient and kind and love is slow to anger as God teaches us.  So, I decided that I could spend my life being bitter or letting our son see how two grown-ups should be when they decide for whatever “grown up reason”, that they must go their separate ways. I have always listened to whatever he has to say and even when he is still rude and disrespectful to me, I just let him continue on like a little kid having a tantrum.  However, after this week’s lesson, I will focus more on the three principals of the NVC.  I also like the 3R’s and will tell him about them using reverse psychology. Of the two, I think the NVC principals would help me best because, since I have someone else in my life now, my ex has gotten worse and over the course of the last few weeks, I find myself responding to him in loud tones as he never seems to let me speak when we are talking about my son our, he hangs up on me.  The three principals of NVC will allow me to be slow to respond to his negative acts in attempts to soften the conversation.

 

 

 

References: www.robinsharma.com