Decision making

In our group perception and decision making have been used throught out our project as well as this week. The first thing that stands out to me is how well our group has made the right decisions. I feel that we consult one another and way out the positives and negatives that come along with each choice. I also feel that this played a role this week when we were handing out flyers Tyler and I had to give off a good perception to the students and staff that we were a legit group and for them to give us their time.

Our group overal is hitting this project out of the park and do to such a strong team we will collect 1000 books!

Decision Making and Perceptions

Are group has used the decision-making process throughout this entire project to figure out the best ways to go about accomplishing are goals. We have thought about all the ways to make are project run as smoothly as possible and looked at multiple solutions to problems. We have become closer as a group, and really feel like we are getting to know each other a lot more. This will help on are perceptions knowing how the rest of group members will react to are input, and solutions we come up with when we are facing a bump in the road.

Perceptions and Decision Making

This week I felt perception and decision making had a major impact on our group. This week we held an information table in the walkway between Lubar Hall and the Union. As a group we all spent time sharing information with the students. The two perceptions that stood out to me during this event were how students and faculty as well as our team members reacted to our information booth.

My perception was that some people were annoyed, others interested, some confused, while many didn't react at all. I used these observations to make a decision to change our information pitch. We shared more information by hitting key points they could hear while walking through the hallway without a lot of elaboration. The key points shared were,"we are holding a book drive, children's books are needed, drop boxes in Lubar lecture halls through next week, to put in first responders cars." This seemed to clear up the confusion if they only heard a little of what was going on. We also noticed some people would reach for the fliers if they were interested in what were saying, while uninterested people would pull out their phone or put their hands in their pockets. Our decision was to offer the flier and let them take it from us so we were not forcing fliers into the hands of unwilling participants. If they were interested they grabbed the offered flier and if not we let them walk by versus our earlier attempts to get fliers to everyone. This approach seemed to clear up the annoyance. We did not want to have a negative reaction so this really helped.
Overall, we had more people interested than we expected and we felt the information session was productive. The second observation I noticed was because I was the loudest and more outgoing I ended up dominating the table when I was with the group. I used these perceptions to make a decision to step away and let the others take over because I wanted the whole group to experience the recruiting aspect of the project. When I returned to our table I was pleased to see everyone was participating and more comfortable sharing information. I enjoyed watching the others in the group grow during this experience and know it will help them in the future in their careers!

Perceptions

In our group perceptions and decision‐making processes have played a big part in our group. Each time we make a decision we consider all the effects the will happen and what perception we will give off by doing so. This has allowed us to work together and become a stronger team that will lead us to our end goal, which is to collect over 1,000 books.

Perceptions and decision making

I think that decision making has played a major role in our group project so far. Everyone in our group has at one point had to make an important decision that has helped our project get to the point that it is at today. If we all lacked decision making skills we would be nowhere near as far along as we are and would be much more worried about finishing up everything on time, and the project would definitely struggle because of that. I also think perceptions are important because as a group member you have to think about how other members would perceive decisions that you make regarding the project as a whole. You don't want to make a decision that would upset other group members in any way, so you have to think about what would be a logical way of going about things while also keeping the other members of your group in mind.

Personality traits

The personality trait that was most evident to me from the self assessment test was agreeableness. This just shows that I am willing to go along with my group while also giving my own opinions to help our group in the best way possible. I noticed that pretty much the whole group found that they had similar personality traits which I think has definitely helped us get along so well and made it much easier to get the necessary work done to complete our project.

Personality Traits

The trait i had the highest score in was Agreeableness and it means i am cooperative and trusting. I would say that everyone in the group also had a high score in agreeableness because we had no problems at all in our group as far as disputes or with people refusing to do a task assigned to them. For a group porject to be succesful i think it is very important for a majority of the people in the group to have high scores in agreeableness but i also understand the rewards to having a broad selection of personalities in a group.

Traits

On the basic personality assessment I scored the highest in conscientiousness which is defined as "someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented." I feel that so far these characteristics have been reflected in my contributions to our project. I am the group member who is responsible for collecting and compiling the Milestone's from the group and ensuring they are submitted on time. I feel my personality traits have helped us to submit all our Milestones on time with everyone making a contribution. The fact that the team trusts me to do this very important aspect of our group project is a reflection of my score on the "Do Others See Me as Trustworthy" assessment on which I scored very high.
Another way my personality has helped this project is my dedication and persistence to overcome obstacles to make this project successful. When we thought we may not be able to hold a book drive on campus I helped our group make other connections and come up with ways we could raise books/funds which were not in our original plan. I think my passion for this project is a reflection of my high score on the Engagement Assessment. I am very excited for the opportunity to help With Wings and a Halo become more successful.

Personalities

What i found out in my basic personality test for my self assessments is that my highest one was agreeableness. I believe that is a huge part of teamwork and has helped are group along. We have had to come to compromises on what parts of the projects we are going to contribute to. There have also been parts of the projects where we have worked on it in smaller groups of two or three where we have had to agree on how was the best way to finish are tasks we needed to complete.

dominant personality trait

Hello All,

I believe that my dominant personality trait that has helped out the group the most would be my determination. I feel, that in our group meetings and get togethers my determinination and "get work done", attitude has helped us move along and get through specific hang up's for example, our flyers. The determination that I have exemplified will continue to be very useful as we get near the end or our project. This helping the group to stay strong and continue the good work that we have been showing.



Tyler Corrigan

This project has been impacted by my attitudes in many positive ways. I have found the goals of With Wings and A Halo REACH a Child to be closely aligned with my own personal feelings and interests. Some of the common cognitive components are children need to trust first responders and not be intimidated by them so they can do their jobs. The children are often innocent victims in bad situations and need something positive to focus on during these difficult times. The books provided to first responders help them make a connection with these children and help them gain trust and respect by using books. The affective components of this are I love to read and greatly respect all first responders for their bravery and dedication to helping others. I also have found great enthusiasm and conviction in myself by becoming involved with this organization. The behavioral component of this is I am going to personally stay involved with this organization beyond the scope of this class assignment, support them in their cause by donating my time, let others know about this project, and try to involve as many people as I can. Our group is going to do a book drive, sort books, and deliver them to first responders to make an impact.
My attitudes have also impacted our group experience in positive ways such as I feel the affective component of my attitude about this project has made the other members of my group excited and eager to participate. The group has a shared agreement that this is a good organization which is the cognitive component. The behavioral component is the group has taken in achieving the common goal of having a successful book drive and delivery. Overall I have found this to be an exciting opportunity to work with other students to support a great organization.
Keely Pemberton

Attitudes

I think as a group we have meshed very well, and all have good attitudes towards this project and towards each other. I think we have a great organizer/leader in Keylee who gets all the rest of groups thoughts put in place. Me and Mike have been trying to find new ways to get other people/groups involved such as the elementary school on campus. So far i feel a very positive vibe as we continue to work on this project. I feel very good about are group and look forward to finishing this project up.

attitudes

Our group has been very successful i feel that we have very very strong leadership in keeylee along with hard working members who have put the project and other components of the project ahead of other classes. A few things that i helped to contribute to our sucess is as followed, I have been collaberating everyones schedules so we can meet and take advantage of the time we get together. second, i have scoped out the best spots to post our book drive. overal our group is running very smoothly and am looking foward to getting the man components of our projects rolein.

Attitudes

So far in this project our group has had a good mix of the three components of attitudes. we have used cognitive compnent to set up and discuss the ideas we have. Then, using affective coponent to make the plans of what we are going to do. Finally, we used behavioral coponent to act open our ideas by setting up the dates and contacting people about our project.

group attitudes

I think that so far everything has run pretty smoothly in our group which is definitely helped by everyone getting along and doing their individual part of the project. I think that ever group member has been very positive so far and has given very helpful input to this project. I think that by keeping up with one another we have made sure that we are still on point and are continuing to motivate one another to do the best that we can with this project and I would say that so far everything has gone pretty well