Greater Expectations

I just want to say this has been a great journey for me. I would like to thank first and foremost Dr. Ferrari for being an understanding professor. Thanks so much. To all my colleagues thanks for being wonderful listeners as well as wonderful writers and opinionated colleagues. This course was a wonderful experience to my journey to getting my masters degree.

Team Development

This week you read about the five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Consider the adjourning phase for several of the groups in which you have been involved. Think about which aspects of the groups made for the hardest good-bye. Are high-performing groups hardest to leave? Groups with the clearest established norms? Which of the groups that you participated in was hardest to leave? Why? What sorts of closing rituals have you experienced or wish you had experienced? How do you imagine that you will adjourn from the group of colleagues you have formed while working on your master's degree in this program? Why is adjourning an essential stage of teamwork?

The hardest goodbye for me was when I was laid off of a job in June of 2011. It was the hardest goodbye because it was a sudden unknown goodbye. It all happened so fast. High preforming groups can be te hardest to leave if the quality is right and the people treat you right. It also can be the hardest to leave if there are alot of good incenitives given to the employee. Grous with the clearest established norms can be hard to leave because it is easier to work for someone like that and that puts your heart and mind at ease. My job like I said was the hardest to leave because it was a sudden goodbye and I do not think I had enough time to show my worth. Some closing rituals that I have experience was parties, plaques, and goodbye farewells. I wish I had experienced more time.  I will say that a formal farewell will be good because we could cross paths again if my colleagues decide to further their education as I wish to do. Adjourning is an essential part of teamwork because you have to close out all relationship whether good or bad terms. 

Communication Effectiveness

two strategy approaches that I have learned that will help me solve an on work is the respect of the conflict and making sure I give a listening ear to the person the conflict involves as well as make sure I get my point across so that I can come to a positive resolution. The strategies are effective because they help me understand why I should present them in a conflict. Another strategy would be negotiation because I can come up with something that works for me and the other person in the conflict. I could use all three R's in my conflict because it does deal with an irate parent about the problems there child presents in my classroom on a day to day basis. I could look for a broader range of solutions, but I would rather use solutions I know more about to present to the situation at hand.

Communcation between different Cultures

Think about the cultural diversity you see in your colleagues at school, in your neighborhood, in your workplace, and also, possibly, within your family. Consider all the aspects that make up culture, including race, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, varying abilities, and so on.

• Do you find yourself communicating differently with people from different groups and cultures?
• If yes, in what ways do you communicate differently?

I do find my self communicating differentl with people from different cultures. It is not because they are different nor is it a bad way of communicating, sometimes you have to make things come in plan sight for some people and some generations, or sometimes you have to be complex with people when communicating it is all in the way you feel the need to communicate. Sometimes you may even feel yourself becoming a bit out of character tring to communicate with people with no manners, or no home training. Sometimes yo are more discreet with people who are more personal with there culture. It al depends on the way the person you are communicating with comes off on you. Tree strategies that I would use would be the Platinum rule, effective communicatiopn, and even nonverbal communication. It would be all up to how the person's approach is.

Communication through TV(movies)

So as I looked at the movie  with the sound off. I notice a big difference from when I look at it with the sound on. Some of the gestures do not go with the words. If you do not listen with the  sound on you would never know some of the things that you know with the sound off. I do think if it was a movie I was familiar with I would definitely know the movie with the sound on and off. I did make a few assumptions with the sond off that did not take place with he sound on.

Effective Communication

The person that I chose was President Obama. I love he way he is articulate he presents all segments of the communication model, and is on point with feedback and clear with it when in a press conference. So I sometimes take notes on how he is effective with his communication. I would love to model some of his communication skills to my families such as the direct forwardness and the communication where he gets straight to the point.