How to through an egg from an arm's distance and not to crack it? Our group didn't manage this assignment... and the egg cracked! To analyze what went wrong, we received another assignment to identify each steps and how we did it.Step 1. Define your goals and objectives. Our group was not bad at this. We understood our task - the egg shouldn't get cracked. We spoke about various ways of protecting it from the impact and cracking. Our group, though, had a few opinions and by the end when we were pressed by time, we didn't choose the best set of offered actions. In this case, I think, we needed to have one leader, who would be responsible for the project.
Step 2. Determine your resources and current status vis-à-vis objectives. Our group understood very well that we had limited resources at our hands to cope with the assignment. It was a little stressful to understand the limitation of time and resources, and we valued any opinion. We also tried to plan how we could efficiently use our resources.
Step 3. Develop several alternative strategies. We discussed what might happen and tried to improve every idea.
Step 4. Make a tactical plan. The roles were allocated to every member of the team and everyone was very helpful and tried to do his/her best.
Step 5. Implement the plan and evaluate the results. I believe, this was our weakest part. Because we had very little time left, we started panicking and actually didn’t have time to complete what we wanted to do.
Even though we didn’t do the assignment successfully, I believe, we had a good experience of working as a team and listen to and value different opinions, to respect other member’s opinion, and think critically.
From your explanation, it seems that the only problem this group had was that of time. It's good to hear that everybody's opinion was heard and respected contrary to the other blogs I have been reading. More than often, there is always someone who is ignoring a certain idea and only focuses on a biased approach in planning. The ability to listen and soak in everybody's input is an extremely important component when it comes to functioning as a whole. Sorry to hear that your egg had cracked but the fact that the group dynamic was so well maintained shows that the organization was there and I am pretty sure that if more time was allotted, the egg would've survived.
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Francis Cho
It seems that your group did a good job on the planning aspect of the assignment but just ran short of time in the end. Knowing that time was a major factor in the destruction of your egg and now that you have seen the rest of the groups and the outcomes of their projects, Do you feel as if you were awarded more time you would have successfully completed the task? Would you make any changes now that you saw the other ideas and projects and their end results?
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