decision making

I myself used the "avoidance" method in dealing with the situation. I felt that everyone was too out of control in terms of yelling out a million different things, not giving others a chance to speak, etc...so I just chose to not add another voice on top of everything else that wouldn't be heard or acknowleged..at least not until things calmed down a bit. Other methods that I observed were "compete to win" when students were yelling above everyone else to demand that their way was the only way and the best way, "compromise" when the few students at the front of the room were trying to hear out the different opinions from everyone, and then collaborating at the very end when everyone noticed time to be running out and we needed a sense of ordinance to be efficient in our decision making. At this point we came up with a plan and stuck to it to present it to Professor Kurpis. In my opinion, I think there was a better way to go at all of this to reach an outcome faster and with less conflict. What I would have done is to tell everyone that only one voice would be heard at a time. There would be no side conversations, and everyone would be given the chance to voice their own thoughts and opinions while everyone had a chance to listen. I feel that a lot of time would have been saved this way.

"An eggs-cellent way to plan"

My group was the group who completed the project successfully. I do believe that by going through each step in the planning process and not bypassing anything led us to our success. I think that because we were given such a short time limit, most of the other groups tried to skip some of the steps or "breeze" through them which could have caused their plans to have failed. I was very proud and pleased with the way our group performed and handled our planning as a whole. We used our time wisely, used our resources to our advantage, and brainstormed to hear everyone's opinions which allowed us to think outside of the box. The one thing I think I might have changed if we were able to complete this project again would be to designate a team leader. We all acted as leaders, and I think we might have been a little more organized in the planning process if we did give one person the title as our leader.