{"id":376,"date":"2016-12-07T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2016-12-07T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:05:20","slug":"the-final-whirl-a-reflective-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/digital-collab\/the-final-whirl-a-reflective-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Whirl: A Reflective Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this is it, guys. This journey through the teachings of small group communications (or digital collaborations, whichever you choose to call it) has finally come to its last stop. We\u2019ve learned a throughout this adventure, though, haven\u2019t we? As we read through A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction<\/em><\/a>, we developed a lot of skills to be able to handle any future situation where we might work in a group or team setting. Granted, that\u2019s going to happen a lot, whether we are looking forward to it or not. We live in a society that has realized the power of groups and the advantages of working towards a team\u2019s goals rather than the individual\u2019s. Let\u2019s take a look at some of those ideas again, shall we?<\/p>\n

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Proper communication is the way for any group to succeed. Just one of the many lessons I learned and understand how to apply to future group situations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started way back at the beginning of the semester discussing the concepts of subgroups working within larger groups<\/a> to accomplish a larger task, applying that to the work I did while working at Bojangles\u2019. As time progressed, I reflected on how \u201cI talked with my eyes<\/a>,\u201d while discussing the different forms of communication. Later on, I became enthralled by the idea of the Six Thinking Hats<\/a>, because it\u2019s just such an interesting way to brainstorm. I will probably be using that method in much future brainstorming sessions. Shortly after that I had a great time revisiting the theory of The Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma<\/a>, because I hadn\u2019t really had to apply its concepts since I was in game design courses a few years ago. While these are only a handful of the lessons I learned over this semester, they stand out as the things that resonated with me.<\/p>\n

My classmates expressed many grand ideas as well as we went through this course together. For example, Jack started an entire mini-series of blog posts dedicated to followership<\/a>; I loved this a lot, because you never really see anyone talk about how to be a good follower. It\u2019s always about how to be a good leader, but no one acknowledges that without the followers, the leader wouldn\u2019t have anyone to lead. Courtney, as a \u201cList Lover\u201d, made many nice blog posts that were filled with lists of information, including her posts on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test<\/a> and Social Loafing<\/a>. Pat was constantly amazed at the content we were learning from the textbook, and while her posts ran the entire gambit of information from each chapter, they served as a good summary for all the things we learned, an example being her post on \u201cthinking styles<\/a>\u201d. Tommy did a good job with making blog posts that made me think about another perspective on the subjects that we discussed that I hadn\u2019t previously considered, such as in his post on physical space and people with disabilities<\/a>. Everyone in the class had great ideas and experiences that really helped with my understanding of the subject matter.<\/p>\n

As a small group communicator, I see myself being able to take these ideas and use them to better any future groups that I might potentially be in. I will have the skills to be able to see the background factors that exist in my group and analyze how those might relate to any conflicts of ideas or feelings that may occur and then use skills of conflict management to help steer the group towards working together as a unified team. I\u2019m a valuable asset for any team situation now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this is it, guys. This journey through the teachings of small group communications (or digital collaborations, whichever you choose to call it) has finally come to its last stop. We\u2019ve learned a throughout this adventure, though, haven\u2019t we? As we read through A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction, we developed a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[50,44],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collab","tag-mmb9","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}