Team Ideas

Fellow teammate Saboy82 summarizes that through a “a hint of redundancy” the main idea from the articles “expressing” by Mckay, Davis, & Fanning and “Putting Feelings Into Words” by John Gottman is that “by expressing your feelings you can take control of the situation.” They also say that Rosenfeld & Richman’s article, as well as David Johnson’s article contain ideas on being open with other people as well as that it is “good to know what to disclose.” Saboy82 then comments that “these ideas may play a significant role when interacting with fellow team members.” They also mention that when “all ideas and comments are expressed, this will enhance the team productivity and way of thinking.” I think this member believes that through keeping the concepts from these readings in mind, we will be more effective and productive as a team.

Other team three member, Spiceynoodlesoup, expresses similar ideas about how the principles from the four articles mentioned above should be used and will be helpful for the group project. They say: “Basically, I need to exhale positive attitude about our situation as students in a group project, and I need to express clearly and directly that I want to do the work and that this whole process could even be fun.” Spiceynoodlesoup also suggests that they will “use impression management so my teammates will know I want to do the work and want to be apart of the team.” They seem to be proposing a similar approach as Saboy82 does: that we should strive to emulate the ideas from the articles. It is clear that Spiceynoodlesoup has internalized that concepts and is engaged in using the ideas for their IPC efforts!

Final team member Gym411 said very similar things in regards to the readings and group work. They summarize many key points in the assigned readings and finish by saying, “by taking all these elements into account once can better decide how open and “deep” one wants to get with the other participants (in our case classmates).” Also, in their suggestions for how the teams should be grouped they say that “some of us are laid back and like to wait till the last minute to get work done, and others like to work with a schedule and do things way before they are due” and that the teams should be grouped by similar work ethics. Gym411 seems to subscribe to the “laid-back” approach but unfortunately this is very inconvenient for me. I hope our group can work out the kinks and collaborate efficiently!

I think that these ideas certainly are helpful and thoughtful, and it is clear that we can benefit from the readings. Whatever work we will be doing, from reading my teammates entries so far, I can see that everyone is on board and thinking about applying the information we’ve learned from these articles to the group work. I am happy to see the excitement in our group and I like and agree with what Spiceynoodlesoup offers saying “hopefully this project will just be a frenzy of nexting from the beginning.”