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Communication in Other Environments-Den building

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After our outdoor den building session for Situated Communication, we were asked a number of questions in relation to the communication methods used in our group:

Group and Leadership

There was no chosen group leader, instead we discussed our plan as a team and allocated roles accordingly.  As everybody was concentrating on successful completion of the task and we all got along well nobody was excluded and there were no problems.  The only challenging aspect was that we did not manage to secure many of the materials supplied by the lecturer, as the other groups had taken most of it.

Explaining

The group clearly explained how they went about their task and the roles that everyone undertook in simple terms. They gave us information on the construction of their den and pointed out particular features that made it unique to them.  Our group gave positive feedback and asked questions as to how they completed certain aspects of their task, and discussed these.   In terms of the 5 P’s, the ‘postmortem’ could have been carried out with our input as this would have been valuable.

Environment

Our group successfully started the task by having a group discussion and we identified our strengths in certain areas and allocated roles accordingly. Everybody had an opportunity to speak and no-one did not voice their opinions.  These opinions were respectfully listened to and taken on board by the rest of the team.  We encouraged one another by offering ideas that were discussed further by the group, and everyone felt secure and supported in offering their opinions in an attempt to share our group’s goal.  We had to raise our voices slightly in order to communicate what we were doing, as were were working apart from one another, but not to the point of shouting. As a group we were enjoying the task and there was a fun camaraderie atmosphere.  The outside environment was not too noisy as it was a still, dry day and there were not many members of the public walking by, which is unusual as it is a popular dog walk and this could be distracting.

Negotiation

The most challenging part was the negotiation aspect; one team member in particular had good very negotiating skills but we failed to achieve a defector from another group in exchange for something they wanted.

 

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