Group and Leadership
I believe that our group worked really well together, there was no direct leader appointed but one of our group members, Rebecca, has previously done tasks like this within her role as a Guide Leader so therefor she had more knowledge than the rest of us and naturally became group leader. Rebecca had a very good impact on helping the group decide the area in which we were going to build and which materials to use. However, Rebecca being ‘group leader’ did not affect any of the other team members, in my opinion, as each person had a different task and it worked really well. Each individual team members opinions were all listened to and incorporated as much as possible in the making of our ‘den’.
Explaining
The group who were explaining to us did a very good job, one girl in particular started the presentation but as she went on more of their group added in information. They explained very well why they designed their den the way they did. It was portrayed very well. I think they successfully completed the 5P’s.
EnvironmentÂ
I found that working outdoors you had to project your voice more and sometimes repeat or ask a team member to repeat what they had said, this was due to the natural sounds outdoors such as the wind and birds chirping. More often than not, a lot of non-verbal communication forms were used. Sometimes the natural outdoors can be distracting as leaves are falling off trees, trees are changing colour and bird flying around – not to mention the local dogs coming over for a visit. Although, I think my group coped well with the distractions and stayed focused on our given task.
Negotiation
Our negotiation task was to swap one of our team members for a member from another team. Our negotiation was unsuccessful. One member of our team made attempts at negotiating but most teams were well underway in their tasks and no one wanted a swap. This is understandable as we felt the same way, we had just got to know everyone better, started our indivdual tasks and we did not want to swap with someone else after having started building our den.
