Team Evolution

Orientation

18 May, this was the first day we met each other. Each of us differs in many aspects in terms of faculty, education background,culture,personality and interest. We are so glad to know each other through this assignment. Everyone was kind of introverted during the first meeting as everyone was still in the process of getting to know each other more. Most of the time, we were only using non-verbal communication such as "eye contact" or even gestures.To overcome this non-conversation barrier, we started to exchange email and Facebook account. We have a common goal which is to accomplish this assignment with good grade. In order to know each other more,we shared our personal information via email and seek for other information from social medias such as Facebook and Twitter.  

Conflict

23 May, this was the first time we set for meeting. The meeting was totally informal; we were just having a late meeting for about 10-15mins. This was where the conflict happened. People are self-centered, we only believe on our understanding no matter it is right or wrong. We misunderstood the idea of this assignment, we argued for personal’s evaluation and belief, we fought for personal’s right, we tended to control the group, we had conflict with our goals. Our social behavior were totally indifferent. Some of us think that timeline is very crucial for this assignment, however, the others do not have the same thinking. Moreover, not all of us are using  the same software in personal's laptop which it will slow down the process in doing this assignment. For example, some of us who don't have the new version of Microsoft Word will not be able to open the file we sent. In conclusion, we knew that we were lack of efficiency, time management and communication. To avoid being out of track, we decided to get the information from our lecturer and came out with some rules and a set of timeline schedule. 

            

Brainstorming

Next day, we set a meeting again. This time, everyone came prepared as job scope has already been given to each other in advance. We divided the group into 2 whereby one group works on the blog and design; another group works on the report and PowerPoint – task oriented. We set a due date for every task and start working on our task. For the members who do design need to think about the concept of the blog, the blog's design, the setting of blog, and the contents of the blog. For those who are responsible for paper work and PowerPoint, they have to write a formal report and create simple yet nice PowerPoint slides.

            

Emergence

Every member of our group is supportive and encouraging, which all of us agreed with the concept and idea of the blog and report after discussion. We always make fun during our discussion to reduce the pressure and seek for more creativity. We continuously add on some ideas into the blog through email. Finally, majority of us agree with the ideas as everyone is heading towards the same goal.

Reinforcement

Everyone in our group is responsible, we accomplished the task on time. Everything ran smoothly. We kept posting and updating our work day by day till the assignment is accomplished.