Friday, March 18, 2011
At first I thought that to make a decision that everyone agrees to it's gonna be piece of cake - we all want the same thing! Turns out that decision making within a big group of people is a challenge. Professor said that size of the group don't matter, even two men can make this process difficult. True. But what I found interesting during the class "chaos" making the right choises for all was that I kept quite for most of the time. It's not like me. I do participate in any kind of decision making when it comes around but this time I felt it was too many "speakers". And it's not like I don't care what the result of the debate it's going to be, it's just frustrating to screem what I want loud. I have to say that making decisions IS easier in a smaller groups - for argument itself. Even though I wasn't the one who throw the ideas around but I was collaborating with others - those around me. We spoke with each other about our ideas and then one or two raised their hands to get leader's attention. I think that's better way to actually achieve some results in a such big croud. After all, timing is everyting and most of the guys were happy with the result. Most of them....
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I agree that the size of the class was a big obstacle in our decision making process. I thought me too that will be easy to come up with a "deal". I did as you did,first I tried to shout out my ideas and after I realized nobody cares, I just sat there and waited till they finished. I like to compete to win ,collaborate and compromise, but with so many people was not easy to even get their attention and make them listen to my ideas.
ReplyDeleteIt is so much easier to decide on something if you surrounded by a small group of people, I cannot agree more with you. When you in a small group, you do not need to scream over other to make your voice heard, people do not interrupt you and more willing to listen and compromise. In a big group, especially one that never had an experience to make decisions as a big group it is very unlikely to come to a compromise. I think that if we had more time we would create a better proposal for our professor. Even though I feel that we voted on a good proposal we could have get something better, but raised our hands in unison just to make our timing and get something instead of nothing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I am more of a listener because I really care about what everyone thinks in the group no matter how large. Although, majority ideas win. I chose to vote or agree with certain view points when they arose but I was not a screamer and a shouter acting out of desperation. Sometimes when you just listen to each other it may eliminate some of the shouting.
ReplyDeleteI think that's interesting to hear that you guys formed your own little group and worked together to be heard. I was up in the front so it was a little easier for me to voice my opinion but if I were in the back I would have done the same thing. I think that if the whole class was able to break up into smaller groups it would have made the whole process more pleasant!
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