During the exercise I examined the situation an felt it was best for me to stand back and let everyone else handle the situation. I definitely needed the help but i saw that others were willing to fight hard for the same thing i wanted. my actions do not fall under the avoidance way because i definitely felt that we were going to be successful; but i did take myself out of the interaction. I feel it was best that i did what i did because if too many people were to get involved then nothing would be accomplished. I am happy with my decision on how i operated in the exercise; i got involved when there needed to be a decision about the T/F questions. After much argument of whether to have them or not a student suggested 5 questions i felt that was reasonable an i chanted 5 in agreement which i think led others to join in on that resolution.
knowing what i know now i would not want to change my way of working on the situation but if i had to i would have worked in a way to compromise. in the end that is how we were successful and compromise is the less of all evils in my opinion. I think we already received the best result so i would not expect improvement for me to change my way of handling the conflict.
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Hmm.. very interesting point, I've never looked at it in the way you put it. I guess having another person scream out the same idea would not really help improve the atmosphere. BUT, would the same ideas have come about if you did not participate? That would not be safe to assume because more likely than not when people hear an idea, they too feel that they had that in mind or whatnot. The problem with this is that if the idea is never communicated, then it will not be heard. Luckily this time, the ideas that were thrown around, you agreed with.
ReplyDeleteI guess what Im trying to get across is that you shouldn't just follow this routine every time a conflict arises within a group. Your opinion counts and needs to be known about. You may not always agree and hopefully won't feel compelled to always agree with others.