Decision making

Chaos is the best word to describe the class activity. It was loud and everywhere. During the class activity i saw some who were leaders, followers and people who just sat there. Also something that i saw that was great was that the "leaders" were asking the professor what he would allow and what he wouldnt. It was great that we were all coming together to decide on a common benefit.
Throughtout the activity i did notice that in some situations those that were so involved in the beginning slowly dimed down and those who were quiet were up and about. Personalities did clash when some did not want others to take the role as "leader". Goal differences arouse when some wanted multiple choice(original one choice) and others wanted just eassay , the rest wanted both, but when we all listened to each other and actually communicated we all came to a common ground.
I believed i handled conflict in this class by means of accomodation. I chose this method because it seemed to most that the way the test was or what the format is was going to change the material that would be on it . It means more to the class what the format was and to me the material was just going to be the same material.

"Egg"nificent Job!

Planning process :

My team decided to begin by planning on how to protect the egg bottoms up. We measured how much material we would use to safeguard the egg, but still meeting guidelines of having 50% of the egg showing. Drawing a sketch was one of the beginning step. We needed a visual of what the safeguard would look like. Knowing what our goal and objective and what are resources were was what helped enable us to know how and where to start. In the resources step which happened during our planning stage we were able to know which role we would all play ( one person would draw, another was more the leader and others just built).
We really didn't think of many ways (tactical alternatives) . What we ended up doing was only deciding from 1 of 2 choices . We were so stuck on those two ways that we really didn't think outside of the box like most of the other teams. Also, being timed also created a sense of urgency which i think clouded our judgment on how to accurately test our creation.
The performance of our team was very good. We had a simple plan and it was something that we tested and it did well. I guess we should have tried to test it at the height we were suppose to drop it from and if there was enough protection over it. Testing different ways also would have helped for better planning.

Being more effective how?

The team could have been more effective if we would have done more thorough planning after we saw that our plan was not coming along as well as we had hoped for.. Should have had a couple of other ideas or alternative plans in case it didn't go well. Asking questions about plans that we thought of but did not know if it would be within guidelines. Being a little more open minded and thinking outside the box never hurt anyone, so we should have tried it. For next time happy planning and try to think of the unthinkable.

Hardship At Work:-(

Let us begin with what i do...I work for a cellular company :-Verizon Wireless. Everything is going well at work except for just recently we had our management team switched around (changed location) and the manager now at our location is putting his personal life out into the job environment. At first we all thought that it was a temporary thing, we were all wrong. The problem continued. He was having personal conversations at work throughout his shift. He was delegating his duties down to us, which in turn was taking our full attention off of selling to our customers.
As a team we all have come together to discuss what are some of the actions we should take... some have suggested to just bring up the matter to our district manager and let him take disciplinary actions. Others have suggested to just ignore his actions and let things continue until he changes his ways. I suggested that we should all write down what are issues are with his current actions or lack of actions, and demand a store meeting with him and his superior. This way it wont be a surprise to him how discontent we are with him and his lack of management attention. If this does not help the situation then we should take further actions and let his superior deal with it.

A question to all you readers:
What should we all do in order to correct this situation?
If we do the meeting and things don't change what type of actions should we all do?