Week 2 Blog

Week 2 of class was pretty interesting. We continued to do work in groups and explore different aspects of grouping.

I actually really liked the Tuckman stages of development portion that we worked on Thursday, so I decided to look into it a little more and try to understand it fully. At first when we were learning about it My first thought was that Storming was absolutely a bad thing to have during the grouping phase and I thought to myself "is there any good that can come out of the storming phase" and I came to a little conclusion about it using the readings, my ideas and from Boundless

From my understanding based off the two readings the storming phase is a time where the team begins to formulate ideas. There is a constant fear of acceptance, rejection, and consideration that causes tension between members. And on top of this there are can be conflicts with roles, who is to lead? who is to do what? as the reading from class uses as an example, is there a reward system? Due to this there can be less motivation and groups can even fall apart during this. So how could this be possibly good for a group?

I believe that groups become stronger when they can over come a conflict like this or when they can sort out roles. After roles can be finalized and everyone understands what they need to do, the groups goals and functions a group will be stronger than ever. As long as the group can surpass this part of the process and continue together then the rest of the Tuckman stages are very simple to do. It just requires patience.

Heres to week 3, hoping to learn about something else interesting and continue to work with everyone.