I’ll be honest doing a reflection on a team charter seems a bit odd for me, considering it’s a fairly straightforward process that involves adding in personal comments without seeking opinions from other members (as far as our personal inputs into the assignment). That being said, I am having to write this before the submission of the assignment as I live in England and my day is already over. I will make comments though on the following questions:
1. What behaviors seemed to help your team successfully complete its task?
One of our members quickly got the ball rolling and submitted her portion of the assignment. This is what motivated me to do the same and to upload my end. A third member has been able to successfully communicate with the team and mentioned working on his end as I write up this post. The fourth member is nowhere to be seen. I sent a message through canvas a few days ago as a reminder that the assignment needed to be completed, however if this person doesn’t show we simply need to work around it. Nothing else we can do.
2. What factors inhibited decision-making or problem-solving?
Not knowing how to communicate with the missing member outside of canvas makes it difficult to support them in their academic success. In addition, seeing as I’m in a different time zone eliminates my ability to be a part of the decision-making process at the very end of the week. However as long as I keep my commitments, I have trust in my other two team members to do what is needed to be done.
3. How much time was spent on decision-making and problem-solving?
One member quickly put up the deadline of 7pm Sunday, which I thought was completely reasonable. A couple reminder messages/emails were also sent out to ensure members upload their portion of the assignment.
4. How was information shared among team members?
Group discussion board, canvas messages, and personal emails (to all but one member, as we don’t know her email).
5. How did issues of authority or power affect the team?
There weren’t any issues of authority. People seem to know what needed to get done and by what time.
6. How did collaboration and competition influence the outcome?
Sending out reminder messages helped establish better communication between members and to get updates on statuses. I wouldn’t really say there was much competition.
7. Did team members make process interventions?
One member requested we use personal emails instead of canvas for privacy and security reasons. That was pretty much the only process change that was done. There's not much we can do for the missing member, but to assume they are no longer part of the team and to continue with the assignment.
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