Here I go again with group work

I was reading some others blogs and there is at least one other person in my group that is a bit uneasy with our final project. Communication has been great, but follow through, on the other hand, could use a little work. I feel this is in part my fault for not having the ppt completely done and put together. The original plan was for everyone to have the part done and emailed to everyone in the group a couple of sundays ago. This was only done by one person. There were two who werent at that particular meeting, but were diligent about getting their part out the following day. We were only waiting on one person to get the info in.

In our initial meeting I took it upon myself to do the ppt for the group and I told them that I would be able to get it done within a couple of days after we all agreed to get all the info in. (This was assuming that all the info would be in when we agreed) I thought I would be able to have my part done that wednesday at the absolute latest. Technically I could have, but it would have been missing one group members information. So, being that this group member said that she would get me the info asap. I waited. Well, im still waiting and its been about two weeks. I'm sry, but this is starting to drive me crazy!! I feel like im not doing my part to help the group out, yet at the same time, I dont want to give my group an incomplete presentation.

We are meeting tonight again, and I hope that everyone makes it. I need to get this resolved, at least for my own piece of mind.

Anger Test

I took it and scored a 4, mild to moderater anger. I'm typically one who goes with the flow and I dont let thing get to me very often. It seems to me that the test was more about agression or hostility than anger though. One can be angry without being hostile. Anyway, im calling it a night ...been sick all day :(

Phone convo 3

Today I had the opportunity to talk to Lynnette regarding our third phone project. This worked out quite well. She was the employee and I was the boss. She came to me wanting a raise in pay and plead her case as to why she deserved it. She argued her case and we came up with a mutual agreement in a very short amount of time. She stated all that she does for the company and requested a raise as well as more responsibility and after looking at the stipulations of what she was asking, it was determined that she could have the raise that was asked for upon certain contingencies. She will be put on a “probationary” period in the new position for 90 days. After which she will be evaluated. While she is in this probationary period she will be assessed on the merit of her work as well as having the prearranged work done that needs to be done. This entails finishing her degree as well as meeting the expectations that was put forth. If all works out to reasonable expectorations, she will have the promotion that she asked for.

Group Challenge

A challenge that I had tonight, while its still fresh in my head, is that I was unable to log onto the chat whit my group. I did everything I possibly could, but if u read my other post about Windows Vista you will know that I had some browser problems. Anyhow, after giving it my all to get on and realizing that the chat was starting and I sill was unable to get into the chat room I started e-mailing all my group partners. I did this quite a few times in hope that one of them would check their e-mail and see that I wasn’t just being a flake. So, as the minutes pass (I hate being late I even literally ran home from my kids open house to make it) my frustrations grew. No one was responding to my e-mail so the I have one of my group member’s yahoo messenger address and I try contacting her on there. I actually have tried contacting her on there a few times to no avail. By this time I’m fuming to say the least….I feel like throwing my computer out the window. I contacted It and get the issue resolved and a couple of my group members e-mail me back after they were done with the meeting. But this is what somewhat gets me. No one in my group was able to be gotten a hold of. Other than e-mail there really is no other way to contact those in my group. As a resolution to this problem, It would be nice for others to give out their instant messaging contact info it this happens again and be logged in to the program weather it be YIM, AOL or any other one that everyone agrees on. That way the lines of communication are still open and someone doesn’t get shut out somehow.

My group

My experience with my group has been challenging. Though I am working with many wonderful people we have had scheduling problems. We have had three different meetings via a chat room and we have yet to have a meeting where everyone makes it. This last one, the one that we had tonight, I was the one who was unable to make it. I had problems with my browser letting me log into the chat. I was e-mailing my group partners and even tried contacting a group member through and online instant messenger. I must say I was getting very frustrated. The previous meeting I also a bit frustrated. We all agreed to meet and only three of us showed up with no communication from the others who didn’t make it. I’m going to be frank here, I was livid. I missed going to the Zoo with my kids to make it to the meeting and for those who didn’t make it not to even say anything about not making it or even attempt to log on, I felt was a huge let down to the entire group. Each person in the group was to submit their part of the assignment that Sunday and only one person did. I still am waiting for one more person to get it to me. I am putting everyone’s work together in a ppt and I need to have it all or it won’t flow right. However, those who didn’t make it to the meeting contacted everyone after the meeting was over and got caught up to speed.

Our communication style, I believe, is very open and compromising. Negotiation between those in our group was very easy. People seemed to be very accommodating and understanding of others situations. No arguments occurred and people were very flexible with the needs of others. The emotional iq of my colleagues was somewhat undeterminable. There was really no conflict that arose that would bring about strong emotions.

Although this post was a bit more on the negative side, I am in a great group with wonderful ladies. I’m just getting a bit stressed not having all the info I need to put the pt together yet. I was planning on having this done two days ago, and as it stands I have a Blank power point presentation just waiting for me to throw some info on it. I’ll be starting on it tomorrow weather I have all the Info on it or not and hopefully when I do get the last piece of info I’ll be able to still make it flow.

Windows Vista and national University dont mix

I was supposed to be in an online chat with my group members tonight and to my dismay I was unable to log on. I kept getting html errors as well as different browsers errors. So, me thinking that im a computer nerd and know what I'm doing, when in fact im pretty clueless,, goes online and tried to figure out this problem. I thought it was just a matter of updating Java or something simple like that. So, i do that and nothing. Then I decide to see what I can find about windows Vista and Java. I find on the Sunsystem, or whoever it is who makes Java, site that there is a download specific to Windows Vista. YAY.....wrong! Well i download this and then end up getting some sort of other weird error. I do what no wanna be computer nerd does....I call tech support....ohhhh no. Anyways He has me download Firefox (a different browser) and tells me that that is what I probably will have to use because national university does not support Windows Vista yet. How that matters when it comes to Java script and web browsers is beyond me. So, for all of u who actually read this and get a computer with Vista....make sure to down load firefox too, cause you cant go into the chat rooms with explorer.

So tired!

Thats right. I've been so bust that I've been getting home from work and crashing. Been doing my readings at work, when the kids arent going crazy and my own children have had projects due this week for school so I have been a bit out of it myself. I have tons to say about my group project but I will write it out later. For the most part though, it has been going fairly well. There have been a few glitches, but nothing that cant be overcome. Well, more to come!