Taking The Time Out to Say Thank You!

Over the course of these 8 weeks, I have met a group of intelligent, sweet, caring, and most of all supportive people. I am thankful to have gotten to know each and every one of you. I enjoyed reading your blogs and discussion postings, and I appreciate all of the positive replies I’ve received from each and every one of you all. I pray that my responses to your blogs or discussion posting were helpful. I wish you all the best in your endeavors, and I pray that you take what you have learned in this course with you wherever you go just like me because this class has truly improve my communication skills personally and professionally. Until the next time we meet! Live, Laugh, Love :-) 

The Adjourning Phase

I had a part time job working for Victoria Secrets and love the job and the people there. So, when it was time for us to depart because the store was closing, I had a hard time letting. The experience I had there at that store brought about a lot of friendships, and I still miss those ladies till this day. The adjourning phase allowed me to reflect on our accomplishments and failures as a group, and I have come to realized that I wouldn’t mind working with that group of people again. We were a high performance group, and yes it was hard to leave them because we worked well together. Although, we all had different opinions about how the store should be ran; we still established a norm with one another because we had a clear understanding of everyone's viewpoint. During this stage, group roles also solidify, and leader emerges (O’Hair and Wiemann, 2009). We all wanted the store to perform well, and that was our primary goal. So, we all worked closely to make sure that our store was ranked in the top 10 across the nation. When it was time for use to close the store down, we decided to go out and celebrate our friendship with one another. Although, the store was closing, we felt that our friendship with one another should continue outside of Victoria Secret, so we keep in touch. Some time, some of us get together to reflect on all the good days we had at Victoria Secret.

Once I complete my courses, I find it to be hard to keep in contact with my colleagues from my previous class unless they join me in my next class. I think it would be a good idea to stay in contact with some of my colleagues because they have provided me with a lot of insight, when it pertains to the early childhood education. I believe adjourning is an essential stage of teamwork because it allows people to reflect back, and decide whether or not if they want to continue working with the group they are involved with or move on to another group. I also believe that people should have the option to opt out of a group if it is not working out for them.

Reference

O’Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2009). Real communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s.