Week 6 Collaboration

Blog Exercise

Trustworthy and ethical behaviour in collaboration may relate to:

• acknowledging discomfort or anger

• being prepared to fully participate

• communicating in an open way

• honesty

• honouring commitments

• sensitivity to social, cultural, personal situations and dynamics

• showing respect

• understanding of the consequences of actions

Add 2 items to the list above - then SORT the 10 items into 2 groups.

• being open minded

• not bias towards individuals

1. Essential

• being prepared to fully participate

• honesty

• honouring commitments

• sensitivity to social, cultural, personal situations and dynamics

• communicating in an open way

• being open minded

• showing respect

Example of honesty: Group had to vote and evaluate peoples branding designs. We had to be honest about what score to give to benefit the group as a whole for the idea.

2. Secondary (give at least one example for each group)

• acknowledging discomfort or anger

• not bias towards individuals

• understanding of the consequences of actions

Example of bias towards individuals: One time while working in a group for ideas of a fundraiser there were some girls in the group that were very close and "cliquey" and pretty much anyone that gave ideas were ignored or their ideas rejected by those girls (which made the majority of the group) so then we felt useless and segregated in the group.

Group Exercise

1.Would you volunteer your money - that is, take risk?

Yes, for an exercise or demonstration

2. How did you feel?

Curious and intrigued

3. Did you feel a little sheepish?

Only for the fact i didn't have any money notes on me

4. What about when the ante was upped to ten dollars?

More curiosity

5. Twenty?

think people would start to wonder if they would get it back.

6. Did you think the volunteers were foolish?

No, there was no reason to.

Group Exercise 

PART 2: Eye Contact -  At first I felt very uncomfortable because I was paired up with Warwick and found it hard to maintain eye contact because I've always been told eyes are the doors to the soul. So when letting someone stare into my eyes (especially a male) and hold their stare I felt almost naked and feared they would be able to see something that I hide in myself. Then after a while i realized he could only see what is on the surface like me and was able to relax and just focus on my breathing instead.

PART 3: Eye Contact with Touch - This exercise didn't bother me much because ... actually i don't really know why i was comfortable just holding hands with some people and staring in their eyes, i just didn't feel awkward.

PART 4: Proximity – comfortable / closer / further - This exercise only changed my emotions when we were really close. I started thinking paranoid thoughts like, do i smell? am i close enough they can smell my breath... and is my breath bad?? Then when were were asked to set further back was like a sigh of relief  that we didn't stay close to each other as long as i expected.

Exercise Analysis

ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR

 - For the first exercise i would assume people would hand up their money without hesitation because it is just a contribution to a team exercise and i would assume that everyone in the group would be honest enough to hand back your money. These assumptions come from the basic morals I was raised with and i think that society expects from one another.

- The second exercise felt like it went against what we are taught to be ethical behaviour. You always here "Dont stare" or "people need personal space". So when this exercise throws those things out the window you feel awkward and people begin to giggle and try and make a  joke of the situation to counter that weirdness.

TRUST

- I have always been told I am too trusting so when it comes to contributing to something without any reservation of the final outcome it seems normal to me to watch my money being handed around. Even though it was only a dollar, if i had the larger amounts i would have still offered them up. the exercise however showed me that i had trust in the people in my group because i just knew that what ever the aim of the exercise that the people would return my money.

- Second exercise demonstrated that lack of trust within our group to a certain extend. I think there are several layers to trust and one is personal space and connection. By all the people in the group giggling and moving it showed that they are not comfortable to be around one another in close proximity and remain calm. 

"That's all I have to say about that. " Forest Gump...