1. Provide a SPECIFIC example of when you or a member of your group struggled to communicate effectively, with empathy, or appropriately. Make sure to include:
a. What led to that situation of miscommunication
b. How you felt when the miscommunication happened
c. How that miscommunication should have been handled instead

We struggled with telling each other what to do. Some people were just doing nothing while other people were doing all the work. This was because there wasn’t much to do because the only thing there was to do was to saw the bolts because they were stripped and we couldn’t put on the nuts. We should have taken more frequent turns to saw the bolt instead of people just sitting there doing nothing.

This is me putting on the nuts on a carriage bolt

2. Explain how poor communication let your team down. Make sure to include:
a. What was your team goal
b. What did you achieve in comparison to your team goal.

It let us down because when people were doing nothing the got quite loud and disrupted everyone else. Our goal was to finish the top bottom and side plates but we can’t do that if half of the group is doing nothing. We only unstripped one of the carriage bolts and got not much else done.

3. Describe one positive example of communication you witnessed/did yesterday during class. Make sure to include:
a. What was the situation
b. How did it feel different
c. What the outcome of that communication was

For the first part of the class we were doing good, everyone had something to do and no one was arguing. It felt different because no one was arguing and it felt like we were actually working as a team, but the second half we were just yelling at each other.