My Pieces

Outline - I created the outline for our project and allowed constant access to it and gave full permission to change any of it.

Introduction - The introduction to our topic and to our group.

Global Impact - Our overall project was to compare education systems globally and I addressed the division that it can cause.

Struggles

My group severely struggled with our communication. They switched platforms early on and didn't tell me, which stopped communication for almost a month. Our communication finally started towards January, but even then it was extremely minimal. We had to turn in a proposal for the project, which my group members did help with (even though they changed the project while helping). I ended up making a schedule for our assignments hoping that we could at least get a small outline, we did not. I had to turn in an outline for Ms. Stone so I made one that was what I would've envisioned for the project. A little later I sent it to my group as a potential outline and said that I would do whatever they wanted and that they could change anything to fit their plan. Minimal response again. Eventually Ms. Stone stepped in and had me send a firm email, I am not used to being firm, that included her and Professor Schmidt which stated that I had finished my work and was ready to collaborate whenever they were ready to, no response.

What I learned

I learned to take accountability for my own work and to make others take accountability for theirs. I originally backed away and tried to see if anyone else wanted to take control and maybe just felt like I was overpowering them, but then we didn't speak for weeks so I don't think that was the problem. I learned that you can't force people to cooperate and that you can only do the best that you can.

I learned a lot about myself as a leader and about how I can't control how others feel.