Leadership was also an issue with this project. At the very least, our meetings might have been more efficiently and effectively conducted had their been a group facilitator for each meeting. The facilitator would have ensured that each member had a turn to speak, and worked to help clarify any questions that others would have about any person's ideas. Furthermore, a group facilitator would have also ensured that everyone's ideas were acknowledged by others (even if they weren't shared by others), and encouraged less vocal members to voice their views. Moreover, a facilitator would have helped our discussions stay focused, mitigate too much group discord, and work towards reaching a consensus. Clearly, our meetings were disorganized, and having a facilitator to set the agenda for each meeting would have been beneficial. To further encourage more participation by all members, switching facilitators each meeting might have been a good idea. This would have been a good reinforcement for ensuring that everyone played an active role in helping the group come to a consensus, as well as giving them the opportunity to lead.
Monday, March 16, 2009
wetpaint, leadership issues
In addition to what has already been said, I think we could have been much better organized with the wetpaint site. We didn't have a clear division of labour when it came to specific areas of the site, and assigning different areas of responsibility might have encouraged more active participatory behavior. I don't feel everyone was equally active with the wetpaint site, and this also contributed to the difficulties we had as a team. For example, were all the management style articles posted on the site, being read, if not browsed through, by each group member? Was everyone's work on the site read before each meeting by the other members to help better prepare and formulate questions for group discussion?
Saturday, March 14, 2009
FEEDBACK
What difficulties we faced in the project?
1. The technical problem: Like Msn account set up, internet connection.
In the first meeting with France, we waited for a France member for 30 minutes, because he had to go to Macdonald’s for the internet and apply a new msn account. Also during our meeting, some people log off the meetings because the internet connection. However, we have to tell the members our discussion again when they came back. It is a problem that procrastinates out meeting time.
2. Time problem: Like time difference and set proper meeting time that everyone can join. I think the time difference is not a big problem. We arranged our meeting in 1PM-American time, 10PM-France time. It is the available time for both sides. However, it is so hard that everyone can join the meeting. I remember in once meeting, there was only one France member join the meeting. Before the meeting, we only received one France member’s email said that he can’t join. We didn’t ask the reason why they didn’t join the meeting. We just asked the only one France member where are they? Can you help us to call them? In my memory, they seem had a midterm in that time. This is maybe the reason why they didn’t show up. They can tell us before the meeting time, we can make some changes, but not just waste time to wait other that didn’t show up.
3. Organization problem: I think in France team, there is no leader that we can really talk to them. Every time when we made decisions and want somebody to tell everyone in France team, we have nobody can choose. We just use Email and hope they will receive the email. It is a big problem that they don’t have a leader in the France team. It makes things more difficult.
What did I learn from the project?
1. Communication: Everything starts at communication. Without communication, we can’t finish the project. Good communication can help the team works well and let everyone what our next steps and goals are. Communication is a way to negotiation. Negotiation plays an important role in the teamwork.
2. Organization: A company want success must have good organization. It works in a team project. In the project, I think our American team has a good organization. But in France side, I don’t know how they work in their organization. If both sides have good organizations, it can help the project work well and success.
How can we do better in the project?
1. Good organization.
2. Good negotiation
3. Good interaction
4. Everyone is responsibility
5. Everyone is efficient and effective.
ARNOLD HONG
1. The technical problem: Like Msn account set up, internet connection.
In the first meeting with France, we waited for a France member for 30 minutes, because he had to go to Macdonald’s for the internet and apply a new msn account. Also during our meeting, some people log off the meetings because the internet connection. However, we have to tell the members our discussion again when they came back. It is a problem that procrastinates out meeting time.
2. Time problem: Like time difference and set proper meeting time that everyone can join. I think the time difference is not a big problem. We arranged our meeting in 1PM-American time, 10PM-France time. It is the available time for both sides. However, it is so hard that everyone can join the meeting. I remember in once meeting, there was only one France member join the meeting. Before the meeting, we only received one France member’s email said that he can’t join. We didn’t ask the reason why they didn’t join the meeting. We just asked the only one France member where are they? Can you help us to call them? In my memory, they seem had a midterm in that time. This is maybe the reason why they didn’t show up. They can tell us before the meeting time, we can make some changes, but not just waste time to wait other that didn’t show up.
3. Organization problem: I think in France team, there is no leader that we can really talk to them. Every time when we made decisions and want somebody to tell everyone in France team, we have nobody can choose. We just use Email and hope they will receive the email. It is a big problem that they don’t have a leader in the France team. It makes things more difficult.
What did I learn from the project?
1. Communication: Everything starts at communication. Without communication, we can’t finish the project. Good communication can help the team works well and let everyone what our next steps and goals are. Communication is a way to negotiation. Negotiation plays an important role in the teamwork.
2. Organization: A company want success must have good organization. It works in a team project. In the project, I think our American team has a good organization. But in France side, I don’t know how they work in their organization. If both sides have good organizations, it can help the project work well and success.
How can we do better in the project?
1. Good organization.
2. Good negotiation
3. Good interaction
4. Everyone is responsibility
5. Everyone is efficient and effective.
ARNOLD HONG
Ｍy feedback
The process
First, I thought it might not be so difficult to complete this project, because I thought we could just separate the project into many parts and then distribute the jobs to each one. That’s simple and easy. But after two times of discussions, I realized that was totally different as what I thought.
In our first discussion, it was so wasting time and only got a little conclusion. It was so inefficiency. And we also decided the tasks everyone should do before next meeting.
And in our second discussion, I was surprised because only one of them showed up without any notices. And the task we should do during the first meeting and second meeting had been ignored. And after a long time discussion, we got another conclusion again, and that was everyone should create a story and potential problem the manager will face and also a solution for her before next week’s meeting. And we would combine all of them and finish it.
But in the last meeting I was so surprised that they didn’t do the story and Lili wanted to do the story online at that time. I was so upset because I thought we could just combine everyone’s story at that time and finish our project. And I think the works what we had done were meaningless because we redistributed tasks again and the deadline was very close.
Finally, we have our project done in time.
The problems we faced
I think the culture difference is the biggest problem because sometimes I thought we have consensus with them but in the end I found that they didn’t think of the way I think.
And I think compare Asian people with western people. I realize that if you give Asian people a task with vague definition or no detail description, they would still definitely give you some outcome. But to western people, I think if you don’t give them very clearly about what they have to do, they wouldn’t do it.
And in my opinion, if someone has some ideas about how to do our project or how to distribute our project I would just follow it and I would not have any opinions about it. But I think this doesn’t work in American.
And I think the reason why we always take so long in discussion is because they like to insist their own opinions. I think it is hard for western to change their mind to agree with the decision different from them. And although sometimes I might not want to agree with them, I will finally accept with them to finish our discussion more quickly.
What I have learned
Frankly speaking, I felt very upset and sometimes very angry during the process of this class.
But I think I learned to express my opinions and feelings to others, and it is not quiet usual in Asia. And I also learned that culture different really matters in many ways. And how to adapt culture difference and accept it is a big issue for me.
Therefore, this class really influences me a lot, and makes me think things in different ways. And also notice me that don’t be so arrogant because I always think my opinion is always right. And I really feel this is a very unique experience to me.
First, I thought it might not be so difficult to complete this project, because I thought we could just separate the project into many parts and then distribute the jobs to each one. That’s simple and easy. But after two times of discussions, I realized that was totally different as what I thought.
In our first discussion, it was so wasting time and only got a little conclusion. It was so inefficiency. And we also decided the tasks everyone should do before next meeting.
And in our second discussion, I was surprised because only one of them showed up without any notices. And the task we should do during the first meeting and second meeting had been ignored. And after a long time discussion, we got another conclusion again, and that was everyone should create a story and potential problem the manager will face and also a solution for her before next week’s meeting. And we would combine all of them and finish it.
But in the last meeting I was so surprised that they didn’t do the story and Lili wanted to do the story online at that time. I was so upset because I thought we could just combine everyone’s story at that time and finish our project. And I think the works what we had done were meaningless because we redistributed tasks again and the deadline was very close.
Finally, we have our project done in time.
The problems we faced
I think the culture difference is the biggest problem because sometimes I thought we have consensus with them but in the end I found that they didn’t think of the way I think.
And I think compare Asian people with western people. I realize that if you give Asian people a task with vague definition or no detail description, they would still definitely give you some outcome. But to western people, I think if you don’t give them very clearly about what they have to do, they wouldn’t do it.
And in my opinion, if someone has some ideas about how to do our project or how to distribute our project I would just follow it and I would not have any opinions about it. But I think this doesn’t work in American.
And I think the reason why we always take so long in discussion is because they like to insist their own opinions. I think it is hard for western to change their mind to agree with the decision different from them. And although sometimes I might not want to agree with them, I will finally accept with them to finish our discussion more quickly.
What I have learned
Frankly speaking, I felt very upset and sometimes very angry during the process of this class.
But I think I learned to express my opinions and feelings to others, and it is not quiet usual in Asia. And I also learned that culture different really matters in many ways. And how to adapt culture difference and accept it is a big issue for me.
Therefore, this class really influences me a lot, and makes me think things in different ways. And also notice me that don’t be so arrogant because I always think my opinion is always right. And I really feel this is a very unique experience to me.
Thank you~
The first thing I want to say is thank you everyone's cooperation. Without everyone's help, the wetpaint project can not success! I think we have a big success on wetpaint. We have to overcome many difficulties such as the time differences, culture differences, variety personal opinions, and such else. Then we made the outline conculsion about "outsourced". Collected the useful informations and combined in the wetpaint. Although we didn't like other groups finished the wetpaint project so fast, we completed the wetpaint project almost in the last minute. However, we still achieve a big success. We had communication between each other, and we also had debates with each other, But in the really world, it is just like what we did now. Anyway, the last thing I want to say is thank you everyone. It is very nice to meet you in my MBA's life. Thank you. Arnold Hong
Friday, March 13, 2009
Difficulty in accessing blog.
Hello guys,
in class today, Anise and the Prof. said they couldn't get in the blog so I'm going to try to add them again.
One only has to use his/her full email to have acess.
Thanks,
Ettie
in class today, Anise and the Prof. said they couldn't get in the blog so I'm going to try to add them again.
One only has to use his/her full email to have acess.
Thanks,
Ettie
THANK YOU ALL............
Hello All,
its been nice working with the dungguli team, your efforts brought about the success of this team/project.
Nice work.
Ettie
its been nice working with the dungguli team, your efforts brought about the success of this team/project.
Nice work.
Ettie
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
how to invite people?
Can somebody tell me how to invite people? We need to invite our professors in this blog and some members are still not in the blog. Can someone tell me how to invite people in this blog. Thank you for helping~~~ Arnold Hong
Monday, March 9, 2009
Thanks
Hello, guys,
We did our best to finish this project. We had so much difficulity in communicating with each other oversea. It was challenging for us to make the group project. However, I am very satisfied with the content of the project. Especially, I am surprised at everyone's effort because our wetpaint has totally changed comparing with that in last week.
Regaridng the content of the project, I admit that our sources for the project is some bias or involves too much westerner's perspective. I tried to collect some articles which have less bias. However, it is so hard to find such articles. Accepting such bias information without critisizing is not good for "intellectual" students. Rather, we should think why such bias sources are flooded on the internet and academia. In other words, if we examine the bias more closely, we would understand the cultural differences. Anyway, thank you so much all. I hope we can keep in touch after the project. If you have a chance to come to Japan or California, please let me know.
Hogs (Kohei)
We did our best to finish this project. We had so much difficulity in communicating with each other oversea. It was challenging for us to make the group project. However, I am very satisfied with the content of the project. Especially, I am surprised at everyone's effort because our wetpaint has totally changed comparing with that in last week.
Regaridng the content of the project, I admit that our sources for the project is some bias or involves too much westerner's perspective. I tried to collect some articles which have less bias. However, it is so hard to find such articles. Accepting such bias information without critisizing is not good for "intellectual" students. Rather, we should think why such bias sources are flooded on the internet and academia. In other words, if we examine the bias more closely, we would understand the cultural differences. Anyway, thank you so much all. I hope we can keep in touch after the project. If you have a chance to come to Japan or California, please let me know.
Hogs (Kohei)
Ni hao ! :-)
It's cool what you all have done. I prefer an informal way to write this message. At first, I saw our group inefficient. We were discussing and trying to solve some unimportant things (like if we should chose a female or a male, which industry, research on UK management style ...). On the meeting, we talked too vaguely. I see the US team working quite the same method as the French students that I met when I studied in French University.
However, at the end, everything is done quite perfectly. Impressive !!! I'm satisfied with the job you did.
On my side, I think I interacted not much with other members (US or French) so I couldn't counter cultural differences.
That's all my personal point of view (perhaps correct or incorrect). I hope everyone is happy with what the group have done.
Wish you all successes in studying !
Linh DANG QUANG,
French ESG School
It's cool what you all have done. I prefer an informal way to write this message. At first, I saw our group inefficient. We were discussing and trying to solve some unimportant things (like if we should chose a female or a male, which industry, research on UK management style ...). On the meeting, we talked too vaguely. I see the US team working quite the same method as the French students that I met when I studied in French University.
However, at the end, everything is done quite perfectly. Impressive !!! I'm satisfied with the job you did.
On my side, I think I interacted not much with other members (US or French) so I couldn't counter cultural differences.
That's all my personal point of view (perhaps correct or incorrect). I hope everyone is happy with what the group have done.
Wish you all successes in studying !
Linh DANG QUANG,
French ESG School
Thanks, all!
Hello,everyone:
Thank you very much for every members input , it's very nice for work with you!
As a french team member , we learn a lot from the US members, we solve the problem in the
different way, but we can achieve our agreement quickly and without conflict .
And understand the culture difference . Every one work hard , I think we did a great job.
Hope we continue contact with each other like friends , and also hope we
have more opportunity for work together.
the experience
Like Cheryl, I am also happy we had this opportunity to work with students on the opposite side of the globe. This was an experience that I enjoyed, despite the frustrations and the challenges that we faced. Besides the obvious time and distance factor, I think one of the biggest challenges was developing rapport with one another, especially considering the time constraints we were working under. While we had enough time to do the model itself, lamenting back to my experiences, it would have been beneficial to have more opportunities for open discussion about topics not related to the actual assignment. I am grateful for the times I had to talk with Anisa, Etie and Lili outside of the group meetings. It was wonderful connecting with them and discussing their own interests and personal stories, however, I would have liked to have had more time to do this. Perhaps setting up the wetpaint site earlier in the quarter, would have been better.
As a group, I think we worked well under the conditions, however, I felt we sometimes spent too much time coming to a consensus about things which shouldn't have been as time consuming. Perhaps our efforts were hampered by the time and distance factor, or perhaps we weren't as organized as well as we could have been. Additionally, there was some confusion at times about specific project guidelines, and this hindered our progress. Also, it was overwhelming meeting together online with multiple people - sometimes it felt everyone was talking at once, and member's comments or contributions to the chat weren't always acknowledged. Thus, I learned the importance of recognizing everyone's contributions. While this seems elementary, I feel that its important for developing rapport and realizing synergy within a group.
Despite all the challenges, I feel that we did as well as we could, and I am extremely happy to have been given the opportunity to participate in a project like this! Thank you!
As a group, I think we worked well under the conditions, however, I felt we sometimes spent too much time coming to a consensus about things which shouldn't have been as time consuming. Perhaps our efforts were hampered by the time and distance factor, or perhaps we weren't as organized as well as we could have been. Additionally, there was some confusion at times about specific project guidelines, and this hindered our progress. Also, it was overwhelming meeting together online with multiple people - sometimes it felt everyone was talking at once, and member's comments or contributions to the chat weren't always acknowledged. Thus, I learned the importance of recognizing everyone's contributions. While this seems elementary, I feel that its important for developing rapport and realizing synergy within a group.
Despite all the challenges, I feel that we did as well as we could, and I am extremely happy to have been given the opportunity to participate in a project like this! Thank you!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
all the meeting history
Here are all the meeting history we have http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/rPxp8gkk1lGzg9ZViX8M3w%3D%3D233022 2009/03/04 http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/LPtbIE4om193Ah72H%2BbrBg%3D%3D67978 2009/02/25 http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/JqmLYqDWkXkYokRZsG5gAQ%3D%3D228864 2009/02/19
Meeting History - 2009/03/04
This is the conversation history in 2009/03/04 . Every one should read it . Enjoy! http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/rPxp8gkk1lGzg9ZViX8M3w%3D%3D233022
my feedback
I am so glad to have this opportunity to make a project with you guys. And I think it is a very cool experience because I never done this before. I really learn alot from this class, and notice that the culture difference really is a very important issue between people from different country. Because this is the first time I go broad to study, I never think the culture difference will bother untill this class. And the things that I think is very usual is now seens to be unusual to so many people. Not only the different thoughts and values between the france group everytime dealing with the project but also have many different opinions with my own group members. I was so shock about that, and know how stupid I am.
In conclude, I am very glad to meet you guys and make friends with you.
In conclude, I am very glad to meet you guys and make friends with you.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Hi everyone. Lili, thanks for setting this up. There are many things we can discuss, some of which I have mentioned in the meeting synopsis section on wetpaint. However, to reiterate some of the important ones, I think we should discuss the issues surrounding being a parent and an expatriate. This would obviously complicate matters greatly, because the child must also integrate into the new surroundings and culture. Things to consider: might it be easier for the child, who is still in his/her growth years (and is very impressionable) to integrate into the new surroundings than his/her adult parent, who has already developed and set his/her ways? Also, we should discuss repatriation. What types of issues will the expat face when she goes back to the U.K.? How does she handle changes at her employer, and how is she received, especially by new employees which weren't there when she left? Will her original surroundings be so foreign to her, that she will have a tough time reintegrating herself? Will there be a certain amount of reverse culture shock? How does she handle this?
hi,all
HI,ALL:
This is our blog , please add the new idea for us.
The dead line for it is Mar . 11th.
We can talk about the challenge of team work, how we achieve the objective.
What's the difficulty, and so on.
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