Giovanna Neves blog 1

 

I learned so much from group 3’s presentation about ‘Group Leadership and Problem Solving’. It was so fascinating to hear everyone talk about it. What I really like from group 3’s presentation is how important it is to identify, define and analyze the problem. Usually, us as humans, we don’t always analyze the problem right away, and in this section of the presentation it taught me how I always have to analyze the problem. It’s important to understand the problems before solving them. It gives you a minute to think it over. By not thinking straight and having a solid foundation with problem solving you risk wasting resources and delaying solutions. And that causes more stressful situations to arise. And another thing I loved listening to in group 3’s presentation is when communication was discussed. And how valuable communication is to everything, including relationships, family, friends, in a job setting, everywhere really. Communication within a group is fantastic, because it improves with revision and practice. What this means exactly? Revising with others in your group is by listening carefully to how other people approach their revision can stretch your comprehension of the topics because everyone brings their own ways of understanding the topics. And ultimately deciding together so you don’t waste time on each other . It’s all agreement, connection , and teamwork. Good communication bonds the group even stronger and it improves stability as well, and I can’t stress enough how crucial it is in life. It’s the main key to any successful relationship or bond. 

Group 2’s presentation was very informative and fun to listen to, like all the presentations. I liked that group 2 mentioned how bad communication leads to poor outcomes and that is factual. That happens if you have poor communication strategies, and poor solutions will arrive. And what I loved learning from group 2’s presentation is that characteristics of healthy groups have strong and good ethical goals, and have productive norms. And how gangs were brought up and I thought that was cool to learn about and a great example of tying in unethical groups. Gangs are an example of an unhealthy unethical group that causes damage and danger. And an ethical group has honor and honesty. Another thing I found awesome to learn is that when there’s personality differences there needs to be good communication, of course. This not only expresses your ideas but by asking questions and listening to others around you, and giving feedback. People who belong to different cultures can sometimes have difficulty communicating with one another, but on the other hand, they abide by unique communication norms. This whole presentation by group 2 was very engaging and fun to listen to. Everybody did an awesome job by expressing themselves and talking about their topics, very valuable information for everyday life and gives us something to think about. 

My group was group 1 and it was amazing working with my group, we make a great team and I couldn’t be more proud of our presentation. What I loved and learned about my groups presentation is one of the topics I talked about: sexual orientation. This was a very important but sensitive to talk about because I have so much passion about this and I adore talking about it. People who have a sexual orientation other than heterosexual, unfortunately, faces death threats and physical threats just by being who they are. And you think that the generation and era we live in now, people would be more open-minded and showing respect and kindness towards LGBT+ members, but of course, there just has to be homophobic people and homophobia everywhere. And although there are laws that has respect and love towards LGBT+ members, that’s isn’t enough and more needs to be done. Hate crimes towards LGBT+ people is a daily thing and it has to stop once and for all. At the end of the day, we all bleed blood no matter what our sexual orientation is or how different we are. We’re all human and respect is always earned. And being gay doesn’t affect your life , if you’re heterosexual, because it’s their life and not yours , if anything you should love and respect that person because they’re not doing any harm towards you. And as someone who’s part of the LGBT+ I have my struggles with people of not being accepting and them denying my sexuality. Love is love and always will be! The dominant American culture has always valued itself with privileged heterosexuality, other sexualities were considered “forbidden and horrid”. Masculinity and femininity was intriguing to learn, I knew this already but it was so nice to hear it and learn it again by my group. In masculinity a man is expected to be dominant and women are to be nurturing and caring. And countries that have a high masculine culture are: Mexico, Italy, and Japan. And something new that I learned myself in my group’s presentation is power distance. Which is the extent to which members of a culture accept and expect all that power will be equally or unequally shared. For example, in high power distance cultures power that is not equally distributed is accepted by both high and low power holders. In low power distance cultures, members prefer to be more equally shared. And I found this whole topic fascinating because I never learned that before in my life , and I’m happy that I did. 

In conclusion, all the groups presented were all amazing and everything looked nice and I learned so much! All the presentations were so informative and interesting. And I absorbed everything like a sponge. Everyone talked brilliantly and I can tell so much good teamwork was put into group 3 and 2’s presentation, and of course, my group as well. We all worked really great together and I enjoyed making my topics fun and immersive for the whole class. My creativity for choosing the images was running wild, naturally. Everything that was talked about was all facts and it gives us an insight to how our whirls is and how it operates. How cultures collide with one another and how we communicate with people ame fo special bonds that will last a lifetime, despite our differences.