For me it is hardest to say
good-bye to high-performing groups!
Those groups that “just worked”.
Although we didn’t always agree, we did respect each other’s opinions
and everyone handled discussions and disagreements with maturity and professionalism. We had gotten past the awkward “forming”
stage and figured out who would work best in which role and we were good at
it. When clearly established norms are
set, it is easier for members to be able to “see the value in the differences
on the team” (Abudi, 2010). I
personally, need to work with groups who have clearly established norms and haven’t
wasted a large amount of time in the forming stage either. I like to get to know the members and get to
working on the task at hand, rather than spending too long just trying to
figure things out and everyone trying to see who is worthy of what spot!
Closing
rituals that seem to work for my grouping situations is that we talk about how
things went in our grouping. I like to
discuss things that we thought went well and definitely things that were
disastrous. Of course, it doesn’t always
happen, but I would really like to have the opportunity to do so if I had my
way each time. Saying good-bye is
difficult in most situations when you are working with an awesome group of
people!
As
far as my colleagues at Walden University, I think that saying good-bye won’t
be nearly as difficult as if it were in a “face-to face” classroom. I think that groupings are very different
when you are in groups through an online classroom. I honestly haven’t been in a situation where
I feel that it is going to be difficult to say good-bye to anyone. Not to say that I haven’t learned a great
deal, gotten great feedback and ideas from fabulous colleagues here, I just don’t
feel that saying good-bye will be hard?
