Sunday, October 21, 2007

Skills Journal #3

After this last week I found that a lot of things have happened to both my Teamwork skills and my Time management skills. I found that my original plans around these skills would not work but after trying them and also just being around situations when I needed to use these skills more that I had a lot more things that I would have to do in order to truly improve these things.

To begin with I found that have a group wiki is something that really bothers me. I found again why I hate groups so much and why teamwork is something that I really lack. The main problem is that my group is very dysfunctional. We have one person who thinks that she should do everything herself and then two people who never even do any work. I found that in order for us to try and get anything done that I had to try and bring order. I tired many times to make people do work and try and share responsibilities but when it came down to it still nobody would listen. So as of right now I am a little lost about how to try and fix this problem. 

Time management was something that also kind of fell apart. I set down my plan to try and do work each night but I found that I just never did any of it. I would still put things off till the last minute and turn in work that I know could have been better. It was so bad that I was up all night until 11:57 writing an essay that was due at 11:59. I found that it is a lot harder to try and change this procrastinating problem of mine then I originally thought it would be. I think that I still have a lot more planning to do if I truly do want to try and improve myself at this skill.

Overall after first planing out how I would improve in these two areas I found that I still have a lot of problems that will need  a lot more planing to fix. I think that I need to think about these things a lot more before I actually do try and improve these skills.

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