Personal Narrative: My Team Analysis

My team members were Zach, Libby, and Eric. When we were first planning our structure, we had to be very patient. Everyone had different ideas on what we should make for our structure, so we had to listen to everyone's ideas and hear what they had to say. It was a little hard at times because sometimes people were interrupting others when they were trying to explain their idea, which made it take ever longer. Even though they might have been interrupting them with something that could add on to their idea, or even if they were just saying they liked the idea, it still made the process take longer. We also had to compromise. Everyone had different ideas, and they all were great. We then had to figure out a way to combine all our ideas into one structure, which we successfully did. Since we combined them, it made the structure even bigger and better.

The instructions seemed to have skipped a step. We had to use trial and error so we could figure out how to catch up to the steps that made sense. It was hard, but we believe that we eventually got there. The final structure that we were assigned to rebuild was very unstable. We had to use teamwork to build it and hold it at the same time so it did not fall apart completely. It ended up falling apart anyway.
Written communication was used when we were writing our instructions. We had to explain how to build the structure through writing, which was harder than we expected. For example, when you are explaining something verbally, the person you are talking to can say if they understand or not. In written communication, this does not happen. Verbal communication was used a lot. We needed to communicate with our teammates in order to build what we needed to build. If we didn’t, people would be doing all sorts of things that are not