Thank You!

I would like to say thank you to all my collages for all the wonderful stories and information that you have shared through out this course.

I would also like to wish you all the best of luck in your careers and in your future classes.

Five Stages of Team Development

I believe that high performing group are the hardest to leave because they are very well organized and they will get the work or project done on time. I have always enjoyed being part of a group with the clearest established norms because everyone will know what their part is and they will be able to work as a team.

I haven't worked on projects in a lot of  group environments so for me I think that when it comes to ending or closing a project I would like to see everyone in the group tell each other great job and how they felt working with each other.

Conflict Resolution Skills

I have dealt with conflict through out my years in the Early Childhood field with other teachers and I have always had to fight and stand my ground when it came to other professionals who wanted to bring me down and hurt me. A couple of years ago I was working at a daycare/preschool and the other teacher that I worked with was rude and mean to me every chance she got. She would talk bad about me to the parents and was not a team player. I was very tired of her attitude towards me and when I would confront her about it she would just walk away and tell me that she didn't care what I thought. So after about 8 months I decided to quit the job and go somewhere else. I would have stayed if the management team would have worked with me but I decided that if I wanted to be happy to go to work everyday I would have to make the change myself.

I have learned that there will always be people who think that they are better than you and that you are always wrong and that they are always right, but that is not true and I don't bother with those people anymore. If you let them upset you than you are giving them what they want and they win. If you ignore them and don't let them change you to what they want, then and only then will you win and they lose.