Week 3

This week was a tough one, group dynamic wise. It definitely challenged me to work on my communicating skills and flexibility. I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing, because often in the work place you will be forced to work around certain issues, but it certainly wasn't much fun. This was the week that we were supposed to finish the edits on our storefront proposal, so that it would be ready to be sent off to the bank for loan approval. Unfortunately, this didn't go quite as well as planned. Most of us spent the first day or so working on minor edits to the first three parts of the proposal, while two others worked on the last two parts. I emailed the group member who was making the phone call with a list of things to ask salon managers, that we wouldn't be able to figure out on our own. On Wednesday, no one but me showed up to class, which was pretty frustrating, but I was okay with it because one group member was making relevant phone calls, two members had been doing lots of work all along, and the last group member was sick. On Thursday, the group member who was making the phone calls the day before was missing yet again, but I figured it would be alright because I could now finish the fourth part of the proposal since she had spoken to several salon managers and employees. Unfortunately, when I went on our shared documents folder, I didn't find any edits made. The issue with this was that I was unable to move forward on part four, and both parts five and six rely completely on part four in oder to be accurate. Because the final three parts of the proposal were the only things left to be edited, there was nothing we could do in class on Thursday, so that whole class period went to waste. We don't have class on Friday, so I emailed the group member in charge of phone calls and ask to make a meeting before the end of the week to go over what had happened.

I met with her after school yesterday for an hour and a half, and it turned out that she had made a copy of the document, taken notes from her phone conversations there, and forgotten to share the document with the rest of the group. This is an easy mistake to make, but it's still very frustrating because we missed the deadline, and I now have to spend time this weekend finishing part four. I have to finish part four before the end of the day today so that the group members in charge of parts five and six can accurately finish the rest of the proposal before Monday. I understand that it was just a small mistake, I just wish it hadn't have happened, so that we could have finished on time.

Bracelet update: We will be printing and hanging flyers on our first day back, but I made both a Facebook page and email account for the group, and member of the senior as well as freshmen class will be invited to "like" the Facebook page (meaning they will see all updates posted by us) over winter break.

Thanks for reading,
Zank