This is in reference to our Explore the Environment exercise last week. It is drawn from all the groups’ feedback.

Helped

• Cooperation
• Motivation; shared goal
• Mutual respect
• Positive attitude
• Flexibility
• Building friendships
• Tolerance for ambiguity
• Awareness of task
• Make task manageable: triage
• Movement
• Diversity of perspectives
• Empathy
• Taking turns: allowing each person a voice [polychronic/monochronic: many or one people talking at once, which is culturally determined.

Hindered

• Oversensitivity
• Under- or over-assertiveness of group members
• Disorganization
• Large size of group
• Complexity of issue
• Oversensitivity to feedback from self and others
• Fatigue