Tuesday 10th Jan 2012

ABBEE on the ROAD

Today, small production teams of 3 were established in order to begin a new assignment for the Creativity and Concept module.

Firstly, we were asked to identify what we as individuals consider to be skills which make a stong and successful team, similar to the Lego Serious Play exercise in semester I

I completed a short personal profile based questionairre about team-working skills, which I was directed to by my tutor.  The link for this, should you wish to complete it yourself, is:


http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/teamwork.htm


Upon receiving the results, I found that I had scored highly as an ENCOURAGER and COMPROMISER (the following definitions are supplied by the University of Kent)

ENCOURAGER

Energises groups when motivation is low through humour or being enthusiastic. They are positive individuals who support and praise other group members. Don't like sitting around. They like to move things along by suggesting ideas, clarifying the ideas of others and confronting problems. They may use humour to break tensions in the group.

COMPROMISER

Tries to maintain harmony among the team members. They are sociable, interested in others and will introducing people, draw them out and make them feel comfortable. They may be willing to change their own views to get a group decision. They works well with different people and can be depended on to promote a positive atmosphere, helping the team to gel. They pull people and tasks together developing rapport. They are tolerant individuals and good listeners who will listen carefully to the views of other group members. They are good judges of people, diplomatic and sensitive to the feelings of others and not seen as a threat. Able to recognise and resolve differences of opinion and the the development of conflict, they enable "difficult" team-members to contribute positively.

Before conducting our first production meeting, we chose a team name which we decided would be an acronym for AWESOME, the three members' surnames initials (BBE) and EXHIBITIONS. 

ABBEE was born...


Our latest assignment is to design an exhibition for the new MUSEUM OF LIVERPOOL  We will have one specific user group which will be the target audience for the exhibition and it is our task to conceptualise and present this idea for 15 minutes to a panel.  We had shortlisted 15 user groups for a pre-determined list.  Teams were randomly selected and were given priority choice in number order (numbers drawn from a hat).  Our team chose the user group A BAND.  WOO-HOO!  I think I'm gonna have some fun with this one :)


After a brief production meeting, we have discussed some roles and a few very early ideas.  I have also suggested that we should (either individually or as a group) visit the museum over the next week.  I asked for everyone's mobile number so we could keep in touch and we all agreed to email each other with any ideas so we could brainstorm during the next session.