Em's Ever Evolving Erudition

1. Update me on your progress on your goals. What developments, new insights or observations do you have about the skills you are focusing on since your last journal post. 2. Respond to the following questions: In what ways can an understanding of personality type enhance our collaborative skills? What was your four letter result? Did this make sense to you? What new insights did you gain from completing the self-assessment and learning about the different personality types in relationship to your ability to work collaboratively with others? How might Susan Cain’s talk help us to think about personality type and collaboration? Include at least 2 citations or quotes in your response. 1.  I’m grateful for my goals when I’m in meetings lately. They have really elevated my observation of who is talking/sharing the most and who is not. It tends to be the same people at each meeting. One thing that I’ve noticed is that it is not that the quiet people do not share, it is tha...

1. Update me on your progress towards your goals. As you considered your goals this week, what new insights do you have? Are there any specific examples of situations where you consciously thought about or worked on some aspect of your goals? I have created a little “meeting journal” to help me with my goals. This is where I will keep my discussion diagram, brief notes on discussion, and data points on my behavior. This is as long as I won’t be the notetaker in the meetings. As this is rotated and I’ve already done it this year (it's a big group), I don’t think that will be an issue. I have only had one meeting since creating our goals as snow days have made an impact on the time we meet. I did a discussion diagram and my teammates were interested to see who talks the most. We reflected that some people look like they talk a lot but they are only interjecting a word or two as a bigger conversation is happening. We also reflected that some that look like they are not t...