Blog 8

Blog 8

1. Describe your motivation in each of these areas: school, personal goals, social, and family.
Motivation for school:
-My motivation for
-school work
     - Good Grades
     - I'll have a better future
     - It's expected of me
-Personal Goals
     -Wanting to be a better person is my main motivation for working on my personal goals
-social
     -My motivation in my social life is having friends and meeting new people.
-family
     -My motivation in my family life is really easy. My siblings are awesome! Therefore I want to help them.
2. How can you motivate others as a leader in the following areas: school, work, family, or social?
-Family
Teach them that:
     -Family comes first, nobody should come ahead of family
     -Understand where the drama is coming from and address it and talk about it
     -Be awesome!

3. Explain the motivation style of your assigned leader for Monday's lab. 

The motivation style of my assigned leader: Malcom X is:
-Uniting against one oppressive cause such as white racism
-Being the best way to get an issue across
-Uniting the minority, making them fell like a majority and that they matter

Conflict ResolutionBlog 7

1.) Pick a church leader and research what he/ she has said about conflict resolution. Below share at least two of your favorite findings. 
My favorite church leader is Dieter F. Uchdorf. He's amazing and a stud. My favorite things that he said about conflict resolution are:
-One time, he was driving and saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car. This was a really interesting bumper sticker. On it, the bumper sticker said "don't judge me because you sin differently". This is a lesson to not pass final judgement on someone.
-Also, in a general conference talk he was talking about how when there are conflicts, all you have to do is figure out what causes it and just "STOP IT." Simple as that.

2.) What is the difference between destructive conflict and constructive conflict?

Destructive conflict the prevents the problem from being resolved and makes it harder to solve.
Constructive Conflict helps each party to find out what problems they have with each other and figure it out. Also, constructive conflict provides a way to release tension and is geared towards mutual understanding.

3.) Do you currently embrace good conflict or evade it? Analyze your current way of managing conflict and find two areas of improvement.

I'm not sure how well I embrace good conflict. I suppose i'm in the middle. We all make mistakes and sometimes we do well. Having conflicts can help us grow and I've had a lot of good types of conflict and a lot of bad kinds. My current way of managing conflict is to either go alone and think about it for a while and not talking to them. What I should do is communicate better and learn to come out of the box. Also, another good way of managing conflict is to be able to translate what the other person is saying and get their point of view.

blog 5

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     Of the 5 dysfunctions, the one that I find is hardest to implement is lack of commitment. When something is planned, some people just never show up. Most of the time they're busy because it's college, but some people just don't try and work on a project or go to an event. A better way to facilitate against falling into this dysfunction is to make the work more attractive. One of the best ways I've found to make it easier to do things and make you want to do them is to have something that's boring and turn it into something out of the ordinary or something cool. Instead of playing ultimate frisbee, you could play ultimate cabbage. If you're planning a group project for a class, change it into a game or something interesting and try to get people on the project involved.

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As a leader, some obstacles that might turn up when facilitating teamwork are:

- mental block
          sometimes, people just can't come up with an idea. Sometimes bringing in a third party is a great way to unblock the ideas.
- communication in the group
          sometimes the group doesn't know what the other people in the group are planning. It's important to have something that will keep the whole group updated on any changes there are.
- mistrust
          sometimes people just don't do their part and loose the respect of their peers. It's good to realize the problem and talk to the people that just aren't doing their part. Hopefully that'll motivate them.

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