Making Things Work...Or Not

This week we learned about solving problems. I thought that Mike and Carly did a great job this week! I like how they gave us that test to see what kind of conflict management styles we use most often. I was in the category compromising, where I try to help make everyone sacrifice a little in order to get the best outcome and have everyone be happy. I think that I actually belong more in the accommodating group because when Amy was talking about her answers I felt like I related to her more than to compromising. I usually try to stay away from conflict until it gets worse or I am sick of thinking about it. In high school, I had a really opinionated friend and she would just argue with anyone that disagreed with her. I think that is why we were such close friends because she would try and argue with me and I would just give up and say okay maybe you are right and move on! Even though I still thought I was right, I thought there were more important things to talk about. I thought the questions that we had to answer were really great and helped explain how and when to use each style.

We also broke off into groups of two and had to work on working as a team. The trick was that we were in some way made handicapped, for example Dylan and I had to make a clay animal by only using our non-dominant hands. Everyone did something different and I thought it was a great representation of learning how to think out of the box and trying to accomplish something that might be a little uncomfortable or difficult. This applies to being a peer mentor because we are going to be put in some situations where we may be uncomfortable and being able to get practice in any kind of uncomfortable situation will make me even more comfortable when something more serious comes up.