For DEJ #4 I will analyze the article A Project Team Analysis Using Tuckman’s Model of Small-Group Development.

Text-to-Self: This article brings to mind a time when I was part of a team that struggled with accountability and unclear expectations. We started our project with no clear goals or guidelines, which led to a lot of miscommunication and frustration. Just like the Storming stage described in the article, we had a period of conflict, and it wasn’t until we established clearer roles and responsibilities similar to the team charter that we began to function properly.

Text-to-Text: The team charter that is mentioned in this article reminds me of the project I worked on during my internship at Bosch last summer. We had to develop a team charter for a coding project that would assess the priority level of certain tasks based on their importance to make sure production in the factory would remain active. In the forming stage, we had a great ethical perspective of our objective as well as clear and concise roles for all team members involved.

Text-to-World: In the workplace, employees often feel dissatisfied when tasks and responsibilities are distributed unevenly, leading to burnout and turnover. This article’s focus on the ethical implications of workload management connects to larger discussions in the world of education and healthcare about how to retain staff by ensuring fairness and transparency in management decisions. Today, with more focus on employee well-being and fairness, these ethical perspectives are critical for any organization aiming to maintain a motivated and productive workforce.

For this DEJ post, I reviewed the article 40 Years of Storming: A historical review of Tuckman’s model of small group development.

Text-to-Self: This article reminds me of the times I’ve been part of group projects in my academic and professional life. When I first started working on team projects, there was always that initial period of everyone being polite and trying to figure out their place, just like in Tuckman’s Forming stage. I’ve also experienced the Storming stage, where conflicts over tasks or leadership roles arise. It takes time for everyone to settle into their roles and for the project to become productive. The personal frustration and sense of satisfaction that comes from finally getting a group to work efficiently reflect my own experiences as a leader, trying to navigate these stages.

Text-to-Text: This article really makes me think of an article I read about in my internship I had this past summer called the 5x WHY. It is a foundational structure for establishing a team and solving a problem using a structured ethical approach. The models complement each other giving great insight into both the mechanics and emotional dynamics of teamwork.

Text-to-World: I have seen Tuckman’s model applied in my internship at Bosch where teams had to be established for specific projects. In which Tuckman’s model is applied every day to help facilitate the management of the teams to efficiently and effectively handle any problem at hand.

During this week we covered three different articles and had a group activity.

I had a text-to-self connection with the hot topic article this week named: “North Carolina Teen Detained at Airport for Using Travel Hack to Cut Costs, Dad Says”. This source reminded me of when I was booking a plane ticket to Prague in the Czech Republic and realized how expensive these flights really were. I can relate to the parents wanting to save money by using travel hacks such as getting off before your next connecting flight.

I had a text-to-text connection connection with the article “Top 10 Qualities that Make a Great Leader”. As I read an article called “How to Define Your Purpose as a Leader ” in my SLC 450 class. Which went over some of the same qualities as the reading we had this week such as honesty, communication, etc… This text is different from other similar text I have read though as it gave examples of how each of these qualities can represent a strong leader.

Finally I had a text-to-world connection in the article called “How to Live With Purpose, Identify Your Values and Improve Your Leadership”. This article made me evaluate my values and evaluate the values of leaders I know such as my boss Woody last summer. I think this is a text to world example for me though because it has a great point of reminding you to check your values frequently and often. I feel this does not happen in the real world with every decision you make and is unrealistic to say you can do so.

-Due 8/21: Double Entry Journal Post #1 [Test]