professional thanks!!

      I want to say a special thanks to all of my colleagues that have supported me up until this point in my journey and in this class specifically.  I have learned so much from each and every one of them and taken so much away from the experience from learning about collaboration and communication and how important it is in this profession specifically.  I have also learned so much about myself and my own communication and what I need to work on to make my communication skills better for when  I do work in groups of people and collaborate on different ideas.
     Again I want to thank all of my colleagues for their insight and feedback on my own Ideas and also sharing their ideas that have also inspired me and help me along the way in this course.  They have allowed me to think about things in a different light and viewpoint and I truly appreciate that.  I hope for nothing but the best of success to you all as you complete your journey here at Walden and as you each go into your professional fields, I am sure you will all do amazing things in the field.  I also want to thank the instructor for your valued input and allowing us to expand on our ideas and adding to our ideas with great feedback and questions, they have really helped a lot and I will take what I have gathered on with me as I continue on this journey.

Best Wishes!

Leaving a team...

As I think back to when I had to leave a group that was most important or a group that I had a lot of success working in I would have to say it was the daycare center that I started working in.  I worked there for 3 years and I definitely built a bond with my coworkers throughout the years together and we worked together very well.  This was probably the hardest place for me to leave because I was so used to the children there and watched a lot of them grow up and also the staff and I developed a working bond that helped a lot when we would do group projects or trips. With the closing ritual with this specific group we had a big meeting and going away party because I was the only one who was leaving and it was sad, but we all left on the note of if we were to ever need each other in the future we can always call or reach out for assistance in the future.  I am still in contact with them and definitely reach our for guidance and help in a lot of things or just advice for my own future endeavors in the early childhood field.

In regards to adjourning from my group of colleagues i imagine that it will be a little sad, but of course I will continue to keep in contact and definitely offer for anyone to keep in contact with me if need be for anything in the future, I would love to be of support and assistance in any way that I can.  Adjourning is an essential stage of teamwork, because at some point all things do come to an end and you have to begin work on something else, so leaving it at a good place is necessary, you may never know when you will work with the same people again if ever you do.

Conflict and disagreements.

I don't normally have open conflicts with people, but  I often have disagreements with people depending on what the topic is. I was recently having a disagreement with a friend of mine regarding voting and the political election.  My friend was saying that their vote wouldn't matter so they were not going to vote at all based on not liking either of the candidates.  Instead of yelling or getting into a verbal argument with my friend I simply stressed the importance of their vote and how it does matter.  I didn't pressure them to vote or scold them in any way instead I pointed out all of the positive things in it and why it is important to vote and why they should get their vote out their because it does matter.  I asked my friend who would they rather see in office and they told me and I asked and why would you rather them over the other candidate and my friend gave me a list of reasons why and I said that is exactly why you should vote.

There are many people just like my friend out there that are not voting for that very reason and a lot of the times they are misunderstood and they actually have good valid points that should be heard, I had someone talk me into voting recently at work because I had the very same mindset.  The way you approach people about things matters a whole lot and makes a huge difference in their response.