Week Eleven: Our Team Evaluation

TEAM 32- “Check-In”

Renee Landers, Sophie Scott, Emma Belcher, Tapiwa Mutagwede, Samantha Hodgins

Blog: http://team32creative.blogspot.co.nz

Professionalism of your facilitation OR Performativity and Popularity of your stall / experience: how did your team perform on the day? We presented ourselves really cohesively and played the part really clearly. We carefully planned how we were going to act and look in the flight attendant character to ensure that we kept a consistent manner throughout the market. For example we pitched our idea using flight attendant language and being fully in character to really make the experience authentic for everybody involved. We also did not stand behind our desk to hand out the passports, we actively went out in front of our table and greeted people as they came into the market so that from the start they felt comfortable and at ease as they didn’t have to do the approaching themselves.

Effort v's Return: was this equal? Did your idea and it's execution live up to your expectations? Was it validated on the day? We were a bit disappointed by the number of people who brought back passports. The level of excitement that people showed for our activity at the beginning when we handed out the passport to them seemed to decrease when it was time to hand the passport back to us. Perhaps the clues were too hard, or people were overwhelmed by the sheer size and busyness of the market and didn’t feel that they needed the passport as a prompt to go to all of the stalls. We feel like our effort that we put into peoples experience on the day was not really matched by the participants of the activity as they all seemed super eager to get into the market and did not really want to stop on the way in.

Group Functioning: what worked and what didn’t? Think both about the process in the lead-up to PACKED and the day itself. What worked was our consistency, always meeting the same day at the same time so that there was never any confusion and we always knew when we were getting together. Every meeting we made a to-do list so that everybody knew what was expected of them and get it done. Sometimes peoples schedules were out of sync so some of the members couldn’t make it to the meetings all of the time, but we got through it using social media conversations to keep everyone in the loop. There were different work ethics so there was friction at times when some members wanted to do things straight away and others wanted to take more time to do the tasks. On the day, the scheduling of the team members manning the Check-In desk could have been improved, as we didn’t realise how long an hour would feel when you are constantly greeting everybody. Switching over of the team members every half an hour would have been better as the people on the desk wouldn’t have got so tired.

What have your learnt from working in a team? What worked and what didn't? What would you do the same and what would you do differently? People like to do things in different ways. We have learnt that you cannot force people to work in your way and you must compromise in order to be successful as a team. Establishing a relationship between the team members was really important because you have more empathy for the other peoples ideas and can understand them better which led to improved team morale and dynamics. You have to step back and trust that other team members will get their tasks done rather than doing it all yourself like you do in an individual project. We also learned that communication is key! We have kept in contact really effectively in the second half of the semester through Facebook messenger. One aspect of communication that failed with or group was over the holidays we ceased contact entirely when everybody went home. This meant that we had a mad rush to get the proposal plan in just before it was due.

What was the audience response to your stall OR facilitation? Explain — Include an image of the day? Video? Drawing?

Some of the younger people seemed a little hesitant, but the third years and teachers seemed to be really excited to participate. Dressing up and having the stall decorated so cohesively made people often think that we were in the events stream and even in charge of the market at times! One third year teacher aid who finished the passport said “I didn’t think that I was going to enjoy some of the stalls that were in the market, but I did them because they were in the passport and really enjoyed them.”