In my freshman year at UC, we had a business project for my whole freshman class, which were about twenty people. The project was about how to start up a restaurant from scratch. Because it was a big project and lasted for a whole semester, we divided our big group into four smaller groups that focused on specific aspect of the company, such as marketing, location, website, etc. I was part of the marketing group and due to some misunderstanding, I had a conflict with another member in my small group. We disagreed on how to advertise the new restaurant to people on campus, either by using social media or by actually handling out flyers to people. Because we did not have enough fund to do 2 things, we had to eventually choose one. I chose making a website and using facebook, twitter to advertise about the restaurant because it could reach out to a lot of people in a short time and got their attention easily. However, my teammate thought that it is hard to attract people because there are thousands of website out there and people would not want to open a new website just to check out a new restaurant. He wanted to give people flyers and talk with as many people on campus as he can about the restaurant because he believed direct communication was the best way to make people remember about something new. After the disagreement at the beginning, we eventually found out a way to resolve the problem. Instead of making a whole new website, we agreed to just use facebook and twitter because it was easier to create and also we could utilize our friend lists that we already had to invite them to follow the restaurant page. In addition, we used the rest of the time to meet people on campus to give away free cookies and hand out flyers advertising about the restaurant. At the end, the result was great because we understood each other and completed the same goal. If I can change anything with my action at that time, I would still do the same thing because I realized disagreement sometimes makes people work harder for what they believe in and it was a great thing to do in any project. As long as every team member comes to the points that everyone agrees with each other, we do not have to worry about interpersonal conflict.
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