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Prompt #1: Did your team perform effectively during the simulation? Why or why not?
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I think that our team performed very effectively during the simulation. Throughout the simulation, we made decisions as a team. We weighed the pros and cons of each situation, and made a consensual decision for each day. During the simulation, each player had a different role which each role had a different set of priorities than the others. In order to achieve an individuals priorities, the group must have 1) sacrificed their own priorities to meet the priorities of others, or
2) continued to play according to their own individual priorities and hope that it will all work out in the end. I feel that both situation 1 and 2 occurred during the simulation. When possible, I felt as though the team would make sacrifices for each other as needed. In the end, only two team members made it to the summit, two team members were rescued (on the last move), and one team member was still climbing by the end of the simulation. Two team members had to be rescued because as a team, we made inaccurate calculations about how much oxygen we
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would need to get to the top.
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Prompt #2: Were there any specific impediments to team effectiveness? !
Our team definitely fell victim to the common information effect. One example of this is when we made miscalculations in regards to how much oxygen we needed. To be completely honest, I hate math with a passion. So when the majority of my team decided how much oxygen was needed per person, I immediately agreed with their decision. Instead of pulling out a calculator to find a hidden profile, I was influenced by the majority of the team. If I was more proactive, I
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may have been able to help the team accomplish our mission effectively.
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Prompt #3: How did the leader help or hinder the team's efforts to achieve its goals?
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The leader helped the team by assisting in making final decisions. When decisions amongst the team were unbalanced, the leaders opinion would pull a lot of weight in the final decision.
Seeing as the leader had made the trip 15 times before, she was deemed expert during the climb. Taking into consideration that her body has been through the harsh environment of Mt.
Everest, that also played a part when it came to making decisions about who gets how much
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oxygen in the end.
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Prompt #4: How did your team manage the technology aspects of the project? Did you work synchronously or asynchronously?
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Our team worked synchronously through the use of Google Hangout. Google hangout allowed
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us to chat freely when making decisions, without any interruptions.
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Prompt #5: Would you revise your overall approach to the simulation if you had a
"second chance" at it? If so, how?
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If I were to revise our overall approach, I would have changed a few things. I would have not stayed in camp 3, and I would have moved forward to camp 4 with the team so that I could provide the team with medical supplies immediately. I would have also encouraged the photographer to sacrifice pictures, and to travel closer to the team. This would have made it so that they could have joined us and made it further in the climb. I would have payed more critical attention to the mathematical calculations in order to ensure that everyone had the appropriate amount of oxygen.
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