Adjourning

The groups that I have worked with were either from church, work or school.  The groups from work taught me the most for many reasons; Diversity in age, gender, religion and environment.   I have learned to ask specific questions in a work group and respectful  very diverse ideas.  This type of group is the hardest to leave because you get awareness from them.

The norms were more of the church groups; we were “like minded” in most areas, age, religion, diversity and environment. Although meeting s were productivity the norms were always easy to establish.

In the high performing groups  I learned how to be prepared and come with questions. This type of group caused me to think outside the box and to be critical thinker with some sort of resolution.  In other groups I have taken what I have learned from work and have helped with  more answers  to questions that needed attention.  Leaving one department and going into another I can say it was very hard to say goodbye to the committee that challenged me to think differently.

 I really haven’t  experienced closing rituals  or none that have left an impact on me. A few rituals that I have come to enjoy in meetings  are; coming with candy to make the environment as comfortable as possible, having a person type  up word  every word said to use as a reference if needed , having a timekeeper  and a facilitator to put side bar conversations in their perspective places.

My hope or my  idea to adjourn from  the group of colleagues in the Master’s program would be in the form of meeting my classmates face to face the night before graduation and just talking about the program and after the ceremony we would all eat together . Just like any other project,  adjourning demonstrates  that we have hung in there  from beginning  to the end  with a great sense of completion.