Reflective Journal Week 2 - Investigate Stage

This week we had our first meeting at the crack of dawn (10.20am) to discuss our groups statement of grace, detailing our intentions

Statement of Grace

Together this group hopes to achieve goals by a combination of our skills.

·      Nidhi Raniga – Attention to detail.

·      Rosie Manley – Creative Perspective

·      Luke Walker- Structural Analysis

·      Ben Ein –Critical Thinking

·      Kath Bowden – Organisational development

·      Ashley Walker - Creative Idea Generator

·      Devon Jones- Insightful Viewpoint

Work style and personality profile

·      Nidhi Raniga – Like to work with ideas fresh procrastinates, needs through explanation.

·      Rosie Manley – Hard copy work, hands on attitude., doesn’t cope under pressure.

·      Luke Walker - Spread out work evenly, to efficiently accomplish goals, makes hasty decisions.

·      Ben Ein – calm nature, organised and decisive, procrastinates.

·      Kath Bowden – Procrastinates, works best under pressure or organised working.

·      Ashley Walker – out of the box thinking, targeting problems efficiently, procrastinate.

·      Devon Jones – Calm, procrastinates, diligent and studious, impatient.

Meeting Schedule

·      Once a week every Monday gradually increasing with higher influx of work.

Expectations of each other

·      Everyone to put in same effort

·      Everyone to aim for A++

·      Communication – Facebook, Text, Email, in class, and Meeting sessions.

·      Voicing opinions.

·      Open communication.

·      Communicate Tardiness.

Failure Action Plan

·      Immediately address flaws in the group through open communication.

·      Unforeseen circumstances, planning and teamwork is key.

·      Personal communication, plan out parts of the assignment and delegate, in case of emergency, communication will be essential.

·      Delegation allows for no weak links, one person lets the group down and we will not achieve our goals.

·      Discuss problems head on, voice opinions negative or positive.Do we need to do work as a group? Or is it ok to collaborate separately and then come together later? How will we work through tasks?

 We must check back in constantly with the group in between each tasks.

Mission Statement

Work collaboratively to no only succeed but to understand tasks  present to us as a group, keep all lines of communication open in order to work towards a common goal and embrace constructive criticism and helping each other to excel.

Then we talked about Investigating our idea that AUT doesn't have a typical "Student Life"so to start the investigative process we talked about three different types of Investigation, Personal, Passive and Interactive. We started with Passive and went Knowledge spotting taking pictures of people in there environment, observing from a distance. we needed to ask ourselves , who are they? what are they doing? how/what are they feeling? and are there needs fully met? who/what/where.why/when/how.

We then went and took photos of people within there environments.