Interviews
may have been another reason for our slow progress as while we were all equally capable, the group lacked direction. Unfortunately we could not get another team member to raise our number from the critically low number of three (Belbin, 2010) so we had to pro-actively take on 'square' traits despite them not coming naturally to us.
As we got more comfortable and had a clear direction once decided on the race night, everything ran much more fluidly and we worked well as a team, settling naturally into our roles and these did change slightly as we progressed through the process.
Why was this type of learning experience beneficial?
Beard and Wilson (2013) state that learning is greatly enhanced when the learner is engaged on as many levels of possible and go on to define these levels as six dimensions of how we experience the world (Belonging/Doing/Sensing/Feeling/ Thinking/Being).
wasted a lot of time on these initial event designs in the concept and proposal phase particularly when trying to get funding for the dance theatre event. This delayed our planning by quite a bit so we chose the race night as it seemed like a safer bet due to the charity running it before.
In hindsight I believe it would have been better to spend more time conducting preliminary research so that one definitely viable event was produced from the beginning as this would have given us more time for the marketing and coordination phases (Matthews, 2007).
Better use of project management techniques such as defining the project and its scope, scheduling and Gantt charts would have addressed this issue (Bowdin, 2011; Bladen 2012). I believe it was hard for us to make a decision as complete buy-in to our early ideas was not established meaning we spent a little too long in the ideas stage.
Analysing ourselves against Susan Dellinger's (1989, cited in Byrd, 2014; Lowndes, 2000) Psycho-geometrics we were a group of circles and triangles, lacking a square to balance the group with their highly organised nature. This