Poseidon's Trident Analysis

Ever wonder why the sea rumbles or causes a tsunami? Well, that is Poseidon controlling the waves of the sea that you see before you. Read this and you will see why Poseidon should be a marine biologist.

One of the main issues impeding the efficiency and preventing successful teamwork in this situation was uncertainty with the structural design of this project team. I was more familiar (and comfortable) with a rigid chain of command structure. My belief that we should be precisely executing the stated orders of our Navy leadership created obstacles for the other team members. Other more academically inclined team members were less oriented toward this centralized structure and therefore did not comprehend my opposition to their content ideas.

The details of organization structure are part of this experience, our struggles in firing a member, working together on details, and communicating clearly were all evident last week. I felt like we needed to fire one team member before last week. There had been no response, and I knew it was going to hurt the team effort; but I also felt like the person needed an opportunity to contribute, as well as not wanting to be the team member who expressed the idea of firing someone else. If I can go back to chapter nine, I believe groupthink caused each of us to hesitate, even when we all knew what needed to be done. The third question on the assessment dealt with the genuine belief that others can do as well as I can, and I answered mostly true. I do believe that all people are capable, and need opportunities to succeed and prove it to themselves, but question seven was also answered mostly true, which stated that I get upset when someone doesn’t do the task correctly. That is the contrast between the perfectionist in me and the delegator. I enjoy the text messages and conversations on discussion boards in the collaborative work of classes, but when it comes to a team project, I worry about someone else not being as motivated or not getting the work in on time. I don’t mean that about my team members right now, I am reflecting more on past team projects in school. It has always been a couple of us doing most of the work, so we could bail

Further complicating group cohesion, one member never fully “buying into” the group. This was partly because of the topic being chosen at a meeting they could not attend, due to the own member’s refusal to meet except for a particular day in which the other two members both had scheduling conflicts. We solicited their feedback by text and email multiple times all of which went unanswered. As a result, this member was like “pushing an elephant” throughout the project and constantly threatened our group success. Whether it was through lack of competent communication, constant questioning of our project, insulting other members (I truly don’t think this person was remotely aware of how they were coming across even after it was pointed out), overall lack of enthusiasm for the project, and group itself; group cohesion was a constant struggle and the success of the group was in question. To handle the situation, the other two group members worked together, dug our heels in and kind of “dragged” the third person along for the ride. To the naysayer’s credit, when it came right down to it, they delivered for our group. We were able to present a well thought out, planned, and polished presentation despite internal tension present at the time. In both our Call and on our feedback from our presentation to the

The Poseidon Project is a voluntary initiative led by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam and the Dutch Courage Foundation. It aims to build a global community to find solutions that reduce water usage by applying Internet of Things technologies, especially in the agricultural sector. Robert-Jan Sips a research lead at IBM’s Center for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam, decided to make an unusual use of his extended vacation – he and a friend Gert-Jan Keizer founded a charity called the Dutch Courage Foundation and drove from the Netherlands through Russia to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to study the problem at first hand. Along the way, they stopped at universities to engage with students and launch an education

Being an ENFP person myself helped me quite a bit in the group. Since ENFPs are known to be project oriented, I was put in the position of the leader of the group. I noticed that no one was active in the group except Mahnoush, so I had to be the leader and assign everyone their part and keep reminding them to work. Since I tend to procrastinate a lot I volunteered to be the person who gathers all the papers and puts them together. However, even with that, I turned out to be the first person to finish all my work while the rest of the members gave me their work the day it was due, which is Saturday January 2nd. This was inconvenient as I have told them many times to give it to me at least a day or two

In solving this issue, the group should be more open to new ideas. My initial motivation towards the group was purely intrinsic but on the long run it became extrinsic (became all about results.) as I did not see the need to be intrinsically motivated when my contribution to the group during the first presentation was totally discarded. The need theory wasn’t properly taken into consideration in my group as some people didn’t care to know about what motivates others in the group. There were some elements of the free rider effect because of some people feeling that their input to the group was the best and no order input can be better than what they have offered. Carrying fellow group members along, making them have a sense of responsibility and not always treating their contribution as not worthy will solve the issue of the free rider effect in the group. As the expectancy theory suggests that people will expend energy if they think it will pay off so despite all my negative observations about the group, I was able to put all behind me because I wanted a very good outcome for the group. The end goal of achieving excellence in the project was also a motivating factor within the group which meant compromises had to be made to achieve

3. Figure out where the communication breakdown is an fix it. I would argue that in this case, there appears to be a lack of communication on all fronts and that it is detrimental to a project of any type.

The god that I will be doing is Poseidon. Poseidon was the god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses. He is known to be one of the worst tempered, and greedy olympian gods. Poseidon is the son of Cronus and Rhea. His father swallowed him along with Hades, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera. Poseidon and his brothers then found out how to defeat their father and put his pieces into a special box so that, that can’t happen again.

If I was not part of the group, the image could have been different as I was the one that suggested it. Furthermore, the drawing, painting of the canvas and the symbols would have had another look. If Reilly was not a member of the group we would not have gotten the sand or the seashells that are visible in the final product. That sand colour and seashells were what was exactly needed to enhance the project, and as it is expensive, those resources would have been unavailable to us. If Josh was not a member of this group, we would have missed some of the fundamental activities that Pi does on the boat such as writing in his journal. Moreover, he constructed the 3d boat using paper mache. As I have no former experience creating art using paper mache, I would have unable to create and design the boat. Finally, the project could not have been completed in time without the time and effort of all the members. The assignment initially gave the impression of an extremely heavy workload, and I was anxious that we would not be able to complete it in time. All the members helping assured that the project could be finished efficiently. Everyone in the group contributed in different ways to the design

During the planning stages everyone was involved and communicating. The problem was, there were too many innovators. Having to many innovators is harmful to a group because, there is no one to Evaluate and critic the ideas. The leader then asked for clarification on the rules being an information seeker and the teacher acting as an information giver. His question asked sounded like he was trying to go around the rules but I ignored it. When my group decided to build from the roof down to the floor I decided to be a critic, realizing we have too many ideas flowing. I confronted the group asking if the idea might go against the rules. The other members contested that “it’ll be alright” and settled their minds on a plan to good to be true. Being the only member to disagree I had to agreeing-ly compromise so that I wasn’t a blocker standing in the way of progress. Later I really regretted my passiveness, because if I would have been more assertive we wouldn’t have gone with a plan that went against the

The group’s process during the project was very successful. Our team’s communication relied on the group chat made through Facebook. We did encounter some setbacks, but nothing we weren’t able to deal with as a team. When creating our team contract, the whole team decided we would take on this project with a democratic approach. This means all decisions would be put up to a vote and the majority vote won. In our first steps of the project, we had to decide what organization we wanted to work with. As a team we agreed that our priority was to work with children, then as a backup we had the possibilities of working with the elderly or with animals. The voting ended up for the children and then the elderly as our backup

I watched as the group became emotionally detached from project and felt hurt. This project was mine as much as it was theirs and I wasn’t gonna let fail because of bad attitudes. It was time to stop hiding behind the boom pole and save the

Although our group achieved some level of success in the project, there were many challenging occasions ranging from the significant disagreement of the most effective move, to communication breakdown among some team members. While the challenges may have cost the team significant progress, they also offered relevant insight into our personal flaws which, if addresses appropriately, would result in improved personal and professional growth for all group

Have you ever heard about the gods of Olympus? Poseidon is one of the gods of Olympus. He is one of the most powerful gods in the kingdom of gods. Poseidon is the god of the seas, earthquakes, storms, horses, and droughts. Poseidon has the worst temper out of all the other gods in Olympus. If anyone were to insult him, he would be extremely vengeful to whoever were to insult him. Today, you'll learn about the god Poseidon, relatives and family of Poseidon, how he still relates to the present, how Poseidon came to be the god of the seas, and things that Poseidon is responsible for. So as for a god, he has a lot of history and very interesting things.