Lab Learning: Day 16

Haven't had much opportunity for direct learning the last few days thanks to being distracted with some other things while others went about detailing our model. 2 things happened, though. We've been working to detail out our model and we have been moving forwards and stepping back. It's been frustrating, fun, painful and satisfying all at the same time. I saw that the higher the stress, the more our personalities stand out, and the anger, frustrations begin to simmer. It makes managing this lab challenging, and many times the wisdom of the lab leader in managing the group saved the day. Knowing each others profiles is definitely a big help! We've also been detailing out our model, each working on a different part of the model and we syndicated it against a big group. It was made difficult because we didn't have a big picture to work on. After the session we put together a big picture, and we realised that had this been done earlier, the syndication conversations would have moved in a different direction, probably smoother, too. Because of the many individual concerns, a big picture would have focused everyone on the whole elephant, instead of its individual parts, and we would have been able to discuss on the really big issues first. Still, an interesting experience in managing a big group discussion.