Adjourning Stage

Adjourning: The process of "unforming" the group, that is, letting go of the group structure and moving on.

If a group has fulfilled its goals and objectives, it will move into the adjourning stage.
At this stage it is important to achieve closure for the group on a positive note. Group members may feel a sense of loss and their motivation may decline when the group's work comes to an end.

I think that the groups that made it hardest for me to leave were those that seem to put forth the most effort.  Not always were the group goals accomplished but the members put forth a great deal of effort so at the end of the experience it sometimes made it hard to leave the group.
I honestly must say that although I’ve had several classes with different colleagues here at Walden I’ve not built any close relationships.  For this reason I think that adjourning from this experience will be fairly easy.

Conflict Strategies

Throughout my adulthood I’ve always been in some type of management position.  I have had to deal with all sorts of conflict and have been challenged with finding solutions to conflict between others.  I recently had a situation where I had to terminate an employee of mine in my own personal owned business and she became very irate. It was very upsetting to me because although I have been writing her up for the past few months she acted as though the termination was a total surprise. I am not sure how I could have communicated any differently or handled the termination any differently but I will say that I feel that because of the way she reacted to be terminated made me act out of character as well. 

This weeks course work has helped me to look at different strategies to hopefully help me in the future when having to terminate employees.  One strategy I may try is the cooperative strategy.  When I sit down with an employee and am writing them up maybe we can come up with a solution together to the issues they are having and make them understand that if it continues that termination is the next resort.  The second strategy is understanding that although a person may get irate and upset me I must keep my cool and not become verbally aggressive and keep my focus on the facts and not the individual.