Increasing the Pace

Wednesday 11. march

A very productive day where we worked on our dream target group, brainstormed on ways of how to investigate our target group's need and talked about which roles we needed for the meeting with Sohu. We also decided on who to be the harvester. The selection process of choosing a harvester was based on personal motivation and relevance in connection to learning goals. A good solution was found where Louise was appointed harvester and Kim was promised to facilitate at least one harvest-session, as he wanted some facilitation experience.

We talked about our dream team scenario. How do we wish to structure ourselves and which roles are needed? We grouped up and interviewed each other on success stories from previous team and project work. Our best experiences and methods/tools for how to work in projects were shared in the team and based on that we started talking about how we could build our team structure based on that. The talk reached a halt and Eleonor had us all move out on the roof terrace. Lukas turned it in to a physical game and the energy went up. We suddenly used a ball as a talking stick and threw it to each other, sharing what we wanted to include in our team structure. Eleonor had a need for knowing which mandate she has so the dialog circled around that until we felt we had reached consensus. The agreement is that Eleonor has the mandate to take the mandate she see fit. However, if someone is facilitating a process, it is the facilitator who has the mandate.

It was a good and meaningful session, where we also were honest and confronted each other.
We also saw a need for having someone being in charge of documenting our project. Kasper
was chosen as doc. responsible. Eleonor facilitated the whole day.

Opening Up

Tuesday 10. march

While Eleonor was at the first Magnolia board meeting, the rest of us had a spontaneous session about the previous day and why we thought we had been so low. The session started by a confrontation between Kim and Kasper in a discussion of weather or not somethings were not allowed to be said in relation to Marinas role. Lukas asked into the issue and the discussion was
turned into a dialog where we all shared our personal state of mind. It turned out that the previous day also had been colored by our personal issues. The honest dialog aspired a new sense of motivation and was also team building. The low mode on Monday was also caused by uncertainties of the leader role. What kind of mandate did Eleonor have and how much leadership was she willing to take?

We followed up on Marinas role and what we wished it to be. Marina had sent an e-mail to Eleonor where she had written down our agenda for the meeting with Sohu and also given us homework. We found it a bit strange that she had done that, since she is not our leader or teacher. But maybe it was just about language? If she would have used a KP language maybe we wouldn't have reacted at all. However, Marinas role has confused some of us and made some
of us really frustrated. Will we confront her, or will we work with her and practice our skills of working with someone from another culture?

Kasper and Lukas made a mock up of the project time. Kim researched on Sohu, Rickhard prepared a slide show and a presentation about KP for the meeting with Sohu on Thursday.

Lukas facilitated a 2 hour process on our learning goals. This session brought us closer and was good for our preject because we learned what we each were motivated for, what we wanted to learn and how we all could support each other in achieving our goals.

It began with a group

Monday 9. march

Project:
First project day. We tried to understand the assignment. We talked
about who should have the manager role. Eleonor and Lukas were
interested. Eleonor took leadership in getting the team to brainstorm
and write down our ideas and questions.
We set up a meeting with Marina the same day to get
a clearer understanding of the assignment. Marina came to homebase
for a two hour meeting where we had prepared an agenda of what
we wished to have clarified. She went through the background of
the project, introduced Sohu and tried to tell us what process and
project is... without success.


Process:
The mood was low throughout the day even though we were sitting on the terrace and enjoying the first day of sun at the outpost. Due to uncertainties of what the project was about we had a hard time to get motivated. At the meeting with Marina, many of us became bored and also confused about what Sohu's role really was. Marina mentioned that we shouldn't think of Sohu as a client, but a partner. Uncertainties regarding Marinas role arose. What did she think her role was? The day ended in a low mode.