Communication & Delegation

February 21, 2019

I believe we are almost to the midway point in our project and things still seem unorganized. Thankfully, I was given the task to write the introduction and conclusion for our instructions. I was very happy to oblige, however, short my work may be, at least I have some contribution thus far. I am still finding it difficult to follow along with group communication. The long emails are hard to follow and there to seem to be new chains added every couple of days. This method of communication, in my opinion, is extremely scattered and disheveled.

Yet another issue is the lack of delegation with the workload. I believe there is some effort in divvying up the work but nowhere near what it should be. So far, this has been a learning experience for me. Being new to international communication within a group has certainly brought its challenges. This new dynamic is teaching me how to deal with the challenges of international, multicultural communication. It seems there is a clear separation of how we do things here at home versus those the students abroad.

This week I received an email from one of my other UCF group members. It seems as though, the three of us at UCF are struggling together to get through this project. We all have voiced similar feelings in frustration about the lack of communication, organization, and delegation. At this point, all we can do is make the best of the situation and attempt to contribute when and where we can.

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