Blog Entry #4 by Justin Speich

Motivation is defined as, "the processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal," (Robbins/Judge 175). Motivation has played a key positive role in our group's project so far. For example, when deciding what our project would be about we decided that the project should be involved around a topic we all feel strngly about, and those strong feelings are what is the driving motivation behind us reaching our ultimate goal of accomplishment in this project. Without motivation this project doesn't get done, plain and simple. I think that our goals to try and make the UWM campus a more recycle friendly environment are being reached because of our motivation. Motivation has helped this group immensely to stay on task and keep our project moving in a positive direction.

Blog Entry #3 by Aaron Schrage

As a group our decision making has been very easy going. The group seems to agree with eachother from day one and that is because we all get along and understand eachothers perceptions and ideas on this topic. When our group first was introduced no one new eachother but that didn't stop us from getting to know eachother and working as a unit to finish the task at hand. Since our team gelled as one our progress towards the final project has been very positive. If you get some team chemistry (which we have) that will go along way as to how well our project will be. If our team ever has a conflict with anothers belief we will back track to how the arguement came about and will try to resolve it with critical thinking of all four members of the team. This team has been very positive all along and I don't see that changing over the upcoming weeks.

Blog Entry #3 by Brad Harris

I think the decision making process has been somewhat simple and very positive when it comes to our group. Instead of being stubborn and not being open to other ideas, our group makes suggestions and we are open to other's ideas. This way we are able to think as a group and find the best solution possible. This was important when we first formed our group and picked our topic of "Go Green or Go Home" for a Greener Milwaukee. There's no doubt that this has played a positive role in our group thus far. Perceptions have also played a positive role in our group by looking at Waste Management and seeing how realistic their answers are to our questions and if their solutions to pollution are reasonable and actually possible. I think it will be easy for our group to see if these solutions are plausible or not.

Blog Entry #3 by Matthew Bagnall

Developing intelligent perceptions along with having an efficient decision-making process is an integral part of creating a positive atmosphere in a group work environment. This is reflective upon our group and how we have been working together. By avoiding negative perceptions based on appearence and other nonessential factors our group was able to better analyze the skills each group member possessed. As a result, the group was able to smoothly assign different roles to each member based on their individual strengths. This led to a well-organized and effective decision-making process. Every member has been able to voice their opinions on which direction they think the project should go. Accordingly, everyone respects each others opinions and no one becomes apathetic towards the project. This leads to a well thought out decision-making process where everyone contributes. Additionally, nothing is rushed because everyone shares the common goal of creating a quality project.

Blog Entry #3 by Justin Speich

Perceptions and decision-making processes have played a very positive role in our group project so far. The factor that has contributed the most to our progress was each group member's ability to use their sense of perception about each other when we first formed this group. Instead of everyone judging each other based on appearance, our group, myself included, got to know one another and perceived each other based on rational thought. This type of perception has shed a positive light on our group's work because we have come to know each other and have been able to work together by not making snap judgments or perceptions. As a group, whenever we are working on our project, I have found that the best type of decision-making process that has worked well for all of us is when we make decisions based on rationality. Every time the group is faced with a problem I do everything that I can to rationally think of a solution in order to positively progress our group work. Rational decision-making has definitely been a positive influence to me and to my group.

Blog Entry #2 by Brad Harris

When we completed the self-assessments, it said that I am an outgoing, live for the moment, unconventional and spontaneous type of person. I feel that those are true for the most part. When it comes down to our group work, I think all of the group members will be willing to go out of their way to get this project completed on time. I agree with what Justin said about him being a responsible, dependable and persistent person and how it is really playing a positive role in our group. He has sort of taken the position as group leader in a very uncontrolling manner and it is a valuable asset to our group I believe. For example, I missed last discussion section due to an illness and he was the first person to email me back and let me know what I had missed.

My goal is for this project to be completed in a timely fashion with every group member participating equal amounts. So far, I believe all our group members have positive attitudes towards the project and I believe that as long as we keep meeting our deadlines that we have set out ahead of time that we will have no problem finishing this project. I feel like there will be little conflict, if any, in our group. I think my attitude towards the group overall is very positive and feel that things couldn't be any better right now. Like I said, we are meeting our deadlines and on track.

Blog Entry #2 by Justin Speich

Throughout the course of this project my dominant personality traits have come full circle in helping to achieve a dynamic multimedia project with my group members. My conscientious personality has played a very large role in how I've been able to give my full effort into this project. As being a person with a conscientious personality I am equipped with such traits as responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented, all of which I feel have played a positive role on our project and have also projected positive attitudes out of my group members. I feel that my responsibility and my strive to achieve are the two traits that have played the greatest role so far because by being responsible I have proved to my group members that I will not falter on this project and that I have everyones back when it comes to meeting deadlines for our project. My achievement personality trait has also been very positive for us as a group because we all are sharing a common goal while doing this project with the overall initiative to achieve it, my strive to achieve I feel is something that my group members can see in me and that they feed off of that energy, which creates a very positive element within the group itself.

Also, through my Jungian 16-type personality test I have found that I am outgoing, a visionary, and a natural leader. These traits have helped me on a positive level with this project because I feel that these traits are what keeps me motivated on this project. Even though I was qualified as someone as a natural leader I think that everyone at one point or another has taken or will take a leadership role because one person can't lead every aspect of a project when there are certain areas that outside their area of expertise. Since everyone is going to have a leadership role in this project it is going to create a more positive atmosphere for our project because giving someone leadership shows them that you trust them and hold them in a high regard, which brings out the best in people.

Blog Entry #1 by Aaron Schrage

As a group I believe that our attitude is very positive because we are goal-oriented and want to achieve the best grade possible. Everyone has been very cooperative with eachothers suggestions and opinions on this subject matter which helped us gel as one. Everyone's head is in the right place and that is key to the success of our project. Along with what Brad said, as a group we don't want the group or an individual to fall behind in the project. We want to all be on the same page the whole time so that we can get the best result.



As for the cognitive behavior it is determined by how much belief you show for a topic, which we all believe that we will work as hard as possible to get this project completed. Next is affect behavior which is the emotional or feeling about a topic,which we all have a strong attitude towards "Going Green". Lastly, behavior component is the intention to behave in a certain way towards someone or something, which we are all working together as a team to finish this project.

Blog Entry #1 by Brad Harris

Attitude is definitely going to play a role in completing this project. So far, I feel like our group has had a positive attitude towards completing the weekly tasks and milestones. We want to make sure we don't put this project off until the last minute and I think everyone's positive attitude towards keeping that goal will play a major role in making this project go smoothly and completing it on time. I think we have a motivated group so I don't see there being a problem with this project.

There are three main components of attitude: cognitive, affective and behavioral. Cognitive is basically the way you feel about something, how you describe something or how you view something. Affective is the emotional state of how you feel. Being "angry" or "happy" is the affective component. The behavioral is the action you will take that was affected by your emotional state. Each component flows into the next. Cognitive flows into the affective component which flows into the behavioral action.

I think that Justin was very accurate in describing what our group is like. I think the mentality and hard work ethic that Justin was speaking of will without a doubt help our group through the project. I have no doubt that our group will be successful in completing this project and receive an above average grade overall.

Blog Entry #1 by Justin Speich

My attitude towards our group project has played a positive role so far in the sense that my upbeat mentality and hard working ethic have helped make this project progress over the course of the past couple of weeks and has also created a cohesive bond between my group members and I. On the cognitive level, my attitude about the project was that it was something I could manage and that I could relate to the overall aspect of what the project was trying to teach me about group work in the business world. This cognition helped create the affective part of my attitude on the project, which, so far, has been an upbeat feeling about the project. This, has in turn created an overall positive behavior in me when my group members and I are working on the project together.