Negoitating the brief!

Thursday 21st October


On Tuesday 19^th October there was a meeting with Mr Chatton and my group members who are as follows James Collett, Jurgen Hadjini and I.  My team was in dialog with Mr Chatton which was successful. On the agenda there was a range of subjects to choose from on which our group wanted to negotiate with, so as a team we decided to focus on 6-8 images on a page.
Me and my group co-operated with each other well and decided on who would be most suitable for different roles. As they are required skills for different roles.


My performance


During my group meeting we all co-operated well and worked well as a team. I think that personally on my performance it wasn't very effective as I didn't get involved much in the group and also I got easily confused. As an outcome of this as Mr Chatton was asking my questions I didn't understand. So my team member James took over and helped me so this was a positive. As he kept the group going by negotiating with Mr Chatton.  In the future I think that next time when we have a task like this I will make sure that I co-operate with the group. I also didn't have an expected outcome which didn't have a big effect on the group because my role was the negtiator but as I got confused, lost and didn't have a plan this didnt' work to well. James did a lot of work within the group and took the role on last minute as the negotiator. He also had another role aswell as that which was the blogger. I took down notes when James was talking because I thought that if I look back and read them, then this will be helpful. I enjoyed working with my group, I just think that we could of been more prepared and focused than what we was. Looking back at the video it looked like I didn't participate at all, which isn't good because now I will have no evidence of me taking part.


Group performance


At first our group worked really well together, we decided who was doing what role and got on with it. The only problem was within our group was that we all went independant which means that loads of things was going on. So this is where the team members in the group got confused and didn't know what we was talking about. I think that next time my group and I should make sure that the people we have chose for the roles are suitable enough for the role. As myself wasn't ready to be the negotiator and I was the one that should of been most aware in the task, as my role was the main one talking. James worked really well, he was focused with his role and was aware of what he was doing. I think that James should of been the negotiator as the role was more sutiable for him. I think that in the future for me and my group I should particpate more with my group and social alot more to make sure that I know what I am doing. Jurgen didn't do too much observing which his role was an observer. My group and I tried really hard to get the Win-Win with Mr Chatton but he was positive with his decision. We tried compromising with Mr Chatton but his decsion was final.
Feedback for Elliot's Group
I think that Elliot's group did well, as there subject was to discuss the deadline for the brochure. What their group was proposing to Mr Chatton was acceptable. As Elliot said that he thinks the 1st Febuary would be the best time to have the brochure advertised as it would get past chrismas and the January sales. Mr Chatton was adament with having the brochure out before christmas as people would be looking around for Bikes for children for christmas, as they would be idea christmas presents. Also Mr Chatton doesn't want to change the prices of the bicycles so if the brochure was advertised any later in the year then it would mean it going in the January or christmas sales. This would lead to the You Need Cycles company not making a profit. Even though their agenda hasn't be confirmed Mr Chatton has asked Elliot to email their proposition and he will have a think of considering it.

Amending Negotiation skills with Mr Chatton

In todays lesson we watched a clip on Negotiation skills. We had to write down on paper what we identified in the clip. Based on negoation skills, in the video I verified two people at a business meeting.

Current working progress

Current progress of work

Green- Strengths
Red- Weaknesses
Blue- Improvements

Currently I have begun to produce my Gant chart. I have never created a Gant chart before this is my first attempt.

Areas of improvement

I think that next time I would send out more than one letter as the one that I sent I didn’t get a reply of the company. So if I sent a few out then at least out of the three one of them would of replied and posted me a brochure.

Meeting one, I think that I could have got more involved in the meeting and produce more information for the group.  During this meeting Mr Chatton said a good source of information that helped me after I identified the hardware’s that only certain hardware’s will be available in the school.

Meeting two I felt more confident in this meeting in form with progression and discussing the ICT tools. Also what hardware and software is available along with the possible and alternative solutions. A weakness with this meeting was that the meeting was meant to be scheduled for 45 minutes and in those 45 minutes we didn’t finish the meeting. So in future for meetings what could be improved is having less information on the agenda and the allocated time for the meeting to be increased to an hour. This would allow the meeting to be complete successfully and in full instead of skipping points to make sure that the meeting is finished.

Mr Chatton also provided us with further reading, to complete the information that we missed out on.

I have now completed two meetings with Mr Chatton, in first we found out all of the exact tasks that we will be carrying out and all of the deadlines for the tasks. In the second meeting we discussed all of the hardware’s and software’s. Also the alternative and possible solutions.

The weaknesses which I have identified would be trying to collect or receive brochures from other companies. They’re not reliable enough and don’t always get back to you, this way i wasn’t receiving my brochure. Also it still hasn’t the arrived the brochure i requested, I don’t think now it will either.

The strengths which I identified is that over the past few lessons we have been working towards the Gant chart. This will allow me to keep track of my progess and make me a time keeper with my work.