I am impressed with the work done by all of my group members on our community service project for the Lafayette Urban Ministry. I have had the opportunity to experience the characteristics of a decision-making group (ch.1).Everyone has had useful suggestions in which we used to put ideas together into a cohesive and workable proposal. It was interesting to see how each group member shared past knowledge and experiences and collaborated them all together to aid our group’s decision-making process. Today our group had to "make a certain choices from among several alternatives. The group discussed what the possible choices were, realized the consequences of the choices, and then selected the best alternative that best met the goal" for our community service project. Our group has done a good job with dealing and fading away from false consensuses. Everyone tends to agree on ideas proposed and choose to share with the other members of the group without keeping suggestions to themeselves. Of course there are disagreements, however, we are good at weighing out the best possible decsions. The advantage of our style of decision making is that it leads to a high degree of buy-in and commitment to the decision by all members of the group. 4 Guys and A Girl have been actively involved in the decision making process and all of our interests are addressed.

--Julian L. Stevens--