First of all, I was very surprised about what the professor offered to us. For a second, I even did not recognize what he was offering there… We could decide how to treat our results for the exam?
After I recognized what we were exactly talking about, I was so surprised about everybody’s suggestions, such as making a curve and dropping the lowest grade for the exam. I thought, “That is too much. He will not let us do that.” However, he did say that he would accept our decisions as long as all students accepted it!! Finally, we came to a good resolution. Honestly, I was so surprised about what was going on.
The method I used to contribute to our decision was “Avoidance” since I thought “It seems like most people have the same interest as myself, and I should not make this chaos bigger.” We had a very limited time to reach our goal. Under these circumstances, “Avoidance” seemed to be one of the best ways, especially when your personal interest is the same as the majority’s interest.
I think that we could have more respected minority interests, and I especially admired what Joey did. Not everybody can show disagreement under these circumstances and not every word was respectful for minority ideas.
I believe that controlling one’s emotion or display more emotional intelligence and maturity is very important during meetings like that. Especially in business meetings, if one cannot control emotions and/or concentrate to achieve a goal, one most likely looses. Moreover, someone who lost emotional control tends to show a disrespectful attitude toward others. I loose my respect for anyone who does not respect other people.
