The 'decision making' class that we've recently had was definetly an awesome experience. I've kind of had a feeling from the start of class that this wasn't just a free for all "let's decide on our next test" class. It had a hidden purpose behind it. This was definelty one of the most chaotic classes I've ever had in Baruch. I was certain that we'd end up throwing chairs at each other at some point because we didn't agree on whether or not the class wanted an essay on their next test. Awkwardly enough we still managed to pull it off in the end, even though there were some unsattisfied customers in the room.
Looking back, I can definelty see myself as being the "Avoidance" type of the individuall in this decision making exercise. As a matter of fact I think almost 90% of the people in this exercise could be classified under this behavior. However I wasn't avoiding the conversation as a whole because of the fact that I don't like chaos or don't know how to held it. The reason behind my thinking was that our whole class had agreed on the curve and extra credit for the first test in the beginning of class, and I quite frankly didn't mind what kind of format the next test was going to be. So I decided to stay out of the overall conversation of the next exam, even though I eventually chipped in some thoughts here and there.
Of course I observed the other ways that people handled this chaos. There were quite a few Compete to Win people who didn't want to budge no matter how well the decisions being made were explained to them. The few people that were standing in front of the room could probably be classified as the Compramising few. And even though they did a fairly good job, the resistance from the overall class made it tough for them to make the comprimises. In terms of accomodation and collaborating, I didn't see much of that in the midst of our chaos.
Overally I think that we did fairly well considering no one knew what was the foundation for the class.
