Mission Statement

My Mission Statement: Craig Jenkins

I am at my best when I am feeling good as in mind, body, and soul..
I will try to prevent times when I am feeling irritated and unable to focus..
I will enjoy my work by finding employment where I can I love to help new people exceed like I had people help me exceed. .
I will find enjoyment in my personal life through being the bread winner in the family. I like to support my family and make sure they will not need anything especially if I can help it.
I will find opportunities to use my natural talents and gifts such as Accommodating, Customer Service, Friend, Good Husband, Accepting.
I can do anything I set my mind to. I will take my wife and I and to another country but besides that I would start a business. This business would be able to help people in our country and still be profitable.
My life's journey is to help anyone and everyone I can but there are two many ways a person actually needs to be helped. I will focus my journey on helping people in my community with education and everyday living and expenses. I am not saying that I would pay for everything because that would not help them in the long run. It would be more of a consulting for Free to the people in my community. Show them how to survive and how to raise their children in this day and age. .
I will be a person who is loving to their family and friends. I will be someone that is greatly missed but also greatly appreciated in what I have left behind. I do not want to live this world and have family that will be struggling when I am gone. I hope that my long time friends, co-workers, and of family will be there..
My most important future contribution to others will be my biggest contribution to my family and friends would be the knowledge and assets I pass down.
I will stop procrastinating and start working on:

  • I must change the way my family associates with each other. They seem to be get more distant as the time passes, either because of crazy family members or just ones that are not in their right mind at this time. I would like to show them what family really means.

I will strive to incorporate the following attributes into my life:

  • Calm and Calculating
  • Caring
  • Respectful

I will constantly renew myself by focusing on the four dimensions of my life:

  • Eat Healthy, Exercise
  • Commit more to my spiritual well-being
  • Think positively
  • Interact with people

Six relevant background factors that are part of Tubbs Model of small group Interaction.

Chapter 3 Relevant Background Factors provides 6 factors personality, gender, age, health, attitudes, and values. Each of these factors affect the way a group will interact and can help or hurt the progression of that groups goals. In a couple cases they studied what effects a person to be who they are or how they act. There were two thoughts, nature and/or genetics and both have great research to support these thoughts. The chapter explained how certain actions could be dictated by the environment but other actions could be dictated by DNA. Overall something’s may be inherited but ultimately it comes down to the person’s environment. People can come out a certain way or be hard wired from birth but they will change to survive in the environment. This will affect them positively or negatively but is usually the deciding factor.

Diversity is a leading factor in group interaction but can be clouded at times dues to confrontation. The chapter advises that if people from the same group or culture are in a meeting they will tend to agree with each other. While people from different cultures will be more apt to have different options on a subject which can have a better result. The problem would be to have them focus on that problem and have the ability to come at it from different viewpoints. Diversity is directly connected to the 6 factors that Tubbs has been speaking about.

Chapter three explains that companies are moving towards have multilingual people in their organization and even have English as a second language. They explained that businesses need to keep up with the diversity in the United States and others. This can create conflict in the work environment but is ultimately beneficial for the company. Chapter three advises that there are six dimensions that help distinguish people: “Universalism, (rules, laws, and generalizations), Individualism, (personal freedom, human rights, and competiveness), Specificity, (automatic, reductive, analytic, objective), Achieved status, (what you’ve done; your track record), Inner direction, (conscience and conviction are located inside), Sequential time, (time is a race along a set course).” (Turner and Trompenaars, 2000) In the first part of this chapter it explains that there will be many challenges with a diverse group and for this book a Small Group Interaction it would in the long run would be more successful.

Abraham Maslow Need Hierarchy, shows that people need certain things to have what he called “Self-actualization”. There is Physiological, security, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. This shows that people or humans have needs but they may not come exactly in the order that Abraham Maslow has shown on his table in figure 3.1 on page 118, (A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction), but these needs do need to be met to have the employee, co-worker, family member etc.. Feel accepted or motivated for the task. People want to be secure and they have the need to be accepted a part of a group. Even people that seem to be alone would rather be in a group but do not know how to initiate that process of being accepted in a group.

Chapter three states that personalities is what makes a group and finding the right people with the right personalities to come together is important. Inclusion is the most interesting discussion I saw in this chapter. It explains how important inclusion is to a group and the people in the group. Imagine there are five people in a group and everyone felt included but one or two people. That group would not be considered a positive group and probably will lack in producing positive results. There are many people in that do not feel the inclusion in groups but the opposite “exclusion”. This will affect the group but also giving it sometime can affect that person directly and pushing deeper down to being “excluded”. Chapter explains in detail how certain diversity’s being excluded can affect a business or other aspects of daily lives.

Chapter three explains that if a group does not have a leader before they get together, someone will state their dominance and become something of a dictator. In these situations it’s hard to focus on what they will actually need to do. If they have a project it is then the responsibility of that leader who so kindly invited his leadership to delicate work. A better example of a group would be a designation of leaders from different levels, example; Managers, supervisors, subordinates. This way everyone has a set job and the ability to communicate if there is any issues or information missing that is key to the success of that particular group. Ultimately there will always be someone or some others that will automatically look to control the group but everyone needs to work together if they want the project to be successful.

Gender role has been around for thousands of year and seems to be steadily changing in the woman’s favor. Gender is also a way to have a diverse company if there were just males working at a company, the company would be ran by the same type of people in a way. It is recommended to have much diversity as possible if it can be controlled in a positive way. Each gender has a way of communicating which is shown in Table 3.5, (Gamble and Gamble, 2003). Each have these positives and negatives, feminine speech, and masculine speech. If they can be combined in a positive way it would come out with the best results. There would have to be some give and take or in other words “compromising”, but it would be beneficial. There are many aspects to consider and chapter three has gone over the main factors to have a successful small group interaction with diversity being directly involved.

In chapter three it explains that agent be a big factor in a successful group interaction. We have younger people that come out of college and do not understand how everything may work but they were successful in school. They will have to adapt to the corporate world if they want to be successful. Older generation will at times want to stay in their old ways which can make it hard for new ideas or even implementing those new ideas.

In chapter 3 they show that health can be a factor in group interaction but is not always the case. If it is the case then this will affect the input and or course the output of the meeting or projective. This could even lead other people to pick up the slack and that means more pressure on those few to produce. Being unhealthy even from a disease like diabetes or some other ailment can affect the outcome sometimes prolong the project or miss the deadline. It’s important to keep on top of a person’s health for their well-being and for the benefit of the group.

Attitudes seem to always be a deciding factor on how a meeting will go, this chapter explains the meanings behind these attitudes, positive and/or negative. Of course the positive attitudes would excel more but working with the negatives attitudes over time could create a very strong group that could possibly stand up next to the positive group. The chapter states and with my own experience fined this to be true; it’s hard to change someone’s attitude. This chapter has shown illustrations of “attitude balance”, and “attitude imbalance versus balance”.

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