Pandemic Reflection

Teamwork is the process of collaborating and combining ideas to form one single idea. Team members work together to accomplish a common goal. Working in a team can be extremely difficult due to the different personalities, behaviors, experiences, cultures, etc. For this assignment, we were assigned to play the boardgame Pandemic. In this game we worked together to cure the world from 4 diseases that were attacking humanity. The purpose was to save the world, and we had to work together as a team to make this happen. This activity allowed us to understand each other better as individuals, and to engage in teamwork. As a group we all had to cooperate and work together to accomplish a specific task, in this case saving humanity. Conflict arose …show more content…
Communications was one of the key concepts that we worked on. A lot of us were confused, and only one of our members truly understood the game. He was able to clarify questions and this allowed all of us to get the chance to give our input. This confusion allowed all of us to cooperate because we realized that we all had to work as a team to win, rather than actually having to compete against each other. Overall, the game had us applying actual skills in order to solve our conflicts as a team, and to attempt to save the world …show more content…
I was definitely intimidated towards the beginning when our professor was explaining the directions to the class along with describing all the complex rules and regulations. As a team, there was no doubt that we struggled to figure out what exactly our approach to the game was and what our strategy to execute. There was so much information that we needed to retain from reading the directions that it often times lagged the flow of the game. We constantly had to research specific instructions online or watch tutorials that would give us a little more direction. In general, Pandemic was a game that challenged us to work together and find solutions to something that we had absolutely no knowledge of. It forced us to communicate with one another because the game required every member to participate and contribute in some way. I think that it was a great learning experience and because the game put us in a contrasting environment from the classroom, we had the opportunity to bond and connect on a more personal