Small group praises

Now that all the research has been completed the next stage of our campaign is to decide our goals, objectives, and tactics. For this stage we broke our normal team of 11 into three small groups.

I found these small groups to be much more productive. After an initial brainstorming session, each group took a goal and created objectives for that goal. The numbers of objectives varied from five to 20, so we had to do some work to even them out and get a reasonable number for each goal.

The brainstorming and final decisions came from the group as a whole, but the small groups were great to accomplish the work in between these major meetings.

I was in a group with three other students for deciding on objectives. Between the four of us we were able to hash out a good number of possibilities and discuss the pros and cons of each. The smaller number allowed everyone to contribute and also cut down on the useless talk that a larger group can get sidetracked with.

By using smaller groups we were able to accomplish more in the same time frame and move on the the next stage of the campaign.