PEER REVIEW ASSIGNMENT

Challenge & Selection

I am a 2nd year Undergraduate student studying mechanical engineering. Being a part of one of the  dramatics club of my institute we have a huge number of people that make a play possible so its  usual for us to have a lot of ideas on the table but we have difficulties in selecting the best of them.  The first tool I used was the tool of Visualization to achieve a shared understanding of a problem. I  learned a few things from the video in ‘Visualization Tools’ and used a bit of storytelling as well. This  helped the team to reach a common ground.

Application

During the pandemic I got the opportunity to be the director for one of the upcoming plays. The  script chosen was of my choice thus I was comfortable with it. After a few days of practice when we  realised that the cast was struggling to depict their character nicely it was decided that we will  conduct one on one sessions with all the team members and ask them about the problems they  were facing. This session turned out to be really helpful.  We could tackle their problems at an  individual level. The primary issue was that what we as directors had imagined was not what they as  the cast had imagined hence all the team members had a different visual of what the play will look  like. We sat with them and told everyone individually about our ideas about the play, how it will  look, what kind of music will be used, etc. This helped them visualize the play in the same way as us.  We even asked for their opinions and ideas towards the end of session as we wanted to incorporate  their ideas as well. This was a good step we took.

Insight

What I have learned from conducting this exercise is that we should not be scared of the problem at  hand and tackle it in a calm and composed way. It was a great idea to conduct the one on one  session as it helped all the members reach a common ground and it turned out to be a bonding  period as well !

Approach

What I would do differently next time is that I won’t wait for such an issue to rise up to the level  where individual sessions were necessary. I would tackle the problem early so it gives us more time  to implement our new ideas.

