Reflective organizer
As a reflective organizer, I am more of a thinker who has brilliant at making theories and unrelenting reasoning. I always love solving patterns and paying attention to the different behaviors of people as well as I have the ability to read people, which makes it easy for me to be a leader since people find it hard to lie to me. I am mostly very original, independent, and unconventional, and I do not value traditional objectives, such as being popular and insecure. In environments where I have opportunities to expand my creativity, there is nothing that can limit my creativity, and I always offer sensible and unbiased logic (Shaki & Khoshsaligheh, 2017). When it comes to studies, I am very creative, imaginative as well as introspective with the ability to solve complex topics and mostly focus on the future rather than the present. I highly value intelligence and knowledge, new ideas, and theories, although I am not very well equipped with other individuals’ emotional requirements.
Having a thinker’s personality has negative and positive impacts on my interest areas concerning the group organizing framework. The way I understand and perceive others in my group depends on their position within, which affect how the group interacts and exists. Been a thinker impacts my interest and assumption about community organizing structure positively since it makes me recognize issues affecting the community, the expected change, and ways to engage people who are passionate about the issues (Zavala & Henning, 2017). The negative effect is that being a thinker, I am mostly very independent, original, and unconventional, which makes it hard for me to engage other people who are passionate about community issues. My personality may also affect my decision making concerning strategies that I may use as an organizer. As a thinker, I mostly make decisions depending on reasoning and not the emotion since I am more focused on facts and not protecting people’s emotions. Additionally, my personality may make the strategies that I use as an organizer to be more open, flexible, and spontaneous since I mostly like to adapt and join activities easily.
In my organizing group, we had six members and the group leader, where we divided into categories of two, and each category had to play a different role within the group. As the organizing group leader, I understand that the group has to be distributed fairly, and the work carried out has to be balanced among the team members. Different roles across the group were distributed fairly to ensure that all the group members work with what they are good at and what makes them more satisfied. When it comes to organizing group processes, I was the one who was mainly involved in organizing the group activities and paying attention to all the members of the group. When we were not together, we mostly communicated using our phones, and when the group was together, we ensured that all group members were given equal opportunities to speak or give their points. Group decisions were made, considering that they would not affect other group members and focused on achieving the group’s objective, improving the relationship between members and the group’s personal requirements. I liked the group because all the group members encouraged each other when facing complex challenges. My group’s main challenge was improper meeting time arrangements since most of the group members were late during group meetings, and luckily the group did not face any major conflict among the group members. With time, we came to understand that all the member has to be active and be given equal opportunities to participate in the group for a group activity to be successful. Been in this group has enabled me to be able to learn how to work with other individuals who have different viewpoints of the same theory we were solving, although I found it very hard to adapt to working with other members of the group who needed emotional support.
Been a thinker, my personality could have affected my interaction with the group members since I am mostly quiet, self-sufficient, and usually think of socializing as draining my energy. I am normally not good at handling other individuals’ emotional needs, which could have affected my interaction with other group members. While working in a new campaign as a community developer, one of the strengths that I will be experiencing is that I will easily face new challenges in the campaign since I am always excited about new theories. One of the challenges that I may face in the Champaign course is my personality of being an introvert since I have to interact and communicate with different people. As a community organizer, I have to work with my group members to make public officials responsible, and I also have to operate with citizens to recognize the challenges they face and assist them in implementing strategies that can help them. With the personality of a thinker, I will be able to easily create strategies that can assist the citizens in facing their challenges.
As an organizer, I have come to understand that you have to be very flexible, creative, and excellent at providing leadership skills. Throughout this semesters course, I have come to learn that as an organizer, communicate, mobilize, and educate individuals on how to make sense of themselves. Now I can describe the theory of change as an important way of describing and illustrating how and why a wanted change is predicted to occur (Mayne, 2017). To have organizations and groups that can change our communities, ‘ individuals must first be taught how to work together and get things done in the community. As a community organizer, I am responsible for ensuring that people in the community can work together to change their community.
Reference
Mayne, J. (2017). Theory of change analysis: Building robust theories of change. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 32(2)
Shaki, R., & Khoshsaligheh, M. (2017). Personality type and translation performance of Persian translator trainees. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(2), 360-370.
Zavala, M., & Henning, N. (2017). The role of political education in teachers’ formation as community organizers: Lessons from a grassroots activist organization. Urban Education, 0042085917727574.