Titles

Another point about running any group of people was the need for “titles”. One of the most interesting aspects I took away from this project was the need for some sort of job positions. At the start, our group lacked specific job titles making meetings nearly pointless as they took a long time, and a lot less was actually “done”. At the second meeting, our group began to delegate jobs. Some were in charge of interviews, others about the history, and another was in charge of relating themes back to past readings like Tocqueville. At this point our group became much more productive. For the next few weeks we each performed our jobs, reporting back every few weeks to the group in meetings.

This was an extremely productive way to delegate the workload and to get the work we needed done on time. In addition, job titles make people reliable for that information. Since they had the title and it was written down, people “woke up” to do their portions since they were responsible for them. Overall, delegating was the best way for our group to make this project come together.