survivor blog 03-getting to crunch time

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In this weeks challenge, each tribe was split into two groups. This challenge was quite simple compared to the other challenges. Each team of five would have one member face off against the other teams member on a shaky beam where they would try and knock the other person off with a long stick. It reminded me of a ghetto version of American Gladiator. I am probably one of the only people in the class to understand this ancient reference but that is basically the idea of it. So in the challenge, there really wasn’t any type of leadership and this chapter is all about leadership. I don’t feel like anyone really wanted to emerge as a leader this week since everyone had their own agenda.

Jon and Jacklyn joined Jeremy’s alliance and Reed was trying regain his strength after Josh was eliminated.  Jeremy won and gave up his spot to Jon and Jacklyn on the reward but just to show his loyalty to the alliance. While Jeremy was on Exile Island, he sat in the rain and got kind of paranoid that Jon had found the Idol. At the same time, Jon was worried about Jeremy for the same thing. Reed searched through Keiths bag and found some instructions to playing a hidden immunity idol. He went and told Missy, Baylor and Jacklyn in order to instigate some problems.  In chapter 9, they talk about ” The Single Question Format,”  which was developed by Frank LaFosta and Carl Larson. This is a simple problem-solving procedure that is the way that successful decision makers think. It involves a single question format; Identify the Problem, Create a Collaborative Setting and Analyzing the Issue. I feel like all of the group members from each tribe failed to use these steps and even if one or two of them did, they did it in a manipulative way that would only help that one person.

So in my opinion, this episode pretty much brought out the worst in everyone’s personality and showed how everyone acts when it is “Getting Down to Crunch Time.”

Wrinkle in the Plan

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Last week, Julie decided to quit the game because she felt left out because her boyfriend was voted off previously. Missy is upset about this because she put a “wrinkle in the plan” that everyone was supposed to vote Josh out.

Now that they have merged into one tribe, Huyopa, separates into two different teams for their reward challenges. This weeks reward: taco bar. If I were on this show and my reward was a taco bar, I would try a lot harder win and be really disappointed in myself if my team lost. LOL! Missy was not chosen for a team, so she had to sit out and not have the chance to try for the taco bar.

Jeremy notes that Keith wanted to vote Julie off if they had gone to tribal council, but Jeremy knows that all of Keith’s alliances were against him and had planned to vote him out if they had gone to tribal council.

Again, Josh tries to recruit Baylor to be part of his alliance. He says that she owes him because he saved her in the beginning of the game. Baylor feels blackmailed by Josh’s invite as his alliance. And then Josh turns it onto Missy, saying that she controls what Baylor does. Which I think is just his way to get out of “being wrong,” always coming up with excuses.

The girls at camp are so concerned with what the guys are doing, and I hate it. Instead of them just getting along and accepting each other, the girls are annoyed that the guys always want help with different chores around camp, when I feel like everyone should be contributing.

Despite Josh trying to form alliances, he is voted out this week! He and Baylor had an almost equal amount of votes, Josh: 6 and Baylor: 5.

blindsided

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I was so furious with this episode. Jeremy is so kind and s such a team player. He tritely plays for the heart of the game and believes in doing what is right. Unfortunately Missy and Baylor think John is the bees knees and join him in his false alliance. Join is so selfish and only cats about him and his gf. I don’t know how no one can see that. Jeremy shows trust and commitment and John is filled with conniving plans. Needless to say I was extremely disappointed. Apparently it’s every man for himself.

Blog Post #8

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Leadership has been shown throughout the season of survivor, in each episode there is different person who showed a leadership and some were stronger than others. In episode 9 Jeremy is elected of the show and this was a smart move by the rest tribe members that remained.  Jeremy was a strong leader he had great communication skills, was a good team player and possessed good communication skills and knowledge of the game. I think that many of his team mates saw him as a threat if he remained in the show and decided to boot him out.

In survivor we see people trying to be nice to try to make it to the end, For example Natalie and Jeremy giving their reward to Jon and Jaclyn to save them in time of the votes. But we seen it before and we see it again no one is there for anyone but themselves, so at the end of the day your last day could be any day no matter what friends you make in the game or what type of leader you are, your spot in the game is not guaranteed.

Jon and Jacklyn have shown huge leadership roles for the fact that they have basically determined the outcome of the past  4 tribal councils, I don’t understand this because they are not the only couple that is left in the game for people to be listening to them or trying to win them over for their votes. Jon and Jacklyn have a big influence in the past few episodes and I think the rest of the tribe members don’t realize that there is only 2 of them, if they want to strategize they need to find a way to vote one of them off in tribal council before its too late and they take home the winning prize!

blog post #8 chapter 5

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On this episode of survivor “Gettin’ To Crunch Time” the show started out with tensions higher then ever since on the last elimination contestants decided to vote out Josh leaving Reed furious and looking for a new game plan. In this episode I thought that Jeremy and Nadia showed a good example of leadership since they made the conscious decision in trading spots as the winners with John and his girl friend. I thought this was a good strategic decision for Jeremy and Nadia.

A competitor that i think has a lot of personal power would have to be John since through out this episode he has been the one that everyone has been trying to side with since he has been able to establish so much status within the group.  Another thing I been seeing a lot of is task structure within the group. I’d have to say that its more of a chaotic and disorganized form since no one really knew what what was really happening within the tribe. So when it came to elimination everyone was bumping heads and fighting with each other. Also, in this episode I thought that Nadia was the one depicting member readiness since she was the one who seemed to be the most loyal to her original alliance who was Jeremy. In my opinion I thought that Nadia was confident and very committed to Jeremy. I was very shocked to see Jeremy be the one to go home tonight and I really hope that Reed is the next to go home.

Survivor Episode 8 chapter 5

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The previous episode ended in a way that i haven’t seen before. When Julie quit it really threw a wrench in most of the blue tribe members plans. The tribe is freaking out due to the fact that their previous plans to get either Jeramey or Josh off the islands. The first challenge in the episode was very physically challenging. The tribes were both mixed for this activity and the yellow team was way ahead the entire time and keep it strong till the end and finished before the competing team. There were no clear leaders in the activity but you could hear the positivity that they were supporting each other with. It proved to be a the winning motivation. Most individual and couple strategies are based on personal power rather than position power because each member or couple wants to have earned status within their tribe. Whereas positional power is dependent upon every member of the tribe doing their job. The winning team sent John to exile islands where he found an idol making him a definite leader that carries weight within the groups voting decisions. The guys in the blue tribe are getting on the nerves of the women on the team with their rude manners. Jacklyn is showing her true colors with the women and possible a women alliance in the near future. On the individual immunity challenge Jeramey won keeping himself out of the soon to vote and the two main leaders now have become Josh and Jackelyn. In this episodes tribal council Josh was voted out. Josh was a main leader and a big threat to the rest of the tribe members. John and jacklyn were the swing votes. There is a huge power struggle between two groups with the tribe and it was clear who was in each tribe expect when it came down to where John and Jacklyn stood. Power in the book is defined as ” the ability or authority to influence and motivate others.”

Blog post #8 Chapter 5

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The episode “Gettin’ To Crunch Time” had many intense moments. Leadership was brought in when Jon had the idol and decided to lie by saying that he didn’t have it so that Jeremy can  look like a lie and he can choose to do what he wants with everyone else. In my opinion Jon could of made another strategic decision by telling everyone that he had an idol so that Jeremy wouldn’t have to look for it and so that he can have everyone’s trust and look even better. Jon thought he would have the power if his strategy of making Jeremy look like a lie worked because everyone can look at Jeremy and wrong to vote him out. I would say that Jeremy was the relationship-motivated leader because even though he didn’t really have an alliance with anyone but Natalie he wanted to build an alliance with Jon and Kelly by giving them the reward he earned.

The task motivated leader would be Bailor because she managed to win the challenge with her feet. The group is having difficulties with one another and she able to be the task motivated leader. Member readiness was played out in this episode when the members knew that Josh had left from the previous episode and they saw a great competitor leave the game. I think that the group members gained confidence and felt like they had better chances of playing the game better by having someone competitive leave. This episode was really good and I hope that the next episode gets even more intense.

 

 

 

 

Eppy 8

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What a shock to see Jeremy voted off. Granted I was not his biggest fan, I definitely didn’t see his alliance betraying him. Especially with the leadership skills he greatly portrayed among them.

From the first episode, he took charge forming an alliance, knowing what the end goal was, determined to get there. He led by example by volunteering to go to exile island and making constant sacrifices for his alliance like giving up his award with Natalie to John and Jaclyn. He has always shown leadership styles so to see him get turned against was definitely a surprise.

Leadership is found in a person who guides and takes control which Jeremy easily did. This was a strong suit of his but unfortunately, it wasn’t enough of a strategy to win.

Survivor Blog 8

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During this late stage of the game leadership becomes a big deal, leading alliances is key to making progress to the end of the game and ultimately accomplishing their goal of victory. In the latest episode two members of the winning team of the reward challenge gave up their positions on a yacht with food and drinks to two members of the losing team. They played this off as a caring gift when in actuality they used it as a strategic maneuver. By gifting their reward to two members that were not yet in their alliance they gained favor with them and solidified their support in the upcoming votes. It also gave them the ability to vote one of their own members onto exile island to try and find the hidden immunity Idol to benefit their allegiance.  Not only was this a bold play in the game it was a strong showing of leadership by the two members that sacrificed their reward for the betterment of their alliance.

Many other aspects of this game show a laissez-faire style of leadership in the groups, even with the formation of alliances the dissolution of the two groups into one single group makes the group more of a free for all. Although they all strive for one goal it is mutually exclusive, only one of them may win, and so no one is obligated to work together for objectives. Therefore when it comes to meeting needs of the group on the island decisions are often left to the individual and the group no longer seems to be concerned about reaching a consensus on what actions to take for the group. The only agreements the groups try to make at this point in the game is who they will vote to remove from the islands and even this is ultimately left up to each individual survivor.

Jeremy, the leader.

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This episode, we got to see what happens when a leadership position is vacated. With the exit of Josh, Reed was the obvious emergent leader to take his place for that side of the tribe, though his leadership didn’t seem very organized throughout this episode. A game was played where one member tries to knock off the other into a pool of mud. The reward for the winning team was a trip on a yacht with sandwiches and drinks. The yellow team won the challenge. Both Jeremy and Natalie gave up their rewards to John and Jaclyn.

This demonstrated a portion of the 5M model of leadership effectiveness in how Jeremy contributed to group motivation. Since John and Jaclyn switched to his team in the last episode, he appropriately rewarded the members of his group for their contribution to the group. Natalie stated that the reason for them trading was because they showed loyalty and they wanted to reward them for that loyalty. This also showed some model leadership qualities as well. The reward was a way of praising them for their contribution. One of the ways to model leadership is to publicly praise group members not only within the group but also to others outside the group. This was very prevalent in this moment.

When reading the chapter, I also found the section about gender in leadership very interesting and relevant in this episode. Men have been the primary leaders in the most recent episodes. Even Natalie is seen as a support to Jeremy even though she displays some of the same leadership characteristics.