Chapter 5 Leadership

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This episode ties into chapter five on leadership in the text by the different leaders forming within the group. After Josh got voted off the island, Reed was struggling to stay in the game. Although every member is competing individually, the members are still keeping their alliance to keep themselves in the game. Jon and Jacklyn seem to be the power couple that has the strongest alliance, which includes, Jeremy, Missy, Baylor, and Natalie. Jon and Jacklyn are examples of emergent leaders. According to the text, emergent leaderships occurs when a leader emerges from the group instead of being promoted(Engleberg and Wynn, pg 103). Baylor was able to win the elimination challenge, therefore, winning an elimination idol making her safe from elimination. This lead her to earn the position power which gave her a stronger status within the group. Reed struggles to have a better alliance with Jon and Jacklyn’s group by steeling an idol from Keith’s bag.

As elimination approached, Jon decided to try to get Jeremy voted off the island due to the fear of Jeremy telling the other members that Jon has the idol. Unfortunately, Jeremy was voted off the island leaving many of the members shocked. I believe now that Jeremy was suddenly voted off, this will cause the other tribe members to go against Jon. The betrayal Jon portrayed may lead to his elimination in the future.

Island Packers

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The New VoiceThread Arrives at CI this Spring!

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A Peek Inside the New VoiceThread! (4-minute video) VoiceThread is an asynchronous conversation tool that provides the ability to converse in voice, video, or text around your media files (PDFs, videos, images, and more).  At CI, VoiceThread is integrated with CI Learn, providing a seamless experience for connecting your students in warm, humanized online interactions. […]

Josh v. Jeremy (Episode 8, Chapter 5)

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By now, it is quite clear that the Huyopa tribe is dominated by two emergent leaders: Josh and Jeremy. Jeremy’s personal power has led his alliance to believe in his skills and knowledge whereas Josh has come up through the ranks with his charismatic power. That being said, I don’t think Josh appeared to be very likable in this episode.  When he tried to use coercive power to regain an alliance with Baylor, it seemed that his hidden agenda was all that mattered. He tried to be an autocratic leader by telling Baylor that she “owed him” but, when he realized that she wasn’t going to obey his orders, he said he was “done with her”. From that point on, Josh was set on getting Baylor voted out.

According to the 5M model of Leadership Effectiveness, Josh is ineffective in the first task of modeling leadership for Baylor. The text says that a model leader works to “build a climate of mutual trust between the leader and group members”. Josh failed to do this with Baylor. Early on, Baylor had been a willing follower but, Josh voted for her at a Tribal Council and this brought about mistrust. Keeping in mind that Josh’s leadership was derived from personal power rather than position power, he would have done well to remember that his power came from an earned status. The text points out that “followers have a say about where they are being led” and, Baylor did not want to be led into an alliance where she couldn’t trust her leader.

On the other hand, Fiedler’s Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness can be used to identify Jeremy as a task-motivated leader. For now, this style is causing him to shine in his role as a leader. He is enjoying good leader-member relationships, there is a clear task and, he has a lot of power. With regard to leader-member relations, Jeremy’s alliance seems to have positive group members who are friendly towards one another and loyal to their leader. One reason for this may be that Jeremy treats his members with respect. Missy commented on this when she stated that “Jeremy and Jon are the only gentlemen.” While the other male tribe members paraded around with bad manners, Jeremy took care to maintain his level of personal power by not joining in with the poor behavior.

It follows however, that not all of the power in this game is personal. Jon and Jaclyn have been repeatedly looked upon as a “power couple” in this game but, this episode makes it clear that all of the power is perceived to be in Jon’s hands. Jon and Jaclyn use a democratic style to make decisions together but, Jon seems to have the positional power of being the man in the relationship. The effects of gender and leadership were quite evident as Jon went away to Exile Island and Jaclyn returned to camp with the others. None of the guys tried to talk to Jaclyn or strategize with her  while her beau was away but, they all went running to Jon the moment he returned. Alec’s sentiments seemed rather clear when he boasted that Jaclyn was “gonna do whatever Jon says”. Maybe this week’s Tribal Council will teach Alec to show Jaclyn a little more respect, though; Jon followed Jaclyn’s wishes for this vote and voted against the guys.

Things don’t always go as expected on Survivor. Now that Josh is gone, it will be interesting to see if a new leader emerges in his place.

8th-Survivor

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In this episode of Survivor,  things took somewhat of a surprising turn when Jeremy was voted out. I felt like Jeremy was one the strongest teammates on the show in addition to being the most trustworthy.  Jeremy was on the winning team for the first challenge and actually gave up his winnings to Jacqueline as a tactic to deepen his alliance with one of the power couples.  As a result of his selfless act, he was rewarded with being voted to exile island and then voted off the show. What kind teammates he has. It should be noted that Jeremy exchanged his victory spot with Jacqueline after Natalie, Jeremy’s closest ally on the show, gave up her victory to John. This is important because it shows Jeremy’s true character because once he saw Natalie give up her spot, he joined her without hesitation to demonstrate how to stay true to someone that you trust. John and Jacqueline should have showed some pride and rejected their offer. That’s why when I think of leadership, which is described in the book as the ability to make strategic decisions and use communication effectively to mobilize group members toward achieving a common goal, I think of Jeremy. His decision to exchange his opportunity to feast and drink on the winning yacht was a strategic move to show others to trust in his leadership skills. A leader leads by example; not by words. A leader is also not afraid to go against the norm to ensure the common goal is succeeded despite whether people like him or not. Your’e not always going to please everybody and not everyone can handle that. Not everyone on the show could have handled being on exile island for two days at this point but Jeremy’s willingness to nominate himself tells me that he has big enough shoulders to carry a team on his back. He is a true leader and it was unfortunate that he was cheated by some of his teammates he trusted and was voted out.

SURVIVOR Episode 9?

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After the first challenge, Jeremy and Nadiya decide to give up their winning spots on the yacht to Jacklyn and John. This act was initially viewed as selfless, but upon further analysis, it appears that Jeremy and Nadiya were utilizing their group decision making and problem solving skills. Giving up their spots was a sign of appreciation for John and Jaclyn , but it also was an attempt to solidify their alliances. Even though Jeremy and Nadiya weren’t facing a problem in the present moment, they utilized their problem solving skills to ensure future protection. It seems as though Both Jeremy and Nadiya were Rational decision makers because they quickly concluded that their present sacrifice would be rewarded with future protection. After Jeremy is sent off to exile island, he quickly realizes that the hidden  idol is not there. He becomes suspicious that John has the Idol and begins to question the strength of their alliance. In the group cohesion section of Listening in Groups, one of the four strategies of enhancing group cohesion is the ability to emphasize teamwork: Cohesive group members believe that their combined contributions are essential to group success. In this particular circumstance, Jeremy is under the impression that he and John are in cohesive group relationship. Group conflict is the result of the broken trust of these two group mates. When Jeremy returns, he is certain of John’s deceit. This conclusion alters the course of the show. Reed is becoming increasingly vulnerable to being voted off. He becomes suspicious of of keith and decides to look through his bag wherein he finds out that Keith has an  idol. Reed Tries to form an alliance with some of the girls by revealing what he had found in Keith’s bag. As the number of contestants dwindle, the game has become more intense. Members within both tribes are realizing that the alliances that they have formed are fleeting and that there can only be one winner. Jeremy gets blindsided and voted off. I am so extremely interested to find out how this amazing show turns out! SO GOOD. SO GOOD!!!

Survivor Blog #8

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The tribe is split into two factions where one faction is being led by Jeremy and the other by Josh. There is a lot of non verbal communication being thrown around by the aggressive feelings from the two factions that have been formed. In the last episode there was a plan put into place by Josh’s faction where they would have had the numbers to vote off Jeremy but this plan was thrown off when Julie quit the game.

The first tribal challenge, the game required splitting into two teams. where the tribe was split evenly into half’s. Ironically the two teams had their own colors to tell them apart which were blue and yellow. Which sounds familiar since that was the color of the two tribes in the game. During the challenge the yellow team was pretty far ahead of the blue team. This I would say had to do with the verbal communication they had. They were communicating very well with one another which allowed them to work together and be organized with achieving the main goal of the challenge compared to the blue team that was scattered all over the place. At the end of the challenge the yellow team ended up winning the reward.

While the blue team was enjoying their reward it was hard for the team members to talk to one another. This had to do with the team being mixed with two alliances. So during this time the team was sitting down enjoying their food in basically silence. There was much non-verbal communication going around with everyone being silence and feeling awkward due to the silence. Keith tried to spark a conversation but it basically failed.

While back at the camp, Josh and the members who lost the first challenge took this opportunity to talk to Blare or I should Josh took this opportunity. It did not work the way Josh hoped though because Blare was sided with her mom and her mom was on Jeremy’s side with taking out Josh. Josh tried pulling the “I saved you earlier in the game” card on Blare to try to make her feel bad and side with him for the next tribal council but it did not work and if anything it upset her and made her to not want to side with him even more.

John was sent to exile island, while their he gets a clue to an idol that is hidden someone on exile island. He is able to find it and now it is a game changer for him as now he has power.

The tribe all gets back together at the camp and you can start to really feel the two factions really starting get verbally/non verbally aggressive with one another.Jeremy starts to get offended with how Keith is acting with his son and other tribe members around the women of the tribe because of how Keith is also a firemen and as being a firemen like Jeremy himself he feels that their is a standard when it comes to manners around women as being a firemen. So he expresses this opinion with the other tribe members, at least the ones in his faction.

The women start to express their opinions about how the men are acting in the tribe with one another by using verbal communication. Jacklyn is starting to reconsider voting for Jeremy because of how the men on Josh’s faction has been acting around the women. This may become a problem because it may either make the vote even at the tribal council which would call for a re-vote or it would men that it would give Jeremy’s faction the upper hand which would ultimately lead to voting off Josh. In addition to this it may create problems between John and Jacklyn when it comes to deciding which faction to stick with. Keith and the other men in Josh’s faction don’t seem to be worried about this as they feel that Jacklyn will still side with John when it comes to deciding who to vote for.

In the second challenge the prize was immunity. During the challenge it came down to Josh and Jeremy competing for immunity from the next tribal council.Jeremy ended up winning the challenge and receiving immunity from the next tribal council.

At the end of the episode, Josh ended up being the person voted out at tribal council

 

 

Blood vs. Water Episode 9: Captain Crunched….

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On Episode of Survivor Jeremy gets backfired for his vote against John’s vote. Instead he gets voted out which was quite a interesting because Jeremy was redeemed Leader of the group. And since the Jeremy is out it is now couples game.

On chapter 2. It is of group development. Each member of the tribes went and developed a certain style of trust, image and enough points of personality to fit in with certain people. But because Jeremy is out it is now more of a open game. Before Jeremy was the leader. They all developed around him and his control. When Josh got out last episode It felt certain that the group development will last that the group who were with Jeremy will keep going with Jeremy. The one thing i did catch however was tension. It is close to the reward time and everyone is now radaring each other on who gets the money. And the way they shook off these tensions were to create alliances and mini alliances with others around them.

When Baylor got the immunity this episode Missy felt control. She wanted to push her and Baylor to the top. And I suspect they will. Missy has been making bold moves for baylor and baylor clings to her mom. But the catch is she is stepping into the radar…….and with the leader Jeremy gone it was more about “performing stages” without a “norming stage”. Meaning it is a hubunkle of mess and free for all matches.

My next prediction…..Keither will get someone out…..why because he is there and he is observing everyone with small talks and sharp eyes.

Blog 8, Ep. 9: Getting to Crunch Time

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I feel like this week’s episode  did not really relate to group leadership. I could not really tell who was being in leader in this one because every tribe member was so worried about themselves and worried about getting voted off. Reed was furious about Josh getting voted off. Keith and Wes were just over the whole game in general. When they had a immunity challenge, the whole group split into two teams. Jeremy and Nataly’s team won, but they decided to trade spots with Jaclyn and Jon because they know they have not eaten. The prize for winning that challenge was going out on yacht and eat sandwiches and drink all day. Then Jeremy got sent to Exile Island after trading places with Jon and he was told to find the idol. Jeremy realized that Jon had found the idol when he was sent to Exile Island and that is when Jon realized too that Jeremy was looking for it and that he technically lied about it. So this whole time everyone is questioning everyone else because they don’t know who is being honest and who they should vote off this week. In my opinion, I still looked at Jeremy as a good example of a leader. He tried having everyone’s back and help people think more rational and I was confused why he was voted off. Other people were confused why he was voted off too, because once again he was one of the stronger team members.

‘Cause the Players gonna play, play, play

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During this episode of Survivor the players on the show went through a series of events leading to a an unexpected ending. Throughout the episode the Huyopa tribe displayed all of the four categories of group motivation.
After Day 21, the Huyopa tribe came back from tribal council having voted Josh out. This decision left Reed his partner furious and he decided to change the way he was going to play the game. His motivation towards winning Survivor had changed and he was playing to avenge it for his boyfriend. After going to the last tribal council it was evident now that everyone was playing the game of survivor with the main objective of winning no matter the costs. During the reward change the player had to go against each other and literally ‘shake it off’ until one side won. At the end of the challenge the yellow team won but Natalie again decide to switch places with Jon so he could enjoy the reward. Then in-turn, Jeremy did the same and traded so that Jaclyn could go with her boyfriend as well. Everyone was shocked that this trade happened and out of the blue but some were speculating why. Chapter 6 highlights, the four categories of motivation in a group as sense of meaningfulness, choice, competence and progress. Natalie exhibits all of these when she makes the choice to trade the reward up. Sense of meaningfulness because she is motivated to accomplish an alliance, and sense of choice because she had the power and ability to change things up with trading, sense of competence by providing feedback as to the hopes of getting alliance with Jon and Jaclyn groups because she felt the were so great. And lastly a sense of progress because she is helping develop here plan toward winning and celebrating how some did something for her in the past.
While on the yacht Reed sees that this is all a game, and Natalie is motivated by something to do that trade. Later on he exhibits sense of choice and meaningfulness by playing dirty and going through Keith bag to find the clue to an immunity idol and trying to turn others on his side. Jeremy goes to exile island and finds that someone in their tribe, who he speculates to be Jon has an hidden immunity idol so builds a stronger alliance to get him out. At this time every one on the Huyopa tribe is playing survival of the fittest and talking to each other on how they should vote constructively, demonstrating their sense of competence. Baylor wins the next challenge and helps her group brainstorm who to vote out the next tribal council. Jeremy now feels confident because he has given other players of the game useful information to build his alliance. At tribal council there was quick a deliberation on how people were playing the game, so I had no idea who they were gonna vote out. At the end of the day Jeremy doesn’t realize everyone is playing a game and voted him off Survivor. ‘Cause the Players gonna, play, play, play!