Trivial initiatives do matter

This past week we were given a group project in the writing class. The project was to form a research question to answer which we would have to do observation of a public activity. To complete the project we had to dedicate significant amount of time outside the class as a group.

No one in the group was ready to bring up the discussion about the time to meet up, so I took the initiative to bring that up. Since we are in college unlike high school our schedule might not coincide, so I started by asking for the best day of the week when they were free. Finally we decided to meet on a Saturday afternoon. It might seem that taking initiative to decide the time to meet is trivial, it really isnt. If I had not taken the initiative to decide the time of meeting during the class, then at the end we would had to decide the time hastily. And in hastiness many of us would had agreed to a random time only to realize later that we had something else planned for that time.

Another initiative that I took while working on the same project was to introduce the group to google docs. Google docs is a useful tool that can be used to create documents with great collaboration without taking distance into consideration. I took the initiative to explain them that while everyone can work on the same document from their laptops. It came out to be very useful, because instead of each of us writing our own version and then later on collaborating in to one version we were able to work on a single version from start to end. We were able to save precious man hours and at the time we were able to produce better output.

Someone else in my place would had ignored to take the initiative to introduce the group to google docs, because of the explanation that was involved. But I was courageous enough to take the initiative.