Giselle Orozco
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

What I Learned

There are various factors involved in business that are used in our daily lives. One of the most basic things we use in our daily lives is communication. We talk to people all the time, and it is not always necessarily in a one on one conversation. There are points when we would need to refer to more than one person at a time and talking to each one individually is not very effective. However, when you do get them all together, you come across a dilemma of whether or not the people you’re talking to are engaged and productive. There is a method that could help you potentially solve this problem.

The Get Stuff Done (GSD) Cycle is used to approach effective communication within a group. In her book, Radical Candor, Kim Scott states, “When run effectively, the GSD wheel will enable your team to achieve more collectively than anyone could ever dream of achieving individually” (Scott 81). Scott demonstrates that the GSD Cycle has helped improve communication within teams. The GSD Cycle doesn’t need to be used in professional encounters. It can also be used in smaller projects and life. The GSD Cycle consists of seven different steps that can be simplified into three categories. In order to better understand the categories, an example will accompany each one. I am a part of the Amigos Youth Ambassadors, and I have a duty to create and execute a project within my community. I have chosen to focus myself on suicide prevention at my school. First, your team needs to share their ideas and explain them within a smaller group to make it easier to be an active listener. In my case, I will have two teams, one team will be the ones who come up with ideas and another team will be in charge of executing them. However, that second team does have a say in the decision made. This brings me to the next category of steps; a larger group will discuss the ideas and the small group will convince others of the ideas’ efficacy to see which ones will be used. For my team, I will have a meeting once a week to combine both groups, so they share their ideas and we can have a group discussion about it instead of me making the decisions for them. Lastly, the team must learn from the results of the idea that was decided upon after it has been executed. For my example, we would need to gather data to see whether or not our ideas worked.

I plan on using this cycle and introducing it to my team the first time we get together, so we are all on the same page. This cycle will not only help me guide my team, but it will also make for a great skill set in life.

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