Working in a group setting can cause strain on some individuals, but it also can be helpful to the same individual. Group projects are a major component to both negative and positive effects. There are then easy and hard components of working in a group setting, that can range from person to person. The easiest part of working in a group project was commitment, trust, and motivation. In our group everyone was committed toward getting a great grade and wanting to work for that. Group projects usually tend to have people rely on others to do the work. For this project, for example, I believe my group did not have that issue. We all worked together, splitting parts up for the presentation, including the PowerPoint, annotated bibliography, and …show more content…
In our group, some of us work so it was hard to find a time for us to meet around our classes and work schedules. There was a time when a member was called into work the time we were meeting. This caused some issues because she had the folder with all information. Due to that, we were unable to complete all our tasks for that day. Conflict can also arise making it difficult. Some individuals take on more tasks than others not making it fair on either member. The member with less work might finish earlier and may not have much to talk about, while the one with more work and go into more detail and talk more about it. The project is supposed to be split up evenly so this caused an issue. Overcoming differences is also a major issue that came up. Some of our thoughts did not match up with other members of the group. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to work those two things into the project, instead of finding the best and working with that. This caused us to lose time that we could have been using to make our project …show more content…
This can work smoothly for some individuals, while making it very difficult for others. There are skills that should be present to make everything run smoothly. Communication is a major skill that everyone should work on when in a group setting. You have to be able to voice your opinion and give ideas. If there is no communication between a group, two individuals may work on the same topic. This causes an issue and everyone to be behind schedule. Communication also allows people to know who is doing what, when everyone is meeting, and how to do a task in the way everyone wants. This then leads to trust. Trust is also a major skill as nursing majors and as students that we need to have and strengthen. In group settings, trust needs to be established to work as a group. When trust is established within a group, the group can rely on others to give feedback if they do not agree with something mentioned. Everyone wants the best grade they can receive and without communication and trust that would not be possible. Relating to nurses, trust needs to be present because if one nurse asks another for help, they need to be able to trust they complete the task the complete and proper way. It works for group projects in the same way. If you ask a member to complete a task for you that you are unable to complete, you have to trust they will complete it and in the same way you would. This then leads to
For this class project, I think my group worked well together on the assignments. We all saw we had responsibilities and were expected to do our own parts for each assignment we worked on. For each assignment, we would split it equally among us and used a tool called Google Docs so we were each on our own computers but working together on one file. Google Docs really made the process easier with reviewing all the information and having it all in one file. If any questions came up we had a group text to communicate when we weren’t on campus grounds for class.
In this group project, I had a major role in ensuring that it came together in a unified way. Generally, I usually take a leadership role in group projects so I was the central person coordinating group meetings and ensuring sufficient communication. To begin the project, we divided up the work by assigning people to work on the case study, find literature, summarize the textbook, and talk to key informants. My assigned part was to summarize the textbook, which also ended up lending itself to finding some additional sources to build on what the textbook was lacking. In regard to the group literature and informant summary, I ended up writing most
This sometimes leads to conflicts and collaboration problems. Tuckman and Belbin’s theories helped me identify potential strengths and weaknesses within the group, overcome conflict between group members and understand and appreciate every members’ contribution in the group. Tuckman and Belbin advocated in their theories that several problems or obstacles can ruin the successful completion of a task. However, in the group task, we encountered several problems in the aspect of making contacts within group members, differences in ideas, and opinions of group members on the case study, group members not working collaboratively with other group members as well as the delivery tasks given to each members timely. However, as a group, we were able to overcome these obstacles by using diplomacy in certain areas of the group discussion, identifying each other’s potential strengths and weaknesses so that the group task can be completed successfully. In areas where a group member fails in a given task, other group members were there to provide knowledge and skills to cover up its
a major group project I have had to work on in my life was my freshman magnet project. In this project we had to work in groups of four to research a career in its entirety including degrees to obtain and schools you can go to. From the very beginning we knew this project is going to be difficult as it had many components. we decided that divided the work would be the easiest for everyone's success. as a whole we were able to accomplish a well designed poster and presentation of our work. Separated however we were able to create a successful portfolio, the most important part of the project. We each individual we did our research on our chosen part and when the time came combined them onto a singular files which can be modified by everyone
We actually had a good small group of four people. The group was perfect size; not to many people, but not too small of a group that it was over whelming with the work for the rest of the people in the group. We were all assigned individual that were in our group which was good, and met that we had purpose to complete this task. If we would have picked our own group then I am not fully positive if anything would have gotten done, because people would probably pick the people that they mostly talk to. In our group we had a leader of the group (Jessica) and we also had diversity with our different back grounds, and their being more than one gender. Knowing this leads us to that this was a positive situation.
Working in a group was a great way to get to know my classmates. Despite our differences, we worked together and completed the assignment. I like working in a group, but sometimes I would rather do the assignment on my own. Group work has its good and bad effects.
In my small group for the film project analysis project I worked with four other students, Deonte, Frank, Osama, and Stephen. The specific purpose that we came together for was to analyse the film, Oz, The Great and Powerful and identify the different properties of communication in the film and how they were used. We held our group meetings after class three times and once before class. Our group had no clear leader, and instead each member was self-directed, and instead our group came to a general consensus at each meeting as to how tasks should be divided and what should be done before the next meeting. While there were significant setbacks to our group’s progress, aside from one anomaly our group worked well together and had only one major conflict.
Learning how to work effectively in a group situation is key to success in many professions as well as in social situations. Groups vary from each other based on the individuals that make up each group, all of us belong to various groups at one time or another. The roles that we fulfill vary from group to
The first reason I agree with group projects is it gives students a chance to make new relationships. Frequently, I'm put into a group with people that I don't know. For instance, this girl was in my group that I had never met before, but I have seen her around school. We talked and I got to know a lot of things about her that I had never expected to know. By just talking for a little bit, I learned so much, which helped our group work better because I knew her strengths and weakness.
Working in a group can be beneficial but it can also come with hardship that is if others lack the drive and ability to work together. Working in a group takes effort; it takes psychological support, and cooperation. The foundation of group behaviors is something that can come and go but it takes a lot of effort to keep it going after so long. Although these efforts may come and go it is important to consider what it takes to work within a group, successfully. The article I chose to report on deals with the consequences that can come from those who are working in-group settings. It is important to understand what it takes to be productive and this research does the best it can to tackle those issues. It gives us the information we need to succeed and avoid anything that would go against those successes. One of the biggest concerns within group settings is the
Finally, group projects do not work because someone might not do their work or part, people will get mad of simple things, and the take so much more time than they should
Why projects are bad for students Group projects are often assigned in schools all over the nation and every adult and child have been at the time when they get a bad grade on a group assignment because of a. For this reason, group assignments are often groaned upon in a lot of schools, especially if it means working with someone you don’t like, and that can hurt you academically. That is why group assignments should not be assigned anywhere because of the academic risk of uncooperative or mean group members messing up your hard work and effort, causing you to get a bad grade over something you meant to do good on, even though they offer pros, the cons out weigh the pros. In the classroom, the uncooperative members could be stubborn, mean,
I am Zeeshan Ali; I am working as a Computer teacher for Classes VI-X-M in Canal Side Boys Campus. I have done Masters in Computer Science (MCS) from Punjab University College of Information and Technology (PUCIT) Lahore. The students are the main focus of every teacher and our entire teaching efforts circle round our students to achieve the set targets. Effective Teaching includes many useful teaching strategies that a teacher chooses according to the requirement of his/her respective subject and topic as well. In result of my years of experience and as a Computer teacher I find Group Work as the most effective and fruitful technique at every level.
Working in a group can be very difficult at times. Different people with different views may not always agree which one another. Throughout the various task I played the communicator. I made sure everyone was on track on what we wanted to do. I also made sure people was okay and happy in the role they was playing in the group. My group worked together in collecting ideas from one another and making it into one.
Being involved in a group project was a challenge for me, due to the fact that we had some communication problems between our group members in the beginning. First of all, we started with a brainstorming, analysing the opportunities of companies around Hendon Central. More than this, we agreed on the same firm and started our work. Within a teamwork, there are some challenges that occur such as remaining focused on a direction, splitting equally the work and choosing a good leader. Bearing all this in mind, I might say that we did our best during the presentation and we coped with the minor communication issues. From this experience, I realized that I am a good leader and I can manage efficiently a project.