Personal Statement: What Role Did You Play In The Group

In this role, I ensured the organized ran smoothly and grew to optimal levels by means of events such as successful fundraisers and social/morale boosting events. I also built strong long lasting relationships with individual members as well as we worked together in achieving and surpassing our goals set forth by the national campaign. This was great experience because under my leadership, we implemented various social media plans such as email marketing through MailChimp, automated tweets through Buffer, and crowdfire automated responses. In this role, I also became one of the national website administrator for our page that ran through

I believe that everyone in the group participated in the group. Usually one asks a question and some people provide help/explanations.

The Assignment given was an essay for students to talk about their group members my group is group 3. The group consists of Kinsey, Ashley, Sahra, and myself.

Group Members & Responsibilities/Work (What was each person responsible for/what did they do? Include yourself.)

Primarily it was a service group, but it was technically a virtual group as well. The reason why it primarily was a service group is because the purpose of the group was to spread good will and kindness and all profits go to “Random Acts”, the charity in charge of the event. It was also a virtual group as well because all meetings and communication were never face-to-face, but rather using different forms of technology. The group formed mostly from random mutual friends slowly joining until all fifteen slots in the group were filled. The team leader made the group, and then more and more people started inviting random people they knew until it was a complete group. As all of the members were waiting for the hunt to start, we started talking over the internet in order to get to know each other better. Oddly though, the group was only in the storming stage of group development for a total of half an hour while we were deciding who would do what items once the list was released. This was because since Courtney was the one who made the group, she was assigned leader, and there was no other need for leadership roles until we had to decide on list

Overall, the task group (group mission statement, puppet show, choreographed skit) experience was very fun. I really enjoyed the extent to which creativity played into each of the group tasks. I honestly do not know how this experience would have went if not for the adventurousness of it all. I say this because there were quite a bit of issues that I experienced between myself and some of the other group members. However, before going into depth on those issues, I would like to begin discussing my roles within the task group process.

When I select my content, I wanted it to be socially relevant and specific. I

I managed their social media channels to drive community engagement and growth. I was also able to work directly with various vendors, talent agencies and technicians to produce online content with a focus on Facebook Live Broadcasts. One of the videos I produced, about the history of Bugs Bunny, amassed over 5 million views!

This year in marching band, I had the honor of being awarded the position of section leader. My responsibilities were teaching my younger peers how to march and perfect their music. But aside from that, it was watching over them. For example, I had an underclassman in my section that was falling down the wrong path. He was hanging with the wrong crowd and getting into fights. I saw a peer who was lost and in distress with his emotions Whenever he was about to make a wrong move I was there to stop him. While others watched him fall down the wrong path and didn't over him any guidance. I stepped up and made the choice of changing him for the better. I gained his trust and friendship through the long hours in the band. I made him steer clear of

A team I have lead was my executive board when I was president of my fraternity.Some ways in which I built ownership of our shared goals was through effective deligation, open communication, and having a plan. Delegation is not simply askiing tasks or projects but utalizing my brothers for their strengths and supporting them in whatever they need in order to accomplish their responsibilities. Communication is important to be able to get input from my Ebaord because their opinions of important decisions for the fraternity needs to be respected and counted equal. Although not all of their opinions will be able to be acted upon everytime but the feeling of at least being heard led to more trust, collabroation and enaggement from my eboard memebers as the year went on.

Women in Leadership Laurier has been the most rewarding position I’ve ever had at Laurier. This position enabled me to grow my leadership skills and enhance my communication skills entirely. Not just with the tasks of emailing external partners for the events but creating schedules to make sure my team and I were on the same page during all of our events. During my year at Women in Leadership Laurier, I’ve had the fortunate privilege to move from a coordinator position to a VP position within the last 7 months. During this time I was able to make a contribution to gathering different contacts, collecting over 500$ and establishing long lasting partnerships with companies like RBC and Coca Cola.

I need to be fully aware of deadlines and the expectations for each individual item that is due. I think that is important because sometimes group members wait to be told by the other members of what needs to be done. I think it is also important to be the person, who gets the group back on track, to what needs to be done. At the very beginning of our formation of the team Melissa said exactly that, she made it clear that she wanted to be a very efficient team and not waste time during our meetings. I completely agree with our leader being so straightforward because we have not really digressed in any of our meeting times. Also, we did not waste any time in the beginning, we were quick to form a group, but also to begin looking for an organization that would want to work with us. We had to call multiple organizations before we found one that we would be passionate about and were willing to work with us. I think this truly made a difference in the work we were able to accomplish early on during the formation and development of the

List EACH group member’s name and describe what each individual contributed to the project. Describe your PERSONAL contributions to the project.

This meant that I was the only one left to be section leader during marching season as a sophomore. I’ve been section leader since then, and I love all of the people in my section. After marching band was over, I took over as concertmaster for my band.

As we begin to form our self-managed work teams this week for the final report and presentation due at the end of session, I begin to reflect on the situations where I have had to be part of a group. Accordingly, past experiences have led me to form a generally negative viewpoint with regards teamwork in both the education and workplace setting. In most situations, group work is facilitated by a single leader responsible for ensuring that all members complete their work to the required standard. Nevertheless, this has lead to situations where team members often become unproductive or dysfunctional. For one thing, conflict – whether it be task or relational – arises between team members and leaders when they begin to feel that they are subject to the leader’s authoritarian behaviour or scrutiny. For another, the leaders responsible for the management of the group begin to feel underappreciated or dissatisfied with the levels of task productivity generated by group members. In stating this, I have experienced both sides of single leadership team management – with mostly disastrous results – where negative team performance ultimately reflected on assessment grades.