SRA 211 Dysfunction Report

The group process broke down because there was never a group. This group began with a group of five individuals who had strong opinionated views as of the relevancy of their professions and experience. Instead of getting together as a group and mutually deciding how

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

Communication between group members was essential to complete this project well and in a timely matter. We used the GroupMe phone application to discuss developments to the project and obstacles encountered. When group members could not meet during class, I made sure to get them caught up through the GroupMe app immediately. I feel my leadership and organization was necessary to get certain group members to contribute to the project. Overall, I was satisfied with the group

Moving on to communication and interaction patterns, I would have to give the group a very low rating for this. While our mission statement was to listen and cooperate with one another, cooperation was decent, but there was some issues with my group’s listening ears. I mentioned before how two of the group members had an issue with my reserved personality, and reacted to the difference in a rude manner. In the end, everything worked out, but during the process, interaction was fairly poor, and communication could have been more courteous and

A low-cohesive group that I have been a part of was an activity planning committee at a past employer. The group met once a month for three hours in the evening to plan monthly activities for the parents of preschool students. The group consisted of one leader and four teachers. The teachers were asked to bring ideas of activities to each meeting and each time the leader would arrive with an idea and would not be willing to hear additional ideas from the teachers. The leader would assign tasks that needed to be completed by each teacher to assist with implementing the activity for the month, but was not willing to allow the teachers to contribute ideas. There was very little communication throughout the three hour monthly meeting, the leader was unwilling to listen, and the teachers began missing

The last discouraging group experience I had was for the final group project in my audio technology class in my senior year of high school. We had to write, produce, and record two songs for an artist that we created. At the end of senior year, most high school students are not motivated to do anything. The members of my group did not really care about completing the project or the quality of the work we were doing. There were not really any group norms. We were expected to work on our tasks for whatever positions were assigned during the class period. There was a lot more deviance than conformity in the group. The members would sometimes not work on the group project during class time but on their own projects and homework for other classes.

In the past, I have not had good experiences within group projects, so before going to class I thought that this would be the exact same. Usually, groups during meetings are completely off topic and procrastinate on the work that needs to be done. I have found that this leads to most of the group doing the work a day before the project is due. I had the expectation that this would only happen again. For the MGT 200 service based learning project I also had very different expectations. Before we found our service learning organization, I thought that we would mostly be told about what needed to be done by the team. Additionally, I presumed that we would have to constantly meet face to face with the organization to fulfill their expectations. I also knew coming into this class that the project would involve a lot of work, which I do

Throughout my life I have had quite a few experiences working collaboratively as a team with both negative and positive outcomes. A couple good experiences would be when I worked Black Friday at Sears and volunteering at the Angel Tree around Christmas. These were both stressful events but it went well because my team communicated effectively, everyone participated in achieving their goals, and was respectful. It also helped that we knew each other on a personal level. On the other hand, I have had many negative experiences throughout my college career. There has been a decent amount of group assignments where my team did not even want to be at school. They never participated or did their share of the work and I was ultimately

This semester I was involved with two uniquely different groups for presentations, The Rule of Three and FlixList. The first group had a total of three members while the second group started off with five members, but grew to six during the course of the project. Both groups shared similarities such as they both experienced the establishment of roles within the groups, both experienced group cohesiveness (albeit in different ways and on different levels of cohesion), both groups picked topics and executed plans to be successful in the desired outcome of both groups and attainment of group goal which, in both cases, was ultimately earning a good grades on our presentations. On the other hand, the groups in which I was involved in were

The Five Dysfunctions of a team are absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattentin to results. Each of these items will lead team to failure eventually. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team written by Patrick Lencioni address each of these in detail.

The effectiveness of our group collaboration was mixed regarding this particular project. While two of us in the group have vast experience in group projects in addition to course work in general, this was the first course for one of the participants. This created slight tension

At first working with a group of four proved to be a bit difficult. It was tricky to find something that we all had in common we had four totally different people. Two of them coming from the other side of the globe. Devantchi had just arrived two weeks earlier when I met her. Tony left his home in China at the age of 15 to attended school. Ky has been the glue in our group. She has been at Greenriver now for almost two years. It was nice to have someone who knew what to do and expect. This group project ended up being a great way to meet other members of the class and when we met up to work on our project we got to know each other. Since this is my first quarter the other members of my group were completely invaluable. They showed

This group had a decent amount of interactions between the group members and the speaker. There was little interaction amongst group members or with the facilitator during the group which may be due to the large group size. Due to where the leader was sitting and the large group size, it was difficult for members to hear; this resulted in a lack of presence from many group members. The group’s nonverbal behaviors were not strong; many seemed to be looking down or talking to one another rather than listening to the person speaking. There were also many distractions throughout the meeting which made it less effective than the others I attended. Member roles also became indistinguishable due to the groups size and lack of official structure. However, members that chose to participate did portray a more facilitative/building role (Gladding,

I remember in nursing school I was in a team of three where we had to devise a cultural project and present it too an audience. This team I was in was not a voluntary decision but was a decision of the professor. The negative team experience from the project was miscommunication, lack of communication, and lack of accountability from some members of the group. I think what caused the majority of issues was the miscommunication and lack of proper communication between group members. In the example, one team member would declare a role in the group project, but would then focus on another area or a different cultural subject after what we agreed upon. It seemed every team member had their own idea and subject they wanted to focus on. I was eager

Most teams who are dysfunctional, do not know they are dysfunctional. They don 't know because they are usually part of the problem, too close to the problem, or they are in denial. Or, they have never been on a functional team, and they don 't know the difference. You are a dysfunctional team if you lack these five things, absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results (Lencioni, 2002)