The Forgotten Group Member Case Study

Group projects are an essential part of making outstanding students. These projects help students learn how to communicate with others, develop new skills, and become more responsible. Involving students in group projects will help them to establish skills necessary later in life.

If there is a fellow group member who is slacking, I wouldn’t recommend for the group to consult with the professor just yet, whether or not the professor is willing to offer assistance. The first initiative that I would immediately take is kindly ask our fellow group member to participate and work within the group effectively. If the student still doesn’t show importance to the group project then I would warn the slacking student that we may talk to the professor. If the student still remains stubborn, we would go to the professor to talk about the matter. If the professor doesn’t care much about it, then I would consult with my group members about this situation and we would vote if we need to incorporate him in the group or not, and let’s

This example manifests the core essentials of group working in professional environment. Refer to my own experience in research laboratory, both me and other undergraduate researchers are so intimidated to ask details questions to the supervisor such as graduate students or visiting scholars. As a results, we made a lot of mistakes in final results and feel so afraid of incoming blaming. In surprise, the graduate mentor did not blame us but help us to analyze the exact steps that cause the mistakes and notified us the importance of ask whatever questions in concerns of experiment operations. After the conversation, I communicated with the graduate student and asked why he never blame us and he said every lab member take same amount of responsibility as a project group. If undergraduate researchers produce mistakes, it is also the responsibility of the graduate student for not supervising properly and giving the enough timing for new members to ask questions. He also apologizes to us that he focused on his coursework and proposal too much that he was not visit lab frequently enough. After our constructively reflecting thoughts to each other, the entire efficiency of laboratory improves apparently and new members avoid many mistakes by asking their confusions in

My group consisted of Bailee Wallace,Adrian Watkins, Jermecia Edwards, and myself. My group members kind of fulfilled their duties as a whole, but as individuals not so well. Two certain group members were either slacking on the work, not contributing at all, or having attitudes.Bailee did what she felt was necessary to do to make our group assignments seem and feel worthwhile.I proofread everything and attempted to get the other members to help us out a little bit more.Most of all Bailee and I did most of the work. One of our group members had an attitude during this whole project and we even had an altercation because of this particular problem. The other was sick, but still knew that he or she had responsibilities to take care of. He got his work turned in right on time. The other did not want to deal with me.

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

Group projects can go one of two ways: you end up becoming close with your members as you power through the assignment or you end up feeling an enormous amount of contempt towards them that sprouts from their apparent incompetence. I’m very glad to say that I enjoyed working with my group members. They weren’t incompetent at all and were actual really nice to do this assignment with.

The concept of group projects has always scared me, the relying on a partner to respond on time and get the work done is something that takes more trust than I can even begin to explain. I have worked with many people since I started school, I have had good experiences and bad experiences but none quite like this. The partner I got for lesson two in psychology was Brooke Blizzard and she helped change the was I viewed group projects. Brooke Blizzard took her time responding to every single message I sent, but when she did finally respond, she made sure it was exactly what I needed and in as much detail as she could provide over text message. She was reliable when I was worried about her dropping the ball on this lesson and proved to me just

As Dr. White restructured Mike while he was talking off the subject at times, it sometimes worked, as Dr. White listened then steered Mike back on track. Mike continued to veer off track a lot, however Dr. White allowed this to get a more positive picture of what Mike was actually talking about. Dr. White asked Mike to explain his version of how he started his first fire. Mike was quite animate that he was almost pressured by his friends, or they would “kick his butt.” Dr. White’s interventions or directing Mike’s conversation was somewhat successful,

I frowned, and internally berated myself for allowing myself to be put in such a position. I sighed, realizing that I did, after all, have no one to blame but myself. As I took my place at the table, the frostiness from one side was almost palpable. Perhaps I was overthinking it, but she certainly did not look up when I sat down, whereas the other two greeted me cordially, at least on a surface level. After all, who can blame them, does any student truly enjoy group projects? I realized very quickly that we were getting nowhere fast, and I did not have all day to waste. Patience was running thin, and tempers were beginning to flair. However, any suggestion I made was immediately stonewalled by Jess, who sat opposite me. I realized then that I would have to change my strategy if I were to make any headway in the meeting. To this end, I resolved to employ integration and rationality in order to create order and progress within our group project and avoid an imminent rebuttal. I chose these two because ingratiation and rationality can be powerful tools in the repertoire of any communicator looking to convince another disinterested party. To this end, I

In university, for one of my subjects, we are required to complete a full scientific report on an experiment as a group. We were paired with 3 other students who we would continue to work with for other projects. However, due to an uneven cohort, an extra member was added to our group. We delegated him the task of analysing the graphs and producing statistical tests with the data. Upon hours before the report was due, the member messaged saying that he didn’t know how to perform statistical analyses and was unable to complete it on time. Due to other commitments, my other team members were unable to reply to him on the group chat. I took voluntarily took lead and messaged him. Determined to get a good mark, I sent him links on how to perform the analyses and he personally called me to clarify. From my knowledge from previous subjects and through effective communication I was able to help him to complete the task. With support, he finished his allocated work efficiently and accurately even though it was last minute. In the end we received a high distinction for the report and the group was better connected and motivated for our next group

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

The first solution would require clearly define expected group behaviors with a formal team charter during the first meeting. A formal team charter would define the team goals up front and in this cause include the required group behaviors like punctuality, respect, assistance to team members, attending tem meeting, submitting required assignment on time and submitting completed and quality assignments. Team roles for the team members would also be clearly defined. This would have potentially avoided the problem Christine’s team had with Mike he would have had a team role and would of know his attendance was required. It is possible that Mike still may have tested the boundaries of the group to see what he could get away with not doing. Had Mike been educated on the importance of his roles and attending the meeting when he did not want come to 8:30 am meeting, he would have learned that his comedy was allowed but he also needed to make an effort to come to the group meeting.

In the Salazar text, the author talks about the personal qualities of group leaders and the group leaders self-awareness.

It would be interesting to have group members with a more extensive range of skills which could be applied to practical activities and the process of sharing and discussing ideas. I also think it would have been wise to ask the teacher questions I had regarding the project and its criteria. As I learned throughout the course of this project, asking for help does not show weakness and it only proves that you care about the outcome of the project and are willing to try alternative solutions to achieve

The meeting was heading for a finger pointing session this struck me of the chronically defeated team (Tyson 2010), and how this leads to poor team performance. This frustrated me as I wanted to contribute in a positive