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 …show more content…
Further complicating group cohesion, one member never fully “buying into” the group. This was partly because of the topic being chosen at a meeting they could not attend, due to the own member’s refusal to meet except for a particular day in which the other two members both had scheduling conflicts. We solicited their feedback by text and email multiple times all of which went unanswered. As a result, this member was like “pushing an elephant” throughout the project and constantly threatened our group success. Whether it was through lack of competent communication, constant questioning of our project, insulting other members (I truly don’t think this person was remotely aware of how they were coming across even after it was pointed out), overall lack of enthusiasm for the project, and group itself; group cohesion was a constant struggle and the success of the group was in question. To handle the situation, the other two group members worked together, dug our heels in and kind of “dragged” the third person along for the ride. To the naysayer’s credit, when it came right down to it, they delivered for our group. We were able to present a well thought out, planned, and polished presentation despite internal tension present at the time. In both our Call and on our feedback from our presentation to the
Our group worked on all the components of the project together, which included the research, reference pages, scripts, and the PowerPoint. I believe our decision to not assign specific tasks to a single individual allowed us to fully understand all the information and get along better due to the fact we all were doing the same amount of work. In a group setting, we had to work together and communicate with one another in order to create a suitable presentation. One thing I saw that our group thrived at was listening to one another. Our book defines listening as the “active, complex process that consists of being mindful, physically receiving messages, selecting and organizing messages, interpreting messages, responding, and remembering (Wood, 2016).” Each group member had to
My group consisted of four other members-Christy, Daniel, Brian, and Allison. When we were first introduced to the idea of a small group project we knew that our presentation had to entertain the audience, and at the same time inform them. At that point, we were functioning as individuals. Each of us tossed out a ton of ideas and some were shot down right away. That took about 5minutes. Then Daniel mentioned that we can do a parody of the television show Change of Hearts, and it stuck to us like glue. Gradually we began to feed into his revelation, and started to add our personal touches. Each of us became elaborators. For about 15 minutes we took the idea and expanded it to see where it could lead
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
This relates to our small group class very closely because it takes all the people in the group to achieve the goals of the group, not one person alone can achieve the goal successfully, and if they do it wont be as good as it should have been with all the members participating in the objective.
My Social Problem Research Project group consisted of Jennifer Oppor, Jordan Koski, Emily Johnson, Ethan Kilgore, Micaela Haupert, and April Westrum, and Me (Erin Bosman). Our group had an end goal to generate commitment to soaring above stigmas surrounding learning disabilities, and more specifically soaring above stigmas surrounding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We focused on ADHD for our social problem. That's our overall task, and interest of the group. To be successful as a group, teams must share a commitment to their goal or task. In order to be effective in their approach to the end goal or purpose of a group, the members must unite and agree to put the overall interest of the group above their own interests (Forsyth,
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.
When I first find out that there’s a group project, I wanted to work with people that I know are responsible, capable of doing the assignments, respectful, and don’t procrastinate. I did not want to work with negative people at all I’ve learned from past group presentation experience, so I quickly ask Carolyn, Britney and Adina if they want to work together, they agreed and that’s how we formed our group but, we still needed to add one additional person for our group. The second time we meet up in class the other group members had already ask two of our classmates to join our group so Alexia and Wendy came along. I was excited about everyone that’s in our group because, I know that they’re all are capable of getting the assignments and project done on time and they are very respectful. We were assigned by the professor to come up with a group contract, I have never done any group contract before so I was happy with the assignment. We all decide that in order for us to have a positive group experience we would have to follow the contract we’ll of course follow the contract and we came up with things that we all agreed on. We add on the contract that “everyone will keep their feelings in check and keep group members informed of how things are going. No one is expected to give full disclosure of their situation but a general advising that something is going on is expected. Respect each other and don 't be afraid to ask for help. On the second meeting we also came up with a
My group's presentation and discussion went pretty smooth. My group was prepared for the lecture we were giving to the class. Our material was very straightforward and very informative. To me, it was repeated information that I already got taught. Our group started a slide show and everyone contributed into it. I believe that each one of us had the same amount of work. We all split up all the work to who wanted what and who was good at which. Before starting the slideshows, we all told each other that each was responsible for 4-5 slideshows. We did not want to have one person doing more than the rest of the group. I contributed the slideshows that had to do with individual Latino/a students. I presented the experiment that the author presented
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.
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
I think my group did a really good job of incorporating everyone’s ideas so we all got an equal share in the presentation. Before anything was added to our presentation we always asked the opinions of the other group members. Everything that we presented on had an influence of every one of the group members, so everyone was able to say they had a part in every part of the presentation. We split our presentation into different parts and assignments, and each member had their own influence. Overall I can say that I would not ask for a better group for the Youteach presentation. We all were respectful of everyone’s opinions, and accepting of everyone’s ideas. We worked together so I cannot say that one person put in more work than the other. Even outside of our meetings, my group members were available to me when I needed them and vice versa. If I would not have had the group that I had, I do not think that I would have enjoyed creating this presentation as
Firstly, there are the different viewpoints in the group that make it hard to cooperate with one another. In groups, there are different personalities, making it hard to fit everyone’s ideas into the project. The
Experience has shown that smaller groups may be dominated by one or two members of the group, while larger groups are difficult to manage and inhibit participation by all members of the group”.
This would have given them a better idea of what to say about the sense they chose. I felt that some of our group members could have had more to say about their sense and were slightly unprepared. I also believe it could have been because they were nervous. Next time I would practice presenting our collage in front of our group before we did in front of the class, that way we can give each other presentation tips. I also like the idea of not working in groups because I enjoy doing my own thing without others input. The only thing about working in groups I enjoy is doing less work and not feeling overwhelmed with the amount of work that is
Tuckman proposes that groups develop via five stages; forming, storming, norming, performing and finally adjourning (Archee, Gurney, & Mohan, 2013a). The first stage, known as forming, involves clarifying the task and purpose of the group, and identifying boundaries of both the task and interpersonal behaviour (Archee et al., 2013a). For the presentation task we were randomly allocated into groups. This worried me greatly as I have struggled in the past with group members who do not contribute equally or see the task as important as other group members. To avoid this problem, the group collectively determined and agreed upon a number of ground rules. For example, we decided that all group members were expected to contribute equally to the presentation, all group members were expected to attend and contribute at all group meetings, and all group members would adhere to agreed upon deadlines. Having failed to do this in previous group assignments, this clarification stage