Toughest Groups In My College Career

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.

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

Through out the process of creating our project as a group there wasn’t as many obstacles as I thought there would be. In other words, everything went smooth it was just what I wanted. I believe the reason for such great outcome was because we all learned how to work as a group and interact with each other because of our Chicano studies class. Knowing what we did wrong in group projects in that class certainly made me change and understand what group studies really are and mean. Therefore, there wasn’t any problems as a group we communicated well and if a person couldn’t meet up we would let them know how they could contribute and certainly they did their part.

Our group consists of Asmaa, Kelly, Sasha, and me, and our project is entitled, "Mental Health for Male Prisoners in the United States." It took several weeks to work on this research, and the project went very smoothly. As a group, we worked together well. Everyone was on time for our scheduled meetings, and we divided tasks so that each person had a clearly defined role within the group. There were no issues or problems during the times that we worked together. Although we were not personal friends at the time we began the project, we developed strong working relationships that highlight some of the positive aspects and outcomes of teamwork.

As a student of Santa Ana College, I have recently had the privilege to work on a group project. Our group assignment based upon making a postcard for our school. In which this highlights the importance of one of the facilities that Santa Ana College provides for the students. As a group, we choose the Child Care Center as our topic for the postcard. As I worked in the group, I felt respected and valued. I felt that my group volunteered and contributed equally. We decided that two of us would work on the postcard and the other two would work on the essay. As we continued with our project, we divided the work evenly in order to finish on time. My group and I had different tasks in order, and we worked together afterschool

The group I have been working with currently is the group I used in doing the self-assessment in chapter eight. I scored an eleven which is in the effective teamwork category. This group is a group of three married couple, all who are officers (pastors) of The Salvation Army. Lussier, & Achua stated in their book that all teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. (2013, p.278) Our group is definitely a team working with the common goal to run a week long bible/leadership camp. Each of us has been put in charge of different areas of this camp, such as; decorations, music, snacks, bible studies, and devotionals. Collective as a group we all live hours away from each other, one couple lives in North Platte, Cape Girardeau, and Detroit.

This project has been a very enlightening experience on how you have to sometimes let go of the control and let someone else take over. My grade will be based on a group effort instead of my own individual work and that really did leave me feeling uncomfortable especially since we were not allowed to choose who was in my group and who shouldn’t be in my group. I am lucky to say that after really speaking and interacting with my group members, Luna and Lasheika, I felt a lot more secure in my grade for this project. That is not to say we did not have any problems. At first, we had some technical difficulties that resulted in Luna not being able to communicate through group text but she

The main dysfunction I had experienced with this group was the lack of commitment. Two of the group members hardly ever came to class so trying to get a meeting setup was nearly impossible. Even trying to do a meeting over Skype was a hassle since they rarely attended those as well. This caused the project to stall out. Eventually, this caused one of the members to quit the group and go off on his own. I ended up having to complete the majority of the project on my own since any help the other two provided

The details of organization structure are part of this experience, our struggles in firing a member, working together on details, and communicating clearly were all evident last week. I felt like we needed to fire one team member before last week. There had been no response, and I knew it was going to hurt the team effort; but I also felt like the person needed an opportunity to contribute, as well as not wanting to be the team member who expressed the idea of firing someone else. If I can go back to chapter nine, I believe groupthink caused each of us to hesitate, even when we all knew what needed to be done. The third question on the assessment dealt with the genuine belief that others can do as well as I can, and I answered mostly true. I do believe that all people are capable, and need opportunities to succeed and prove it to themselves, but question seven was also answered mostly true, which stated that I get upset when someone doesn’t do the task correctly. That is the contrast between the perfectionist in me and the delegator. I enjoy the text messages and conversations on discussion boards in the collaborative work of classes, but when it comes to a team project, I worry about someone else not being as motivated or not getting the work in on time. I don’t mean that about my team members right now, I am reflecting more on past team projects in school. It has always been a couple of us doing most of the work, so we could bail

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.

These group members were Stephanie Seetoo, JasAndra Acros and Bethany Leung. We figured that there would be the most information if we chose to write about diplomat Townsend Harris (as well as Townsend Harris High School) and unanimously decided that this topic would be the best direction for our track to go into. I privately thought that this “creative writing” piece was going to be very uncreative and so I proposed that we could write from the points of view of different people that were affected by Townsend Harris’s actions. They all thankfully agreed that it would be a more interesting approach. Since a lot of the information for our characters was unknown, I was able to make a lot of creative while still realistic backgrounds to my writing piece. From then on, I had a very positive and optimistic view on the assignment and was eager to work on it and complete it with my group members. The only concern I had at that point was worrying about if my group members would do their fair share of the work. It turns out that an advantage to going to a school like Townsend Harris High School is that pretty much everyone is a good and reliable student in a group project. Together, my group and I created deadlines for our parts to be completed and managed to meet these deadlines easily. The creative aspect really helped me to feel motivated to do

During the planning portion there was defiantly a lack of participation among several of our group members. Although some members were lackadaisical(#1)in the beginning of the project they were able to hone(#2)in on the project and assist in its completion. The overall flow of our project was there was a person or two who organized the project and assigned people to tasks. For most of the part this system worked with out faults, but as everything involving groups there were some differences in opinion the cause of action for certain tasks but they were easily sorted out. The effort while exceptionally equal there were several people who preformed with a fallow attitude towards the project these people including Alex Maylay, Nikalaas Kolosso, Morgan Irving, Sean gallogly, and Harry Clevenger. Several people in the project preformed with flying colors, these people include Conner Berry, Hayley Rice, and Kate Albean. The made the most contributions and helped support the remains group members. The group had struggles in managing there time, but managed to get the job done even with the unexpected remodel on the final day of

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 semester, the eighth graders built bridges. My group included Meghan, Anglina, and myself. I feel that we all did the same amount of work. I feel Anglina really acted like the leader of our group though. Our teamwork was great because we didn't fight and enjoyed eachothers company.

My feelings about the group process was a little mix at first but, at the end I felt like we actually brought it together. Beginning of the group member were all over the place and had no direction, when we were able to take a breather in just think ideas started to flow. I felt like that took the communicator to make it happen. By reinsuring the other group members that everything will go smoothly if we just don’t overthink everything.