Why Do Group Work

There are three kinds of jobs: first jobs where people have to work alone without any help, second kind of job is where you have to work in a group, and finally the third kind looks for equal work: invidual work and work in a group.

Group work has been a cornerstone of the social work profession and requires a variety of facilitator skills and awareness of group processes. The SSLDTM Group Program for People with Difficulties in Social Situations (Socialwork1914, 2017) provides an excellent example of a psycho-educational group co-facilitated by two female social workers, Jane and Karen. After viewing the 6th session of this 8-week program, I began to understand how the concepts of group formation/development, interpersonal dynamics, and leadership styles contribute to successful group work outcomes.

I think that the group I had for this project worked pretty well. There was no dominant leader in the group, and I don’t think the work in our group was balanced equally. I feel that some people in our group did more work than others. Also, I was the only girl in this group, so it was good to have another girl in the next literary year in pictures assignment. From working on this assignment, I learnt many things. One thing that I learned is when we do these assignments, you really need to balance out the time you spend on each panel. My group spent way too much time on the first panel, causing us to have to rush on the last panels. We were limited on time to finish, so it would have worked out better if we spent the same amount of time on each panel. Also, involving working together, I learnt when we are doing this assignment we cant spend much time making sure everyone is doing their job perfectly. We should let people do their role by themselves and not focus on their job or else we spend too much time on one job, which is what happened in my group. At the beginning, everyone was too focused on the drawing of the first panel and this wasted a lot of

One of the biggest debates in high school athletic programs is should a talented student participate in multiple sports while still having classwork, or is it too much of a burden on them to cause a lot of stress? As many do not know, Jackie Robinson was a star athlete in four sports at the University California, Los Angeles; football, basketball, long jump and of course, baseball. I, on the other hand am just a two sport athlete. I play tennis in the fall and basketball in the winter. The barrier that I face is not only trying to perform excellent on both courts, but in the classroom as well. Through commitment and determination, I've managed to push through.

Group activities are a great way for children to gain knowledge about their peers, educator’s and the communities’ cultures and traditions. Children are able to visually see the different cultures and experience them for themselves in a group setting that would be interactive and visually stimulating. An educator could play some different language greetings on a CD and have the children repeat what they hear, to represent each of the children and staff at the centre. Giving the children an understanding of the diverse cultures at the centre will enhance their understanding and promote equality and minimise discrimination. When the children are in group setting it challenges their thinking and introduces alternative thinking to foster portative

The learning activities that will be the main focus of the sequence of lessons will be independent work and small group work. My rationale for choosing independent work is that this gives students the opportunity to test themselves on how well they know the material. It, also, allows for me to see where they are at individually and to manage their growth throughout the lesson. My rationale for choosing small group work is because it allows for students to work more personally with me in a more comfortable environment. Some students become intimidated and don’t feel comfortable to ask questions they may have in front of the whole class, but do when they are only with four or five other students. It allows for a better learning environment.

Throughout your entire life you have to collaborate with people to get things done. As you get older and have to get a job, you will have to work with others to get things done, no matter if it is flipping burgers or a job that is considered to “more successful”. There are many benefits to both situations, but the one that would benefit you the most in life would be the one where you have to work with others because it will help you succeed.

Our group consists of four unique students: Lakendria Gibson, Veronica Williamson, Macalia Owens, and Brianna Coleman. Since we had the pleasure of picking our own groups in class, we were more than happy to be working with each other. We all have different strengths to contribute to the group including communicating with each other, researching the topic, putting the paper together, or maintaining the stocks; therefore, we decided to use everyone’s different attributes separately to complete the project. That way, everyone had something to do and no one would be disengaged with the project or given a grade they did not earn. Maintaining the balance of the group was not easy though we can’t say we didn’t enjoy working together. Overall, if we had the opportunity to be in groups again, we would continue to work with each other.

Any profession can make use of group, but only trained social workers can utilise social group work

Teamwork is a key component of any job, but it is especially vital in health care. Teamwork in health care employs the practices of collaboration and enhanced communication to expand the traditional roles of health workers and to make decisions as a unit that works toward a common goal (Manser, 2009). It is important for students to build an effective set of group work skills while attending school in order to be prepared and successful for a career in health care. Initially, my group and I thought creating a presentation on how unconscious bias impacts health care would be an easy task, but we quickly realized the difficulties of working in a group.

“ Great things in business are never done by one person.They’re done by a team of people.” This was spoken by Steve Jobs, It means that we accomplish more together, than alone. I included this in my essay to help me explain the reasons why I am for group work. Reason why I am for group work is for communication, responsibility, and how you can learn from others.

There is a gradual release of responsibility from teacher to students for the lesson and its outcomes. This assignment is a total class participation and no student will finish early.

According to my scores, I am someone who is more likely to lead with an emphasis on relationship, rather than on task. The result of this assessment surprised me, because I tend to be a perfectionist in regards to deliverables. However, I have never enjoyed delegating to tasks to others because of the control factor. My preference is to complete a task alone, because it is difficult to deal with personalities and politics within a group. If I am forced to work with a group, I am much more likely to make suggestions to my group members, rather than telling them what to do. This behavior stems from my desire to work in harmonious groups, which may explain my inclination to lead by relationship. Further, I believe that followers are humans, who have a life beyond accomplishing group tasks. For example, when I was queen of the DRYL, one of the princesses, Cheyenne, relinquished her title due to school and cheerleading pressures. Although some members of the DRYL thought I should convince Cheyenne to stay on as a princess, I did not want one of my followers to be stressed out. Even though the other princesses and I could have used Cheyenne’s help for fundraisers, I put her individual needs above the group.

A group is defined as "a set of two or more people who interact with each other to achieve a common goal” (Gliddon, 2009).Group C was formed randomly by Professor Charles at the beginning of the term to complete various tasks as a unit throughout the MGT 5020 course. The Group consisted of eight (8) members, three (3) males and five (5) females with distinctively different personalities, ages, ethnic backgrounds and experiences. As a group we went through the evolution and dynamics of any random collection of individuals working together. Group C could be described as a Task Group as our main objectives for formation were to complete three assignments that require diverse inputs, different creative ideas, a cohesive unit

More and more group works have been found in the nowadays world. Group work has been shown effective in productivity and satisfaction at workplace (Katzell & Guzzo, 1983). Meanwhile, group works are also found in higher education, many courses are assessed by workshop, group presentation and final group project. Owing to the collaborative power, students are more active to learn in a group than study individually (Ruel et al, 2003). Taking the part-time MBA course as the example, here we will evaluate the usefulness of group work as a pedagogical tool. Group dynamics are impactful in academic aspects along with managerial skills development (Muff, 2012). However, there is potential drawback and problem may result from group work, so that the strategies to minimise problem and its potential effects will also be discussed.