Preventing Childhood Obesity Presentation Team

I worked on the young children and obesity presentation team. My team members were Angela Wells, Jenna Sullivan, and Annette Hein. After our team was full Annette asked right away if she could work on a specific part which I was fine with. I then decided to start a post and ask everyone what part they would prefer to work on. Angela then made a post and asked if starting an email would be ok with everyone because that was an easier way for her to be keeping in contact with us all. We were all fine with that and we starting exchanging emails to finalize our parts of the presentation. The part I worked on was defining what childhood obesity is as well as what the impacts to the child are. Jenna researched how to prevent childhood obesity.
Angela researched what the best practices are when working with children who are obese as well as in general how to help them. Annette researched why children can’t just “grow out of it” as well as why children eat when they are not hungry and why more children are obese today. Everyone agreed that we all had parts that we were happy with working on and ok with. Throughout the two weeks Angela, Jenna and I communicated the most about when we thought the assignment parts should be completed and who would be willing to put the presentation together.
We also communicated with each other when we had questions. I decided to take on the role of putting our final presentation together. We agreed that the group members would have their parts of the presentation to me by Saturday the 19th so that I could have time to put it all together and work on the general format to make sure it looked cohesive. I thought it was important that everyone have time to see what will be submitted before so that if anyone was unhappy we can make changes. I think we functioned well as a team during this assignment. We tried to keep communicating with each other when we had questions or were unsure about any aspect of the project. We had noticed that we had not heard from Annette for a few days about the project so we made sure to reach out to her again to make sure she was still ok with everything that was happening to which she responded that she was. I think we were all very respectful of each others time and ideas when it came to deadlines. Everyone was very helpful if someone needed clarification on anything which I
appreciated. I learned that communicating is so important when it comes to working as a team. It was nice when people responded in a timely manner to even just say that they were ok with everything that was happening. I think because we did have good communication that it helped to get the project done with little stress and it made it a good experience. I’m not sure that there is much that I would do differently in the future. I feel that we all put good effort into this assignment. Overall I feel we all listened, communicated, and worked well together.