Initially, I had a negative view on group working because of the challenges that I had. When I was in high school, my five other friends and I used to work together in a music competition. Although we were supposed to get together to practice for the event, we were only able to meet up once a week. In addition to having a hard time with time scheduling, we often did not have a consensus of opinion. Whenever we had a discussion, we usually ended up with no results. So it always took a long time for us to make a decision. Consequently, the performance did not turn out as well as we expected. Because of this initial failure, I thought group work was time consuming and ineffective. However, I have changed my opinion lately because of the successful results in some of my laboratory classes. In each laboratory assignment, it is nearly impossible to work by myself because there are a lot of steps and each step needs to be very precise and accurate. Therefore, a group of two or three students will work more effectively compared to an individual because they can help to remind each other and finish the assignment faster. Based on those experiences, one more time I give myself a chance to work in a group and figured out how work effectively. Finally, thank to the Small group communication class, I found out that group work can become very productive if all the members in the group cooperate and follow the principles of small group communication. In this paper, I want to talk…
Many group projects fail when the group members are not on the same page. Some group members join a particular group for the members in the group and do not grasp the group’s goal. Some groups do not have much diversity, and the group members all have the same outlook without seeing flaws in their project. When the group members are not certain of the group’s goal the group often fails. The group will not accomplish their goal if some group members do not complete their tasks. When member join a group for social reasons and do not work toward the group’s goal they are not helping the group succeed.…
Groups are made u of individuals with varying personalities, backgrounds and ideas. For a group to work well a bond needs to be developed. Every group needs a leader and each member should feel a sense of belonging, a reason and purpose for their presence in the group. Each and every group experience will have a different lesson that can be learned whether good or bad.…
Effective work groups are essential to the survival of any business. As I thought about the groups I belong to I tried to find reason one that was effective that I did not oversee. Unfortunately, the only effective group that this applied to was a group I once belonged to at my previous company. This was the internet marketing group at a Timeshare company. Before I am able to talk about my group specifically I feel it is important to define what it is that makes a group a group. A group is “Two or more individuals in face-to-face interaction, each aware of the others who belong to the group, and each aware of positive interdependence as they strive to achieve mutual goals” (Johnson & Johnson, 2006). A group needs to integrate the multiple realities that individuals bring to it. Many believe that people who think alike or have similar personalities make up an effective group, when in reality they do not. This group was made up of three individuals, my subordinate Karen, my Director Jodi and myself. Together the three of us were responsible for developing a marketing plan and executing it to bring in six million dollars a year. This was a very important task to generate six million dollars a year in a department that was just started. Our work group was extremely effective for a variety of reasons. We knew how to communicate with each other, we had clearly defined individual roles, and we had great leadership.…
It is important to encourage our students to learn in the groups. There are just some of the skills they can develop through the group work:…
Working in a group had multiple advantages. When working in my group, we got every members input on how the essay should sound and what exactly we would do in a zombie apocalypse. Also, we broke the essay and had everyone write two paragraphs. Working in a group also as its disadvantages. The worst part about working with others is depending on everyone to do their part in the project. I just had to trust my group would come through and finish their work. This experience changed the way I think about solving problems,…
A group is a two or more people working with each other consistently to attain common goals. Individuals in the group are dependant on each other to advance toward the common goal within a certain allotted period. A group working in a potato chip factory might have a time period of a day to achieve the goal of 10 tons of potato chips. While a group working to merge to large banks might have six months or a year to finalize the merger of the banks.…
In my opinion the success of a group can only be achieved by turning our individual skills, thoughts, and research into a melting pot of ideas. As individuals in a group we are dependent on each others strengths, qualities, and views; as well as the recognition of our flaws to be successful. The…
Group work is something that has been hit or miss in the work or school world for a very long time. There is a very negative attitude about group work the second it is assigned. The truth is that group work can actually make the performance of the individuals go down but, there are also very positive aspects to group work that many people don’t usually think of. In this paper, I will explore some of the pros and cons to group work, look at some possible solutions to the problems, and I will reflect on some of the past experiences I have had in group work.…
When effective group management and high organisation skills are applied, group work can bring students a wide range of skills and abilities related to people and problem solving. Group work demonstrates student’s capacity to communicate effectively, share and consider opinions, establish trust, analyse the group process, resolve conflicts and also develop their creativity. However, the constructive learning and beneficial results does not always come as a result of group work. For instance, if the students can not perceive the objective of the group work in order to achieve a common goal, or to lay back or believe that the work load can be relied on other members of…
2. Group work activities and projects support student learning by having us learn with our peers as an additional option besides learning from the course materials and the professor. Learning with our peers also helps us learn together as a real class because we will get to interact with each other.…
For this project you will write a narrative essay about a significant moment of your life using the literary strategies of plot, character, and setting. This should be a moment when you learned something important about yourself or someone else, or about life. You will develop your story through the use of contraries, creating tension that moves the story forward and gives it significance. You can discuss the importance of your story explicitly, perhaps as a revelation, or you can imply it. Either way, it should be clear that you have contemplated the significance of the event and have pushed your thinking past the obvious, surface-level impact. The focus of your narrative should be “The Moment,” with only enough background to convey its understanding to the reader.…
Some people like working in groups, while others find it more effective to work alone. Eitherach way of working has particular advantages, but a lot of people like to work in team due to several reasons ; however, in my opinion, studying in groups is a better choice for several reasons. First, working in groups exposes us to a wide variety of ideas, some of which we might have never have thought of on our own. Quite a few dDifferent perspectives may lead to many various ways to solve the problems of work. For example, if we have work in a group of three and try totrying to deal with a difficult project, all that we need is to find the a proper way to work on this one. So many options are available here. Everybody in our the group have has the opportunities to show their own solutions. In the end, we could combine these solutions into one select the best solution to the problem that makes the project moving forward. Meanwhile, working independently, we are lack of support. We have to make decision by ourselves without anyone showing us if our decision is right or wrong? Secondly, when we have work in a team, volume of work can be divided among members. ( the workload can be shared equally among members). Each person has the chance to pick a task most suitable for him or her, which saves a lot of time and effort. That takes us less time to accomplish our task. Working alone, in contrast, we must carry out every single task of work, and take responsibility for everything we we’ve donedo . It may be one of the reasons to slow down our working process down. Finally, teamwork helps improve the relationships in the community. Regardless of who we are, we need to communicate with other people like your colleagues or your customer. Working together, we could share our opinions, experience with each other, which would strengthen our bond of friendship which doesn’t exist when working alone. In conclusion, working individually may play a significant role in some…
In this paper I will explain how and why teams and groups are formed, the different types of groups and effectiveness of work groups. The process of a group activity is the interaction and mutual influence among group members as they complete the group activity, communication, leadership, conflict, conflict resolutions and norms of behavior in the group. A group is two or more people who interact with each other to achieve certain goals or needs. The purpose is to accomplish the same goal using my skills, personalities, abilities and experiences to be more effective. “Group forming is a process and there are five stages for group development: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.” (Hunter, Dale, Bailey, Anne, Taylor, Bill, 1995).…
There are many advantages we can get from study in group. Firstly, we can share our opinion with another members. As you know, first stage in study group is brainstorming. From brainstorming, all of members must call out one or more ideas to complete the topic discussion. Here, we can collect and gather many ideas base on topic discussion. After this stage, we can discuss how to build the whole body of topic. Study in group make it better and easy if the topic is hard and complex.…