Group Meeting Reflection

Our group has had a rough start and a rough finish for project 1. The group consisted of eight people and one would think with eight people the work would not have been so tough. However, we did work well together when we did work, we collaborated and agreed on ideas, and we worked together to achieve some sort of product. Unfortunately along the way there were communication issues, and confusion. In the beginning, it was bright and people seemed to want to do great work for the project. That feeling stayed consistent throughout the project, though some work effort did not. We immediately set up a meeting in order to discuss what we were going to do and how we were going to do it. It was during week one, when we had the very first meeting only four of the eight group members showed up. Brian, Bisi, Russell, and Rachel decided that we were going to finish 1984 by the next time we meet, write down relevant quotes from the …show more content…
Everybody who showed up seemed to have done so. In this meeting Brian, Bisi, Jess, Nick and Rachel were the members who were doing the deliberating and idea exchanging. When we tried to communicate with the others the response was either that they could not make it due to a previous engagement, or nonexistent. As the group meeting commenced, Brian started to emerge as a leader as we talked about what we read and the quotes we found. He had some of the most analysis and started to take charge about the direction of our way of thinking about the book. From his ideas we started to build onto each other and build a more developed idea on the institutions. We still wanted to be democratic, but it was difficult to involve everyone in the group on the decisions when not everyone was present. At the end of the meeting, Jess volunteered to do the essay, and would send us the rough drafts and that Rachel was to send an email to those who did not attend the