Group Project Reflective Essay

Group projects can be beneficial or detrimental, and group projects are often stereotyped as miserable and stupid. In my past, I’ve done many group projects where I was the only person in the group putting any effort in. I was more than pleased to be in a group that contributed, so I didn’t have to do everything. Our group worked well together, and everyone made the environment fun. Basically, we all chose topics we wanted to go into detail about. After we came up with basic ideas about our topic, we would discuss them with the group and either move on or think of how to add to the idea. It was a very swell experience.
Our group process and dynamic was very good and it gave us an advantage to the other groups. At the start, our group was very …show more content…
People would complain of being hungry so they couldn’t concentrate (physiological) and other times we would be worried about a test coming up (psychological). We all had different expectations about how this project was going to go. As I said earlier, I expected to do most of the work and some in the group might have expected to do nothing. A few in the group had similar experiences to mine, so we empathized over that. As a result, we all decided to try our best and not slack, and we also compromised many aspects about this project like, the way to present, who presents when, and who gets what topic. The group was good at nonverbal communication. We would throw ideas out and if the other group members were busy they would nod in agreement.
There would be times it felt like they were selectively listening or ambushing me. Either they weren’t listening at all or they were listening carefully to find something wrong in what I said. The only time it every really felt like that was when I was stressed about something other than project so that was on me. After being in a room with four other people it can be annoying at times. This group was actually enjoyable and I never felt like there was anybody trying to boss me