Reflection On Social Work Group

One aspect of this group project I looked forward to was the opportunity to work with new classmates. In my Groups and Organizations class, we have a semester wide group project to work on as well. I am in a group with a few students who are also in this class with me, therefore, I was excited to branch out even more by working with individuals I have not had an opportunity to work with yet. A second thing I was excited for was having the opportunity to work with fellow students who expressed interest in the target population I am wanting to ultimately work with in the social work field. On the very first day of class, all three of us expressed wanting to work with children in a healthcare setting. I was excited to hear about their passions …show more content…
In both instances, I was looking forward to interacting with new individuals. At the same time I was anxious and was uncertain how the experiences were going to ultimately play out. In my reflection paper I shared about a puppy and get to know you questions resulting in an ease of anxiety. There was no puppy in class, however, my group did engage in conversation to get to know each other a little bit during out first sit down together. Like stated previously, this verbal conversation between us allowed me to become more acquainted with my group members and it caused me to be more open with …show more content…
Instead, we all worked very cohesively together. As the semester went on I observed my group move through the four stages of group development. Like Stephanie discussed in class, identifying the four stages of group development was beneficial for our group. During the induction stage, we began to identify the goal of our project and our target population. In my opinion, with the help of class in general, our group moved quickly into the cohesive engagement stage. We understood what needed to be accomplished, we had established roles. We finally began to encounter the disengagement stage the day before our presentation was due since we had finally finished our power point (Prost, 2016). At times I was stressed out because there were a handful of class times where Shaunan was not there, including an in class work day. She had not communicated with us prior that she was not going to be there so this frustrated me a little bit. However, Shaunan did an excellent job at completing tasks outside of class, working on the power point and doing the research necessary without being reminded over and over which made me feel bad for being originally frustrated at her. What I learned from this is that I need to have more faith in the people I work with. I doubted her ability to produce her portion of the project, yet she turned around and surprised me by going above and beyond what was asked of her. Overall, this experience