Self Evaluation

Reflecting back to my self-evaluation, there is a sense of achievement in the amount of contribution I made towards my group presentation. Initially I felt intimidated by one of my classmates. Every time I threw out an idea she shut it down. This group member I conflicted with at first ended up quitting. I took that as my way in to take the leadership role. I was confident to announce my idea proposals and listen to my group members inputs. Informing my group that one of my strong skills is PowerPoints led to them all agreeing I could attribute with that. The first few times the group simply kept agreeing with all of my ideas infinitely I decided to assign them details of certain restaurant details. I kept up with checking my emails and providing …show more content…
This was when I asked everyone what their skills were. The ones that said "I don't know" well I assigned them a category to go into detail about. Three out of four of us kept in touch through emails and I would suggest edits to their works. By the third time we met, my group members would seek my approval for ideas. I was astonished at the leadership role I developed during this third meeting. It became natural and effortlessly I would provide my honest feedback. It all went smoothly until I realized one of our group members hasn't really done any work. At this point I realized, well do I suggest firing him or should I attempt to provide him with an opportunity to show us his skills? I thought of the tasks that were left to do, realizing we needed an outline of each of our slides. This was his only task. More details will follow in each group members evaluation, but I realized I wanted to be the "boss everyone likes" which ended up affecting my group in the end. I did take it upon myself that our restaurant had not been presented to its full potential. It served as a big lesson, I realized in order to be a great leader not everyone has to like