Working In Groups

Working in groups is a difficult thing, everyone has varying opinions on how things should be done and no one can ever meet at the same time. It is a challenging process just trying to get all group members to meet and once you do there is always the chance that one person changes their mind or forget, this results in slowing down the group and overall just making people annoyed. While working in my group I noticed several different concepts that had been discussed within the class occur in my group. My group consisted on three other individuals, Vanessa, Tayler, and Kevin. I had never met Tayler or Kevin before and had only had Vanessa in one other class that was over a year ago so we basically had begun as strangers and our communication reflected as much. I was very uneasy working in a group as I typically am an independent worker and relying on other has never been something that I have been fond of. While this group project may have started on the wrong foot it ended up opening my eyes to the way groups interact and allowing me a way to potentially better future group experiences. …show more content…
There are two situations where this occurred. The first is when deciding who would do what, I was originally given just the conclusion. I felt that it was really not that much to do, so after I expressed my concerned Vanessa had suggested that I help with the activity in order to give me a fair amount of speaking time. The other situation that came up was when it came to picking a video. Originally Vanessa had picked a video, and Tayler seemed to like the video, I however felt that the video did not really relay the message as clearly so I found another video. After showing the team the video and asking for their input we decided to change the