- Me-Brittney Waite- SM
- Sarah Freud- CM
- Megan Scharf- PRO
- Megan McGee-IS
We all learned our groups the next day of class after our interviews and although I would not have picked the other two girls in our group I put Sarah first as my group leader. Even though I would not have picked the other two girls I felt that we all worked decently well together. Me and Sarah knew each other before this class and I had another previous class with Megan Scharf. When we were trying to decide what our product or service was going to be we had a really hard time trying to come up with something that was original. We thought of a spring break thing and a few other but finally we came up with something for extreme sports. The problem was that Megan Scharf was not on board of what we were doing so we had to get her to be on board and believe in the product just as we did. That was our first problem of many. We all had different schedules which made it hard to meet so usually Sarah and I would meet and the two Megan's would meet which worked out because we just divide out our task that needed to be done. Another problem we had was that Megan Sharf did not participate as the PRO should by making the advertisements and brochures ect. She just assumed that it was our job to do them so we helped her but we also required her to do some of the work too. Overall our group did a good job of respecting each other and getting things accomplished but if I could go back and have another group I would.
Found this image on the Internet and I thought about my experience with group work in this class. I am not a big fan of group work in the first place because I always feel that I am doing all of the work. Communication is our major but that does not always mean that some people are good at expressing their opinions to the group. In our case, we had one person who was too opinionated and did not agree with anything the other three of us came up with. We ended up resolving the conflict of what product/service to do by compromising so that the one person disagreeing was happy with our product. Another problem we had was that Sarah and I did not trust the other two members of the group and without trust a group does not function properly. They use the word collaborative in the example above and this word to me means that we each are to do our part in the group. This is not what happen because two of us went to Walmart, two of us did the advertisements, and two of us did the poster board. As a whole we did not work well as a team.
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