“What’s going to work? Teamwork!” as my childhood heroes, The Wonder Pets, have said time and time again. A group project consists of collaboration within all team members, a planned schedule, positive attitude, and a well thought out methodology. However, not all things turn out like you’d hope they would. What I’ve learned from doing this group project is that you need to keep an open mind, have a thought out plan, and the most important communicate.
Relying on people to do their own part in a group project requires a lot of trust, which I had very little from the start. A huge error that was taken place in the project was that there was hardly any trust where I thought my group was capable of doing their own tasks. In some cases, it would have been my wrong doing for not having faith in my own classmates, but they did what I expected and decided to do the work the day before. Though I knew that they did not want to participate I learned that throughout time they truly cared about their grade and wanted to get the job done even if it was last minute. I soon realized that if I were in their shoes I’d want help even if I didn’t deserve it. Keeping an open mind by helping my group out even under the conditions we got the job …show more content…
From the beginning we should have planned out a better way for everyone to get an equal distribution of work that would be best for all of us, but that unfortunately didn’t happen. The second thing I learned from this group project was that everything should have been more organized. Setting exact dates and times on when we should have gotten each slide done would have been less stressful and more efficient. Knowing that we had two weeks to get the PowerPoint done my group and I still decided to procrastinate. The fact that nothing was getting done aggravated me, and learning from my mistake I’ve realized planning specific schedules is what needs to be done the next time I have a group