Reflection Of A Group

Starting the group out in the beginning of the semester, five of us were set into a group to get to know one another and to work cohesively throughout the semester. Matt, Shemron, Sam, and Giselle, and I all gathered around and introduced ourselves. We started off exchanging numbers and emails and some background information about each other. A group is composed of members each with different backgrounds this includes major, culture, and personalities. We were a heterogeneous group. We each have strengths and weaknesses different from each other. Getting to know one another I the first week was critical for us to brainstorm and evaluate places we wanted to volunteer at. One of the first clinches I think as a group that was minor, but one of our members didn’t want to work with kids. This took our first option off the list of options because we wanted everyone to be interested in the work we were going to be doing for a whole semester. We handled this perfectly taking his feelings into consideration and pushing through brainstorming, but making sure not to groupthink and even coming up with a lists individually before talking as a group. By doing this we successfully and I think with in the first week decided and contacted Loraine’s Soup Kitchen as our volunteer experience.

Each group member had an equal role within

We kept on task with meeting updates and agendas. We took the minutes of each meeting and made sure we stayed on task with a structure discussion. We had very constructive communication which also helped us be productive. This was a task group; “Task groups are groups of individuals brought together to accomplish a specific action or produce a product” (Fernandez). We also made a timeline for ourselves working backwards and setting deadlines for our articles and community service to be done. By doing this it helped us stay on task as well as having meeting and group chat updates every