Group Reflection Paper

Roles in the group have changed so much for me and so much for my group members throughout the semester. I thought that when we started going through the stages in our group, the role that we got was going to be the role we will have for the rest of the school semester. But that wasn’t true at all since I found myself changing roles more than once. I found myself fluctuating from being the initiator-contributor, elaborator, and energizer in the group task roles. It was very obvious when I would change from one group task to to another because the characteristics for every role are different and you start acting very different. Some maintenance group roles that I have experienced throughout my time in my group was to be the encourager-supporter,

I believe that we worked so much better in the first group project we had because we all started slacking in this project and didn 't get to work on the project in a timely manner. I know time management is hard, and we where able to find a way through it in the first project, but in this second group project the slackers in the group started to show and failed to meet my group expectations. In this group project there was an uneven distribution of workload and certain individual behaviors that brought out group moral down affecting our success. There was no time for all of us to meet up at once and get the work done that really affected the communication climate because of the lack of support and engagement by group members. Our group’s climate has always been good since we started to be a group in the begging of the class but a we got into our second project it started to get tense in our group climate. I have to admit Daniel is a very hard worker and he was the one to get most of the work done and I felt as if we were unfair to him by noting in a a lot of work not this project. He would always attend group meeting since we started this group since he wanted to screed in the class. Markella was another harmonizer in the group that also was hard worker but would always lave things for last minute. Chloe was a rally nice person but in the second

The very first in class activity we did was the Myers Briggs personality test that helped me see what type of person I am and in what ways I communicate better. Some other reflection assignments that made me learn about myself, for example were the work style assessment, argument style assessment, and classroom norms. The work style assessment made me learn about myself and in how I manage work and I have used what I found ever since at work and in my groups. The group style assessment that we did in class and at home helped me se how I deal with argument and my conflict style. A very informative and fun in class activity that we had was the classroom norms that mad bus learn that we expect of others in our classroom and ho we should act in our classrooms which have been very helpful. I became aware of many behaviors that I want aware of before that impacted my groups success. I became aware of my b=very upbeat tatted that always kept the group together and i found about my positive behavior towards everyone that made everyone feel welcomed in our group. I believed that I brought many strengths into my group for example my harmonizing effect, me leaderships style, my supportive behavior, my energy, my contribution to the work, and the time I put into this