Overcoming Group Challenges

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People usually experience some level of anxiety when they are faced with situations that they have never before encountered. However, overcoming these obstacles can actually prove to be beneficial to the development of an individual.
During my freshman year going into my sophomore year of high school I was placed in a group with three partners to work on our Science Fair project. Each team member had their own method of how they wanted to complete each task. We all often had disputes about final decisions that needed to be made in the best interest of the project. One day in particular the group was scheduled a very important meeting with each other after school to discuss the details of the project. Everyone was present to the meeting except for one team member. When it was time for the meeting to begin that team member was nowhere …show more content…

We constantly contacted the student to see if she would be able to attend the meeting or not, but we got no response from her. So after we dismissed the meeting we ran into our team member waiting outside for her car ride. We approached her to see what the reason was that she could not attend our imperative meeting. She had a nonchalant attitude and said that she did not want to be present to the meeting because she did not have the desire to be there and felt that she could handle the tasks on her own time. My initial feelings were extremely furious. I felt that it was unfair that other students had to put in twice the amount of their hard effort to pick up on the work that she was not there to undertake just because she did not want to be there. I was also upset to the lack of communication because the time that the group focused on trying to

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