Reflective Report on Group Work

censure on stem study Project subject field Page Content 2 Introduction 3 The gathering 3 My role in the Group 4 Difficult encountered during the convention plow 5 The demonstration 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Introduction When effective root management and high practiseup skills argon applied, meeting work goat bring students a wide range of skills and abilities related to great deal and job solving. Group work demonstrates students capacity to communicate effectively, consider and consider o flagst hotshotions, establish trust, analyse the collection process, resolve conflicts and as well expatiate their creativity.However, the constructive learning and beneficial results does non always m opposite as a result of gathering work. For instance, if the students can non perceive the physical object of the group work in order to achieve a putting green goal, or to lay back or believe that the work dilute can be relied on an new(prenominal)(prenomi nal) ph in alluss of the group making the single work less and still get an equal grade, the educational benefits can result in frustration and arguments as healthful as spark advance the whole group to a state of stress and anxiety. This essay reflects on my rich person wear outicipation towards cloudburst Project as a wander managing music director, also how I contributed in interpretingandresearchingthe degenerateBrief,as soundas my participation with thefinal notification.It also discusses the difficulties that emerged through come in the group work things that went well regards to the preparation and the areas that could fool been improved upon. The Group A group can be defined in various ways, for instance Charles accomplished (1993, p. 150) identified a group as any collection of people who perceive themselves to be a group in order to interact with one(a) a nonher. The group then is likely to go through a number of body structures which cover forming the grou p, the group passing from an undeveloped concept to a mature conception then going through a variety of stages from mutual acceptance and sectionship to control and organisation (Culliname, J. , 2007, p. 628)). My group went though the Tuckman structure which is defined as forming, storming, norming, executeing and adjourning.Forming initi onlyy the group was form of s flush students from the like class. on that point was no deliberation as to who would be in what group. There were only seven in the class and we were wedded the assignment to research the company Lush and from our findings we were to stage and run a successful and unique event on behalf of the company. In this stage, the singulars start to grapple the other fractions of the group and the group is uncertain of the prospective tasks and in that respect are no rules for the group work leading to a omit of steering and pertain. At the norming stage a clearer happenline was give backn, individuals had the chance to choose the roles in the group and procedures were taken from in that respect.The group consisted of a Project Director, two Logistics Managers, an depend Director, a Finance director and two Creative Directors where either had to come across to an agreement of a name for the group mettle Events and where severally individual group component would arrange an thinking to the rest of the group. At this stage emotion was sh hold and excitement expressed towards the work we had to do. A timetable for unvarying meetings was given to each individual of the group by the bem make use of director and at each meetings minutes were taken by one member of the group in order to keep mark of the work that had been done. Then comes the performing where the team knew each other and structure and guideline were clear and cohesive.The team now focused on a common goal of developing the cerebrations for the Lush event. At the beginning of this stage, all members of the group were getting together regularly and were constructing and expanding ideas for the project as well as for the presentment. However, unfortunately the group did not stay this way for very(prenominal) long. Distraction and lack of interest emerged bringing the whole group shovel in to anxiety and disagreement. I as group leader was rather washed-up in putting the team together and in demanding much than of a serious commitment from them. At this stage, the group should have been able to have endureed a successful project in the form of a notification.Instead, all the wicked work that had been done was diverted into a lack of interest and commitment resulting in a negative consequence. The final stage is the adjourning, where Essence Events group disbanded. The idea should be that the group dispersing should get together over again and reflect on the group work and see what went well and what did not go well and what should we have done differently. In this case, each member of th e group was asked to reflect on the group work on their own which faculty bring more benefit as an individual. My Role in the Group According to Culliname, J. (2007, p. 566), a leader aim to influence and guide others into pursuing ill-tempered objectives or visions of the future and to stimulate them into waiting to pass.A project director has the same principle of leader in the sense of being able to conduct tasks successfully, main(prenominal)taining teamwork and have a classless participation leadership on the project. At the outset, as the project director I felt that I would fit into the role easily and would be able to distribute different roles to each member of the group. However, I was on a steep learning curve where I would find out that as group leader not only are you expect to have your own ideas to pitch to the group, but you are expected to keep the group when an idea goes horribly wrong and the group then twirls to you for steerage and a solution of how to r ectify such fusss. Not only was the existing academic side of the group a shock, but the outside organisation of the group proved to be tough as well.Trying to pin down each member of the group to turn up at a particular time at a particular designate was a whole other project in itself as of crease each member had other work pieces to deal with at the same time, which needed the same amount of due care and charge as the Lush event presentation required. When separating responsibilities and separate individual projects to each member of the group I was well aware that not only did the report and research need to be done but we needed to go to Lush stores themselves in order to gather further research study to then take back to the group and compile our findings together to make a firm research file from which we could then discuss and sort what was considered to be primary information and what was secondary information.What we did was with each visit to the Lush stores we wou ld divide up the responsibilities and each person was responsible for gathering the individual information. The branches of research were mainly creativity, marketing, pricing, PH, promotion and target market. For instance, the marketing section one observation that the group made is that the door to the shop was always open. This was so that the smell of the products would reach the public outside and therefore attract their attention and ultimately attract consumers into the store to purchase the Lush products. When we pitched our ideas to the group, one of the group members suggested that we should run the Lush event based on the quadruplet seasons (winter, summer, autumn and quail).Each section included the right smell of the particular season, the right colour, such as darker heavier colours for the winter seasons and brighter colours for spring and summer. We emphasised the fact that Lush does not carry out any tests on animals and that all their products are environmentall y friendly and are also all natural products. Difficult encountered during the group work As with any group or team project it is inevitable that at virtually point throughout the time together there will be a minor or a major hurdle. This being that either one of the group members does not agree with a particular pitch or strongly disagrees with another persons idea(s). They may even precisely not get along with another member of the group.In the Lush situation all group members seemed to get along at the beginning, however, soon disagreement and arguments started to emerge on the events paper and meetings. As a general rule the ideas for the project were usually elect by the majority vote of the group. The problems that we as a group face were ones that we would generally expect to encounter. We as a group suffered from people not attending meetings. This could be down to lack of organisation, however, it is unlikely that this was the case as all members of the group were awar e of the time, date and location of the meeting. Some members simply did not turn up and failed to let the rest of the group who had turn up know that they would not be coming.This ultimately could be express down to the group leader, however, the leader can only do so much as the leader cannot be expected to force other members to turn up. As leader I could only send messages, emails and give phone calls and state the importance of the meeting but, could not make the individual turn up. Another problem we faced was as mentioned earlier there was a lack of interest from certain members, and this pushed its way through the group and affected others as they began to become irritated with the members of the group who, when they would turn up, not doing any work. This issue I addressed as I besidesk the respective(prenominal) group members aside and both explained the situation that they were putting the group in and asked what it was in particular they were not interested in.It beca me apparent that it was not the idea that they were not interested in, more the fact they simply did not neediness to share the workload, as they would not turn up to the meetings and hence causal agency the other members who did turn up to take on their work that they had not done as well as their own part of the project. organism fervent of not being able to complete the project in time for the presentation a few of the group members decided to startle putting the project together even though it seemed to be a lot of work to do for just a few members of the team. hardly third days before the presentation all group members seemed to be interested about the work again and a vast feeler was made and the members who previously had failed to turn up, turned up to what was supposed to be the last meeting and the work was again shared equally and stainless .This although seemingly positive in the short term for the group project, was comparatively short lived as it had come too lat e and there was a lot of ground to cover in order to deliver our presentation. This created the problem that there was not as much time as we had hoped for. The foundation The last minute work reflected in our final presentation because as a result there was a distinct lack of fare for the final presentation. The problems during the actual presentation were that due to the lack of practice there was no rattling deliverance of each members part as they had not pre-read their material beforehand and in effect, the actual presentation was more of a reading practice than of the finished article.Our first main practice was about a few hours before the final presentation was due and this was where I as group leader had to explain that I had told the members that this was the situation that we would be in if we carried on the way we were going three weeks prior to the presentation date. This led to a select few of us being able to deliver our part in a paid way, however, rendering the remainder of the project unfinished. We started late as one member who was responsible for the budgeting aspect of our project had failed to complete final checks on their pageantry and as a result during the presentation their part failed to initialise causation a major delay whilst they left and went to go and print pip their part to present.Upon reflection, the above situations were somewhat out of my control as group leader as I could not force the members of the group to turn up and do their part, also being unable to reach the other members due to them not tell my messages or simply not answering phone calls left the rest of the group in a hard situation as we were unaware as to whether they were doing their part of the project. These issues as same were out of my control somewhat, however, I feel that my role as project director was not fully satisfied as I did not quite deliberate responsibilities as much as I might possibly have wanted to if given the same opportunity again.There were many ideas from the group at the outset of the project, however, there was no real development of these ideas and this may have been what caused the lack of guidance from the project leader. in like manner as group leader it is a challenging situation to be in as it is easy to be forceful and blunt at the beginning of the project, however, I chose perhaps too soft an approach for too long a period and this is what perhaps led to some of the group members failing to keep up to date. Upon reflection, we as a group did deliver our presentation however, it was not as good as what we cowcatcherly musical theme when compiling our ideas. There was a lot of potential for the group and the idea of the Four Seasons was something that we felt as a group would enable us to succeed in our endeavours as a group.However, if I am to perform my role correctly, must shoulder the responsibility as it was up to me to have directed the ideas much more thoroughly, and if given the opp ortunity again, I would roughly definitely do so, as good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from dismal judgment. For the final presentation, I gave the idea and it was accepted by the group that we should use a flip chart as this mirrored the fact that Lush also used natural products. We used a lot of visual representation as we felt that this would be a much more observer friendly method of communicating our ideas across. The pictures that we used were all from pickup cut-outs. At the presentation, we did not have just one sole speaker, each member of the group spoke on their respective areas of responsibility. Myself and another member of the group gave the main invention to the presentation and a small introduction to each speaker.Due to the lack of practice I was very anxious and tense resulting in a bad opening and followed by the other member of the group. The timing was very accurate and the presentation ended with a simple but effective conclusion fo llowed by answering all direct questions made by the panel. In order to have delivered a better presentation the group should have had better commitment to what the original aim of the group was at the outset of the project. Critically, the leader should have relayed a better understanding of what was expected in order to complete our presentation to a high professional standard. Conclusion According to J. F. Benson (1987, p. 1) Group work in practice refers to the conscious, disciplined, and systematic use of knowledge about the processes of incarnate human interaction, in order to intervene in an informed way, or promote some desired objective in a group setting. In our groups presentation, the idea of disciplined knowledge was what we as a group failed to achieve as we were unable to have the full group in one place every time we consistent a time to meet. Although groups generally elect a leader, there are as always exceptions to the general rule. A group is a team, a democ racy, not a dictatorship. A group needs to have its own ideas and aims, so that a high level of morale is maintained throughout the group.If there is one person who decides upon everything with no concept of what it is like to hightail it as a team, the team will fail, due to a lack of interest and commitment. 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