About Me
Running Head: OBSERVATION
Group Self-Observation
Teambuilding 644
Towson University
HR Hooligans: Kelly Reese, Diane Luc, Robert Malone,
Doriane Oyane Ndong, and Daniel Williams
“All members shared equally on this assignment
and all group members deserve the same grade”
Conducting a post-mortem assessment of our group’s functionality revealed many things we did right, as well as some things that went wrong. There are several components, in hindsight, which would have improved our ability to effectively achieve group goals and objectives. Among the highlights of our group’s performance was the ability to get along well with each other from the team’s inception to its dissolution, so much so that the term hooligan ended up being an oxymoron for our group of friendly compromisers and collaborators. Nonetheless, our wonderful ability to collaborate and compromise led to several completed assignments that the group collectively submitted to our professor.
Other positive aspects of our group included the ability to communicate in a regular and consistent manner. Once the group established a set meeting time, we maintained it, adding additional meetings and correspondence via Blackboard and email as necessary. Interestingly, each group member at one time or another had conflicting demands which prevented them from attending a meeting or executing some aspect of an assignment by the group’s internal deadline. The group seemed to resolve these challenges quickly and effectively with other members stepping up to fill in the necessary gaps.
In addition to things that went right, there were several things that didn’t go as we initially planned. For example, the group began with a clear understanding of roles knowing from the beginning that members would have to step outside of their skill set to fulfill roles absent from our group, as apparent in our Beblin testing at the bringing of the semester (Prichard and Stanton, 1999). This...
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