Teamwork.... Oh Teamwork

In the first chapter of our book it talks about the stages that a team goes through until they start to meld together ad work well. We learned that the steps are: forming, storming, norming and performing. Throughout the semester I have seen my group go through all of these steps, and it wasn't until recently that our group went through the process.

At first we didn't really know each other, we were obviously in the forming stage. We worked for quite a while in the forming stage, I would even say for a majority of the semester. It was tough to try to get the group together because there was a serious lack of effort from multiple members of the team, in honesty I feel that all of us were guilty of this.

This lack of effort is what made us pull ourselves through the storming stage and into the norming and performing stages. The consulting project really made us get together and produce results in order to get the assignment on time.

I feel that this experience in groups has taught me how to deal with others who are assigned to a project even when times get tough. I feel like this is how the real world is, not everyone has the same level of priority on something as the others in a group do and frankly that is expected. What I have taken away is that problem resolution is an important skill to develop, and I will continue to work on how well I work with others in a group setting.