Friday, March 25, 2011
There's No 'I' in TEAM
The first group assignment, in my opinion, was extremely useful. It gave me the opportunity to utilize the course material in a real-life setting. The course material I am reffering to is Chapter 4 in the Group Communications text about Communication in Organizations. Working with my group mates was, and still is awesome and I cannot stress that enough. The text defines organizational communication as “the exchange of messages between organizational members or among members of different organizations.” If it weren’t for those exchanges, we wouldn’t have completed that assignment. I believe good communication and patience among group members is very important because these elements lead to success. Without these, failure is eminent and frustration is brewing. I didn’t know it, but I was reciprocating what I had learned not only for the sake of myself, but for my group members as well so that I am not labeled as the nuisance of the group.
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It was fun working you too! I enjoyed the first group project because it was useful. We need to do more assignments (not just in this class) which help us relate the material to the world. This project helped us identify what an editorial is; many people do not know what they are. People cannot recognize an editorial because not many people read print media anymore, and that is sad. People do not even pay attention to news at all. News is not an editorial though. News is fact based, while editorials are opinion pieces.
ReplyDeleteGirl, I know exactly what you mean. Aside from working with you guys, the paper itself allows us to better understand the information that we are reading and trying to understand through Epstein's text. I think communication is the biggest thing that allows a team to succeed or fail, and with the right communication and patience, a team cannot help but succeed. I think that the more communication a team or group has, the less frustration, like you mention, is able to brew. It is definitely fun having most of you as my group mates, you have to love the communication we all have with one another. <3
ReplyDeleteI agree with your post. Team work is essential when it comes to group work. With team work My group had to work as a team for our assignment as well. We were able to get everything accomplished due to great team work .If we didn't work as a group we wouldn't have gotten the work done. I like how you referred to Chapter 4 about communication in organizations .Communication is very important too. Without communication nothing would get accomplished. Now that the team work is established every assignment from now on should be a breeze because there is a great method to get everything accomplished.
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