Working in Groups

There are many different challenges involved in working with teams. It involves clear and effective communication as well as productive behavior from every team member. Learning to balance these aspects of working with a group of people is difficult. People have different opinions and ways of doing things. Sometimes we have to be willing to back down and be willing to go with another team members idea for the sake of being most effective. This is something that I continuously am striving to perfect. A lot of times the way that we communicate things with others can cause conflict. We have to be careful in our wording and we need to be understanding when things don't go, or are not communicated exactly right. Working with my group, in this class, has taught me important lessons regarding communicating more effectively and being the as productive as possible. If we work closely with our team members, we can cut down significantly the amount of time the project would have taken simply working on it alone.