I wanted to do a blog
on something really cool this week and totally unrelated to the group work we’ve
been doing but I think I’ve run out of any creativity and freedom of thought. I’ve looked up every science website to find inspiration
which I think has left to find greener pastures. This leaves me with the suggested topics; oh
hum……
How my team is
working/not working – frustrations and successes/decision making processes
My team has been
working, bloody hard, to get through the huge amount of work we’ve had to do
these past months. Who’d have thought it
would have been so full on that my mental stability and stress levels have hit
an all-time high. It has taught me
something though, there are actually people out there that want the best for
others so they do the best they can for the sake of the group.
With not having much
experience in groups, I dreaded this paper.
The thought of having other people that I don’t know read my work was embarrassing
for me because I’ve always worried that my skills were not up to scratch. But how wrong was I? This team has shown me how to be proud of my
work, have given huge amounts of support and encouragement; something I’ve
never experienced before in many aspects of my life. I must admit it’s pretty cool.
The team comes with
different skill sets that just seem to gel.
We’re able to give advice and listen and negotiate and get on with
it. In the early days I’m sure there
were a few frustrations. I know I had a
few. Mostly with myself and how I couldn’t
communicate what I needed to to the group.
My topic had a wickedly huge scope and I believed that my topic should
have been phrased differently. I couldn’t
help but feel like this may have affected my relationship with the group, even
if it was just my own perception. Nevertheless,
I got over myself and the more I read the more I convinced myself to let go of
the old.
I’ve really enjoyed the
decision making in this team. It’s been extremely
natural and easy. Someone brings
something up, we negotiate, we vote, consensus, action.
The team’s successes
far outweigh the negatives and I hope that it shows just how great our ‘team
work’ was, with an awesome grade.
Regardless, I think I will come away with a totally different perspective on working with
others and; to my team I would like to thank with immense gratitude. I don’t think I would have gotten this far
without you guys xx
6 comments:
Hi Marina,
I can completely relate to a lot of what you said. I was also nervous about working in a team, and felt really stressed about having to bring up issues. I felt that it would affect your perceptions of me and put me on the outside a bit. Although I'm sure it did cause frustrations, it was such a relief to me that you were all open to discussion and we managed to work things out really well.
Thanks for all your hard work as part of te team. I'm glad to hear that this experience has given you more confidence in your work, and rightly so, because you did a great job.
Cheers,
Michelle
Hi Marina,
I dreaded the idea of group work as well. I dodged anything like this all through my education previously and it's been really eye-opening working with a good group like this.
I'm really glad you've learned to be proud of your work. Your writing is really good and you should be proud of it!
It's nice reading all these posts and seeing that we all have similar opinions on our team's strengths and struggles and that we all agree that we've been a great team.
Hi Marina,
I was a bit sick of the suggested topics too. After reading Michelle's posts, I really wanted to write something of my own but could find nothing that was new or too interesting. I've seen some cool space stuff, but "the people don't want to hear about space stuff Floyd!" (My partner, Rachel, 2017).
It is nice seeing the team get on so well and be so positive this far into our course though. Our tutors are probably going to be so sick to death of hearing us cream over each other in our blogs haha. Who cares, we've earned it :) And yes, while they seem to be uncommon, there are people in the world who will look out for their fellow (wo)man without a personal agenda.
In regards to your topic, I think I remember it being at the bottom of my preference list. This is largely due to the incredibly large scope of situations it can fall under, it's a very sensitive issue to discuss and people have such varying opinions on it. While I know it would have been an interesting topic to research, I wasn't prepared to go through the mental turmoil you were strong enough to endure.
Not long to go now, talk to you tonight :)
Floyd
Thanks for the heartfelt post Marina, you have been a great team member, assisting us to question, look deeper and analyse our own presuppositions. It is so easy to make judgement on a subject without really detaching emotional and moral prejudices and look critically with open eyes. What you said about "Someone brings something up, we negotiate, we vote, consensus, action" pretty much directly sums up how our team worked. We worked so well together and it will be sad to say good bye to you all because we have formed a bit of a bond through all of this :-)
Take care
Thanks guys. Floyd, I had actually started writing about the satellites in sky. When we were having the heatwave, the family would be cooling off in the pool at night and would look up to see if we could see any moving. But at that stage, I didn't want to know anything else and I literally didn't want to research something else...lol. Space would have been cool :)
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