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Those two words alone are enough to make both the young and not so young feign illness to stay home from work or school.

What image comes to your mind when your hear the words “group project”?

How to Deal with Group Projects...

As we all may know by now that the end of semester is pretty much full of group projects and assignments. And from my personal experience, I believe that I have learned different techniques to handle group projects.

1.       Start ahead and get ideas together when the project is assigned.

2.       Become a leader and get the group members on track.

3.       Divide up the tasks with in the group. (Remember as a leader; take the responsibility of finishing up the project on time.)

4.       Give the group a personal due date to make sure the final project gets turned in on time.

5.       And most important of all, don’t let the group’s grade suffer because of one member. Talk to that individual if necessary. And keep your professor informed about the group updates.

Group projects need a lot of extra attention in order for it to turn out perfectly. It is very important to know how others can be affected in your group because of the lack of an individual’s responsibility.

Communication is another important factor to keep in mind. Everyone as a team needs to know the updates of the project. If for any reason you may have problem finishing up your part, just let the group leader know and the group members can work as a team to help that individual out. As long as everyone communicates well with others, group projects can be an easy A.

And of course, the professor can see the hard work that the group members have put in there. So don’t procrastinate, just work as a team to create a fun and successful assignments.

Good Luck everyone!

Final Projects in Communication "Impress Me"

This was my professors final project in our small group class. “Impress me.” Not only do I have other classes, but now one of my classes gives me an assignment and NOBODY knows what it is... not even him! How did this turn out? Well, it didn’t. Let me explain.

After MANY ideas got thrown around, my group decided we would post signs from our professors’ house to the classroom telling him about how much we loved our semester in his class. (A pervious assignment included a meal at his house, see my Girls Just Wanna Have Fun blog, so we knew he lived only across the street.) To accomplish this task we decided to meet at school at 6AM the day the project was due. This was the first of our many mistakes. Our Morning:

6:00 AM: One of our group members forgot their part of the signs, another member did the wrong part, and yet another member would not wake up no matter how many times we called. We had no Markers and no paper!

6:15 AM: Borrow supplies from the Herrington Patriot Center to make our missing portions of our project.

6:30 AM: Head back to our get-away-vehicle.

6:35 AM: Our missing group member finally wakes up.

6:40 AM: The stapler newly purchased for this project does not work!

6:45 AM: We remember our professor has a dog after he chases us out of the yard.

7:00 AM: We split up one group to get a camera and one group to run and get Duct Tape from their house.

7:05 AM: Sign hanging officially begins

Group Projects

Oh the joys of group projects.

I'm taking a Tech 2323 course that's in the business core this semester and the final exam is a group project.
I got put into the "special" group with the teacher's unofficial student assistant.
The group consists the student assistant, myself (the marketing person, Douglas (our graduate accounting mastermind, Dylan (financing) and added later Shawn (the charts guy)
  We've hit crunch time for the project.
We've got all the numbers and charts done by Shawn, Dylan and Douglas.
Now it's just got to be put together.
That's my job and the TA.
It's getting a little frustratining as the people who have done their work are "like no, man, we're good" "the project's excellent"
Yeah. it's pretty unfinished. Totes not awesome.
Anyway. Why did I tell you all this?

So I can give some tips to how to avoid group conflicts.

1. Step back from the situation. Look at what's happening. Find a solution.
2. If it's bad enough that it will effect the work of the project, tell you professor. your grade is at stake.
3. TALK it out with the person. confrontation has a fifty fifty chance of doing some good.