Personality Profile

How do the people in your group affect the outcome of your work?

As I stated in my last post about group work, I don’t enjoy it. I worry about how the others will do working in the group. There are some people who help in the group and then there are those folks who don’t really care about anything. For some reason, I always got put with the group of slackers. Maybe because the teacher thought I could motivate them to do work. Well, that was not the case. It happened all the time in my English classes. And honestly, it started to piss me off. I started to hate group work, and when we did have group work I would beg my teacher to let me do a project by myself. I usually had a good argument, and ended up doing projects by myself. 

It makes me nervous to do group work. I am afraid that people wont pull their weight and leave one or two of us to do the entire project. And in the end their name gets put on the final project. 

When we were assigned our groups for out Wikki page, I was a little concerned. I hadn’t ever talked to either one of the people in the group, and I hadn’t read any blog posts from either of them either. I was nervous. So when our new groups were assigned, and Ms. Sasser asked if we wanted to be in new groups I was thankful. I was excited when Christian claimed me. It seems like he and I are one of the very few who talk in class. I am a talker, and I enjoy participating in discussion. I wanted a group where I could have a good discussion with the people. People who are shy aren’t good group workers, in my opinion.  When Shelbi and Christian were paired with me I was quite excited. Christian talked in class and I knew Shelbi was a hard worker. I knew that we would be a good group. I am happy to have these two in my group for the rest of the semester.

The personalities of the people in your group are a big factor in the work you put into your project. I think if you can get along well with your peers and create a good friendship the project will be a success. If you are kind of standoffish, and don’t talk in your group, then well your group is going to be awkward and unpleasant. In the end it all matters about how you build that relationship with your peers.