Also discuss concepts from your textbook that relate to your experience working in a group or on a team. If you’ve had more than one such experience, pick the one that is most memorable to you.

Most every student has had to work on a team either on a group project in a college course or on a team in a work setting. For your MP for Week 9 reflect on a team or group work experience or on a group project in a college course that you have had. Focus on both performance issues and your attitude about the work experience in a team or group.

Also discuss concepts from your textbook that relate to your experience working in a group or on a team. If you’ve had more than one such experience, pick the one that is most memorable to you.
One theme that might be relevant to discuss involves personality clashes when working in groups. Here is a “true” anecdote from a colleague of mine. The instructor was teaching an education course in a class with several “strong willed”, highly involved graduate students.

Two such students wound up being in the same group working on a group project. One of the earliest activities of the group was to select a group leader. One of the “strongly willed” graduate students realizing there might be a conflict regarding this issue decided to nominate the other “strong willed” student to be the leader of the group – a seemingly good idea to avoid a potential conflict between the two of them regarding who would be leading the group. However, the response by the nominated leader was something close to the following: “Who gave you the authority to decide who should be the leader of our group?”