My Bad Expierence With Poor Group Behavior

I have had my share of productive group work within a work setting and with peers at school. Unfortunately, I have been in a situation where I experienced poor group behaviors. When poor group behaviors occur it affects the entire group, and the actions of others do take a toll on how the remainder of the time spent in that group plays out.

In my first year of post-secondary one of the professors allowed us to choose our own group to develop a PowerPoint presentation. I was excited for the group work as it is very interactive and I also had classmates that I wanted to work with, big mistake! I chose to work with females I became "friends" with and were comfortable with. All three of us worked in a group, where we developed a group contract. At first everything went well, we agreed on a topic, we designated specific tasks and worked on the PowerPoint as a functioning group. The great work ethic changed drastically, the group fell a part when people were unable to make time for meetings, and fell behind in merging our researched work. Attitudes begun to change, excuses became more frequent and everyone was not co-operative, at this point I became frustrated with my team members. I realized that I no longer had interest in the group and was very distant. We did manage to get the work completed, but it was hard because ideas of others were ignored. Surprisingly,we received an A on our assignment

. This group situation has made me very cautious in group work after being in a situation where it became hard to function together. ideas of others were ignored.

Moral to the story do not think that working with people you know or are friends with will always generate a positive/ functioning team. Negative behaviors change the behaviors and dynamics of the entire group.