Movie Blog - Group Experience

Working with a group is never easy and always has some conflict. Now don’t take it in a bad way the conflicts are not always bad they just simply are inevitable when people are working together. The most common conflict I believe is schedule conflicting, people usually have set schedules and routines set and a group project can alter that. Sometimes simply finding a time to meet as a group is difficult. 

Luckily with technology, such as Google Docs, working as a team has become a bit easier. Although communication trouble is always there like figuring out who will take the lead and stepping in to make sure necessary work is done. To avoid conflict communication should be present, if conflict does arise then there needs to be communication in order to solve the problems. Negotiations may need to be done to be able to accommodate everyone’s needs. Negotiations may be for two group members to meet and discuss the project, and one of them could inform the member who was unable to meet. Or they could agree to meet at an earlier or later time that would accommodate all group members. 

For my specific group the biggest conflict was when to meet and who was doing what parts of the project. To solve this conflict we simply divided the work equally among group members. We decided on two conflict situations from the film each. From there it depended on the person on how many slides they wished to prepare, the minimum requirement was a slide per topic. To make sure that each team member had in fact watched the movie a short discussion on which issues we all saw in the film and which we would like to address. If you had not watched the film you would not have known what conflicts were present in the film.

 The final conflict situation that could arise was on presentation day, are all team members present, are they willing to present? Fortunately in my group we were all present and we decided that one person will be managing the power point slides while the other two presented. This certain group project was actually one of the better group projects that I’ve had to work with, making everything run smoothly.