Group Analysis
Introduction
Although this is my first semester towards my Masters degree in Management, I believe that the group I was assigned for this course was wonderful. At the beginning of the semester, I must admit that I was very anxious to see how an online course would affect my learning ability. I also was curious how projects would get done as a group in an online environment. My goal is, of course, to do well in all my classes. However, I didn?t want to be assigned to a group that would prevent me from achieving my goal.
Once our first group assignment approached, I was eager to meet the rest of my group members and get started. Appropriately, the first assignment was an ?Ice-Breaker? assignment. This assignment really helped us to get through the forming stage of our group development. It was at that time I knew that each member of our group: Alan, Carole, Donna, Greg, and myself were all committed to doing well as a group in this course.
Many times throughout our chat sessions, we used the words group and team to describe us as a whole. Although we selected to act
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