Communication within your groups is a critical skill that needs to be mastered. My experience collaborating and receiving feedback from my learning team proved to be helpful. During the process of coming up with our presentations we were able to bounce ideas off of each other to perfect our ideas. The outcome from this was a better more rounded idea and presentation. The feedback I received also helped a lot through the class. I was made aware of flaws I had when I was presenting which enabled me to focus on them and fix them. Without the feedback from my group I may not have ever noticed these flaws.
Continuing with how working with others can highly improve your presentation, at the same time it can also take a turn for the worse. Working with others you’re able to share ideas and collaborate to try and come up with the best idea. Sometimes this is a great thing as long as everyone agrees and works together. Where this can take a turn for the worse is when ideas conflict. If people do not agree on an idea and cannot compromise the groups moral can go downhill quick. When this happens things won’t get done the way they should. The presentation can easily fall apart. Another way it can be bad is if someone comes up with an idea and decides to change the group’s idea mid-way thru the project. If the group decides to go with that idea to make the member happy in can lead to failure. The idea may not be as well thought out and planed as the original. This can lead to a poor presentation where you do not get your message across to the audience. When this happens the entire goal of presenting your idea to your audience so that they take away what you want them to fails.
I will be able to take the information I learned from this experience with working in groups to improve my presentations in the future. I learned that working in groups can really help you come up with the best ideas. I never really liked working in groups. I always felt that everyone couldn’t see the ideas I truly wanted to express in my presentations there for I use to never work well in groups if I wasn’t in charge. From this class I learned that I can trust the opinions of others. There was plenty of examples to where my group members actually helped me out a lot. When I was struggling with an idea they were always there to help me get it down on paper. When I listened and used the help from my team I saw my idea come together the way I wanted it to. In the future I plan to continue to listen to my team and let everyone’s ideas flow. Mine may not always be the best and that’s ok. As long as I keep an open mind and allow others to input ideas we will be able to produce an amazing end product.
In conclusion I learned a lot from this experience. I can trust the opinions of others to come up with the best ideas for the presentation. I also learned that sometimes you need to step up and explain to fellow group members when you see a problem with their idea. It’s not always best to just sit back and let someone take control of the entire idea when you can foresee the idea not working well. I will take that with me thru out the rest of my academic career and professional career.