During this weeks lectorial Rachel Wilson talked to us about collaboration.
– Cold Sweat –
The thing about group projects is that although they have so much potential to be amazing they often end in blood sweat and tears. Theres an old phrase that states: “If you want something done right – do it yourself”, sadly there is an element of reality to this that is unavoidable – which is: If you don’t care about your well being; nobody else will. If we think back to the days of high school many of us will remember the dread that was group projects, one or two people would do all the work while the people who were less interested in passing the subject would happily allow it to happen.
The problem with these scenarios was that there were members of the group that did not feel motivated or interested int he project; fair enough, it was high school and we all at some point had to do things that we didnt have an interest in.
Hopefully now, in the world of university where everyone has chosen to be here its going to be different.
The pinnacle of productivity in group work comes from motivation and desire to succeed, this is why companies that are formed with teams of interested people are usually successful, because the members of the group have an actual interest to complete the task at hand.
So hopefully, from now on all group projects are only comprised of people that care.
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