In the lecture today we talked about teamwork and collaboration in teams within not only in our class work but also in our careers. We must start building our reputation now and I feel I’m so far doing a good job out of it. We also talked about how not to work within a group.
So with building a reputation, you have to start now in these groups as “the people we work now are probably going to be people we will work with for our careers”. I feel excited to start working in these groups and build a good reputation between my peers so I am successful later on in my career. I want to be a part of film/tv series making and working collaboratively is the main driving force behind the creation of film. I feel like I’m already working on my career as I start now, which is exciting in a way because I feel like I’m working towards my career now rather than when I graduate if that makes sense. Having my friends around me who I work and collaborate with now at such a grass roots stage and knowing that most of them if not all of them will be there when I start working in my career is kind of reassuring; in the sense that I will know and work with these people for the rest of my life.
When we were talking about bad experiences in group projects it triggered bad emotions regarding this topic. It reminded me of the group work in engineering where in one project, there was no communication within the group until about a week before it was due, in which case I had to do most of the work so at least we had something to hand in. Another project, one group member did not communicate at all to the project but claimed at the end to have done as much as the rest of us and it was a fine example of how not to function in a group.
Anyway, I hope my future group projects do not have the same issues as before and I endeavour to keep the relationships I build in this course to build a good reputation and good friends.
