Hi Everyone,
For this weeks blog I have decided to discuss the topic on how my team is working. So far think we are working together really well and we are getting on top of our group report.
I think that I overestimated how hard working in a distance team would be. I thought my team and I would find it rather hard to contact each other, not get along well, be 'all business and no play' and potentially find it hard to work with each other. How wrong was I?
I really enjoy working in my team. We all are happy to help each other with anything that anyone needs help with. Although we have various road blocks and have had a couple of set backs, we always pull through and manage to produce top notch work. There have been no real frustrations when working with this team. When there is a minor disagreement, things are never blown out of proportion. We constructively discuss it as a team and then come to a conclusion that suits everyone. I think that is a really key trait in our group as it allows us to make decisions quickly and efficiently. We have taken moments like these in our stride and have still continued to power through our work.
I think that working in this team has allowed me to explore not just different areas of the assignments but different areas of science in general. We often share articles that we have found interesting with the group through our Facebook chat and I have even found a common interest of a cartoon with some of my group members! We have found that as the semester has progressed, that we have become more efficient. I do feel as though at this point in time, that I am letting everyone down because study has not been my main focus with work getting really busy and having a lot of sick animals to look after. However, we have taken things like this in our stride, and whenever someone is really busy, everyone else does their best to help out.
I hope that when the semester is over and we have completed this paper, that I still keep in contact with my group because they are people who I can see myself conversing with about a lot of things in the future (like the latest 'Rick and Morty' episodes). We have had many successes so far and I hope that we have very few to no failures.
I'm going to finish this blog with a quote from Dave Kerpen. "The difference between success and failure is a great team."
