Team Assessment

Team Assessment Blog assignment.

Name: Raina Melendez
Team Members: Chris, Aaron, Nick, Angelia, Nicole

Two greatest strengths:

I will start by saying that it is very obvious that we are not the greatest team. We all have our faults and could do well if we actually weren't too lazy to try anything half of the time.

Chris has charisma. Nick is the pretty face and the presenter. Angelia and Nicole don't really fit in much and resign to do things on their own and Aaron is the amazing tech guy who throws the powerpoints together. I am very determined when it comes to the group projects.
Obviously we each have a bit that we could bring to the table. When it comes to the actual implication of our strengths is where we falter.

Two Areas that need improvement:

Communication and politics.
We don't have a leader. And, if we communicated we'd all probably realize that the best one for the job is Chris. I am lazy and even though I am willing to do the work, my natural submissive personality dictates that I need to have someone in command tell me what to do. Aaron, lacking self esteem and bursting about the seams with cynicism is absolutely perfectly suited for his job as tech man. Angelia and Nicole would do well to provide him with links and materials, Chris would be best at delegating to us and Nick is naturally the most obvious choice for presentation.

My insights:

People, especially college students, in my experience have never done very well in group work. Human beings are selfish, lazy and terrible creatures that need guidance at virtually all hours. We possess the qualities necessary to work in teams but without a very positive leader and intelligible communication we will fail.

In times of stress and pressure we will put together a half ass and haphazard project in hopes of getting a decent grade. That's how schooling always is.

And that's really all I have to say on the matters of forced socialization and graded unified effort.