Everyone has their own way of handling things, thus there will be times when ideas clash. Whether a group makes or breaks depends on how the members handle the differences among themselves. Fortunately for my group, we do not have much problem in this area. The differences serve to enhance the scope of our project instead. Effective communication comes into play during moments of misunderstanding, not only from the speaker, but also from the listeners. Ineffective communication of ideas lead to time wastage from explanation on one’s part and the redoing of a particular portion of the project.
For the whole thing to work, it is more of give-and-take, rather than equal distribution of workload. As a team player, we should understand each member’s difficulty and do our part to relieve the worries of the other members. For example, one can offer to do more of a certain part of the project if the others were busy at that period instead of insisting equal division of the project. This not only improves the relationship among the members, but also ensures that that portion of the project is handled as best it could be.
The primary portion of the research (for our case, it was the surveying of NUS undergraduates) has to be performed with care. My group attempted to obtain our findings through surveying NUS undergraduates. From the feedback from our friends who were not involved in the project, we realised there were ambiguities in the surveys. The ideas we tried to convey were apparently lost through the process of scripting the questionnaire. This caused some uncertainty when we tried to interpret and analyse the results. We were vacillating between the alternatives that arose due to the language issue present in the survey and the original notion we had behind the survey questions.
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I certainly agree that as a team player, we should understand each others difficulty and do our part to relieve the worries of the other member. This was certainly an important consideration for our group as well when we distributed the workload. We also tried to bring other factors into consideration such as relying on the strengths of each memeber to cover for the shortcomings of each other to promote the overall efficiency of our group. However, as you have mentioned, I also agree that effective communications is extremely essential for such a system to function smoothly else it could lead to misunderstanding which would then create a bigger communications barrier.
Effective communication is important not only amongst your group-mates but with your audience as well. In your case, would be trying to get the students you surveyed to understand your idea. I have to admit that this can be quite difficult because what you may interpret as may not be the case for someone else. Perhaps if given more time, you could have gave a few sample surveys to your friends and ask whether they have any doubts about it.
i agree with en lin, this is how wonderful communication is, isn't it?
It is interesting how perception can get really wild at times. Certainly, to let the others know what you are thinking about is important but difficult. my team has this prob too, but as soon as we cleared the air, things went on very smoothly after that
Hi Sheen Yee, thank you for your post. I'm glad that communication was not a problem for your group.
I would have liked your second point to be more personal, that is, explain what actually happened in your group as far as a give-and-take approach is concerned. Also, I thought you ended the post quite abruptly with the last sentence. I sort of expected an answer to that sentence which would tell me what happened in the end.
Nevertheless, I would like to say that I really appreciate the hard work that your group members put in for the project.
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