Blog 9: 11/04/2017

Teamwork Week 9:

During our Easter break, we had stayed in touch through Whatsapp as we had discussed on when we were going to present the presentation. We had decided to do the presentation on Monday as we wanted to make sure that it was done as soon as possible.

One aspect that we had lagged behind was presentation as most people did not attend the presentation which led to changing the date of the presentation. We could have presented the presentation 3 weeks before Easter but due to team member not attending or not checking their Whatsapp messages, it had caused delays. The assignment is due on Friday back and we need to make sure that we present before the due date.

I had told in the group chat by latest Thursday, if nobody attends then we would record the video without them as we can't keep waiting for team members who are not even interested. this got me really frustrated as every week we would plan to do the presentation and some members of the team would make excuses or just not attend. Some group member would not even read the message and would say that they did not know about it when I would tell him 2 to 3 days before the presentation. This is why I had told them by Thursday latest everyone needs to come in and do the presentation or else we would have no choice to record without them.

During the Easter, I had made sure to practice on my presentation and I was able to remember my part of the presentation by heart. I made sure to do the presentation in front of friends and family so this way when I am recording for the presentation I am confident and able to get my point across.

Overall I would say our group work was good as we were ahead of everyone. We had found a business really quickly and managed to do an interview within that week. We had managed to identify the problems and solutions. The only aspect we had fallen behind on was presenting the presentation. We didn't really have a group leader; if we had a group leader who would be telling us the dates of each activity then I think we would be been more organised. As we did not have a team leader misunderstanding occurred as some group members would think and prepare for the presentation whereas some would not bother coming in.

we had used whatsapp as or main communication platform as the days that we don't come in university everyday and we usually just see each other as a group every Thursday. In order to make sure that we are organised we should have had multiple meetings within the week so this way we would be able to discuss on what days everyone is available to record the presentation.