Group Work Ideas!

For the third and last project of this semester, I would like to really focus on supporting some types of nonprofit organizations in Chicago. There are several in the city and as it has been mentioned before, no one really thinks about the importance that these organizations bring into our society. For instance, I work at Carson Pirie Scott and they do an event twice every year to help these nonprofit organizations that help abandoned children and also those that are against the abuse of women. Twice every year, Carsons hosts an even called Community Day. In fact, this weekend the store was packed with customers supporting the event. The event involved of selling a booklet with coupons for customers to do their shopping and the money they gave towards the booklets where donations for nonprofit organizations. However, even though the store does this even, they do not really stress the importance to the customers of helping someone. That is why these booklet sales do not always go that great. Prior to this weekend the store sold only about $2500 dollars worth of booklets, but this sale has been going on for about two months and it could have been a lot more money if the store did more advertisement explaining the importance to help these organizations trying to help women and children. Even though during the event the sales of the booklets grew, it would have been a lot better if prior to the event the sales where much more.  I think one way that would be really helpful that Carsons didn't do is send out fliers, brochures, posters, anything that catches the publics attention in order to stress the importance of helping out an organization in need. When it comes to the roles, as explained before, I'm more of a supporter and facilitator rather than a leader because I really wouldn't like to make any mistakes when doing this project.

Role in groups

Throughout my years in school, and now that I have started working, there have been moments where I have to be involved in some sort of group project and I have to admit sometimes it can be a little hard working with other people rather than working on your own and doing your own work and not depending on other's to do get the work that's supposed to be done on time. There are actually times when the whole process has gone really well and the outcome turns out to be really good. However, there are other times that the process can be really painful and the outcome doesn't turn to be as good. I think the biggest factors in the success of a group is that everyone works really hard together to achieve their goal. It's very important that no one slacks off and forgets to do their part because this is when things will start going wrong in the assignment. It is very important to always stay on task. The key factors of a group that is guaranteed failure is of course a group that does the exact opposite of what a group should be doing in order to achieve their goal. The success is actually connected to the roles that people take because if someone is given a role that person is not used to or not exactly sure how to deal with it, the outcome might not turn out to be too good, but if everyone assumes the role that fits them the best, the outcome should be successful. I think I would have to say I'm torn between being a supporter and a facilitator because sometimes I tend to do both of them. I tend to take this role because I certainly do not feel like a leader and I am not a problematizer either that's for sure. This role has led me more times to success than to failure because I do the work I'm supposed to do and I do it right and since I know that's where I'm good at, those are the roles I always assume. This role has only caused problems when no one assumes the role of a leader, because then there's no one to follow. There has been the rare occasion when I have to assume the role of a leader but I do not like it because I know I'm not good at it, and no not really I've always liked the roles I always take. My biggest concerns in a group project is that it doesn't get done the way it's supposed to get done just because some people may not assume the roles they should.