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Working with a Group
Group Agreement: Getting Off to a Good Start
With your group, please talk through questions #1 – 9 and make notes on your
agreements.
1. Working Styles and Priorities
a. How do you work? Are you generally someone that procrastinates/works
well under pressure? Are you someone that plans ahead and likes to get
things done in advance?
What agreements will you make about working with your different
preferences?
b. What’s your goal for this project? Do you feel the need to get an A, or are
you comfortable getting a B? What does that mean for your teammates?
How will you work that out as a group?
c. What is the best way to reach you? Email? Phone? Text? What are bad
times to reach you—when are you not available?
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2. Decide how you’ll handle your meetings (protocol).
a. What is the structure of your meetings? Do you want to make time to
check-in or socialize at the beginning? Is it strictly about business? Who
will lead or facilitate your meetings? Do you want to have someone in
charge of making notes on action steps (who does what)?
3. Tardies and Absences
a. How are you going to handle tardies? (Who gets contacted if you’re
running late? Will you start on time even if someone is late?)
b. How will you handle absences? Who gets contacted if someone has to
miss a meeting?
4. Schedule Limitations
a. What are the best times to meet? What are the worst times to meet? What
other obligations do people have that would prevent them from meeting?
b. Where are the best places to meet?
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5. Your Group’s Strengths and Challenges
a. What are some individual strengths of people in your team? (Is someone a
really strong editor? Does someone have extensive knowledge of
PowerPoint?)
b. What are some individual challenges--things that people aren’t necessarily
good at? How will you work with these?
c. Are there skills that one of you wants to develop? Skills that you think you
could help someone else build?
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6. Project Division of Labor
a. How are you going to divide up the work for this project?
b. Who is going to put the final project together? How will you make it sound
like one voice?
c. Do you have someone who can proofread your work?
7. What kinds of challenges or problems do you think might come up? How
will you deal with these?
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8. Celebrate and Appreciate
a. If you can, it’s a good idea to plan a way to celebrate the work you did
together, at the end of the project. Appreciate the fact that you all
experienced a great deal to be here and be positive.
What are some ways for your group to celebrate? What would people
enjoy? What’s practical?
9. Is there anything else that you need to make this a successful group
work experience?
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Working with a Group: Evaluating Your Completed Project
Title of Your Paper/Name of Your Project:
People in Your Group:
1. What went well in your group?
2. Describe any frustrations you encountered. How did you overcome these?
3. If you had this assignment to do over again, what would you do differently?
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4. (To be completed at the end of the project) Answer the following about yourself
and each group member.
Your Name__________________________________________________________
Did you contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project?
Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did you do? ______________________________
Please describe in detail what you did to contribute to the project.
Group Member’s Name
Did this member contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project? Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did this group member do?_____________________
Please describe in detail what your group member did to contribute to the project.
Group Member’s Name
Did this member contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project? Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did this group member do?_____________________
Please describe in detail what your group member did to contribute to the project.
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Group Member’s Name
Did this member contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project? Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did this group member do?_____________________
Please describe in detail what your group member did to contribute to the project.
Group Member’s Name
Did this member contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project? Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did this group member do?_____________________
Please describe in detail what your group member did to contribute to the project.
Group Member’s Name
Did this member contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project? Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did this group member do?_____________________
Please describe in detail what your group member did to contribute to the project.
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Group Member’s Name
Did this member contribute fairly, fully, and equally to the group project? Yes
No
What percentage of the total work did this group member do?_____________________
Please describe in detail what your group member did to contribute to the project.
5. What grade do you think your group deserves on this assignment? Explain and
justify your response.
6. Do you have any other comments or any suggestions about this assignment?
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