Group Work

Working in groups or teams can produce higher standards of work, or be complete disasters.

A group will consist of people of varying skill and abilities. It is important to distribute these abilities effectively, so as to make the task the group has to accomplish be completed in the best possible way. It is important for everyone in the team to know what they are doing, and for members to know what the rest of the team is doing.

It is also important for members of a group to not let others forget what their group has to achieve. If one member loses sight of the group objective then the rest of the group's work will be effected when the slacking person's work is needed.

What is also needed from members in a group is to do their share that everyone else is expecting them to. An effective way of keeping track of this is using meeting minutes to summarise and log meetings between the members of the group, who was there (and who wasn't and why), what was discussed and who went away with what task.

As long as the members of a group have been (sensibly) delegated their task(s) to do, and they know how that fits in with the overall group objective, work will be efficient and well-done, adding up to an impressive completion of the objective.