Group_Analysis

Group Analysis Introduction Although this is my first semester towards my Masters degree in Management, I believe that the group I was assigned for this course was wonderful. At the beginning of the semester, I must admit that I was very anxious to see how an online course would affect my learning ability. I also was curious how projects would get done as a group in an online environment. My goal is, of course, to do well in all my classes. However, I didn’t want to be assigned to a group that would prevent me from achieving my goal. Once our first group assignment approached, I was eager to meet the rest of my group members and get started. Appropriately, the first assignment was an “Ice-Breaker” assignment. This assignment really helped us to get through the forming stage of our group development. It was at that time I knew that each member of our group: Alan, Carole, Donna, Greg, and myself were all committed to doing well as a group in this course. Many times throughout our chat sessions, we used the words group and team to describe us as a whole. Although we selected to act group, team, assignment, stage, because, one, assignments, each, myself, felt, everyone, chat, together, really, online, member, case, very, two, think, success, stated, input, however, goal, forming, first, environment, didn’t, development, course, communication, although, as, whole