Personal Reflection On Teamwork

Teamwork is a vital skill to have in today’s society because it improves efficiency and productivity among the members of the team. In a sociology lab that has occurred earlier this week, there were five groups of participants that worked together as a single unit towards one goal, which was to complete a test that covered a broad amount of topics ranging from geography to chemistry. While the group I was assigned to was working together towards this goal, I have realized that our group as a culture has developed drastically from when we initially began to work together where we subtly began to assign roles to one another such as the leader, comic, cheerleader, and the nodder. By the time that the test that required the communication and teamwork has finished, our group has diminished from thinking as one singular unit to five individuals. Now, that the lab has finished and

I believe that the normative culture was developed within our own group during this lab was because everyone in our group had a shared idea, which was to finish the test in a timely and efficient matter. Everyone in our group took roles from the beginning but some members of the group like myself changed roles over time because initially, I believed that I was the page flipper since I was trying to see what were the questions. Then, I switched roles to the cheerleader since I was trying to encourage my teammates to do good and finally, I stepped up and became the co-leader alongside another teammate in my group. The leadership type that occupied our group was democratic as we allowed everyone in group to participate in the discussions and we tried to make an overall consensus as a group before making a