What Are The Disadvantages Of Working In Small Groups

INTRODUCTION
In today’s work culture and dynamic environment educational institutions and organizations require students and employees to work together in groups at certain tolerant and coordinative levels, thus proving “experience of working in group or teams”. The students are asked to work in groups as it allows students to learn interactively. Moreover the researchers report that, regardless of the subject matter; students working in small groups tend to learn more of what is taught and retain it longer than when the same content is presented in other instructional formats. There are number of possible reasons why students are asked to work in small groups. Some of them are as follows:
• Generating a broad array of possible alternative

Our goal was to produce as many ideas as possible. We listened to all the ideas carefully and then we mentioned all the ideas sheet so we don’t forget them or they don’t get lost.
By using this approach we improved our group work a lot and did some creative modifications as well.
2. Focusing on Direction
After we gathered a large numbers of ideas we categorize and examine them. Then we choose some ideas among all of us. Then we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of them. We also ask group members to vote for ideas that helped us to eliminate some of them. Moreover based on this voting we rank the ideas in priority order and then finalized them.
3. Making a Decision
After everyone’s views are heard and all the points of agreement and disagreement are identified, the group tried to arrive at an agreement that makes sense to everyone. Decisions are an important for group. So we were quiet careful in deciding. Our group made all the decisions based on all member’s input.

Using Gibbs Model I would like to take the opportunity to talk about an incident that happened over the course of making this presentation.
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Analysis
What happened I feel should not have happened at all. That was the least I was expecting out of this presentation. Coming to a whole new country and then getting into a tussle. I think the situation was made worse due to me not taking a stand against him.

5. Conclusion
In retrospect, I would do several things differently. I should have tried speaking with ‘X’ and voiced my opinion and should have taken a stand for myself. The main thing that I have learned from this incident is that no matter what when someone tries to disgrace you got to take a stand.

6. Action Plan
In Future, I will make sure that I always take a stand not only for me but also for someone else too so that he/she doesn’t question their ability to take a stand and will never let any such things happen at least around me

Problems
Here are some problems which we encountered during our group project:
1. Floundering:
While we were figuring out the work and were trying to decide everyone’s role in the group, the group work got a bit delayed and some work got postponed.
2. Dominating or Reluctant Participants:
Some of the group members were taking more share of the discussion by talking too often by telling lengthy stories and by not letting others finish. While others were speaking rarely as they were having difficulty to get in the