Effective group work hinges on mutual commitment and shared objectives. These groups foster social skills that are crucial for professional environments and build trust among members, enhancing efforts to achieve goals.
Having a good team allows us to achieve high performance in any project. By leaning on other people, we can do each task faster, go further, and have more impact.
Characteristics
Set common goals and objectives
Establishes bonds of trust between its members.
Encourage mutual commitment.
Enhances the effort to achieve the established objectives.
Develops social skills useful in the professional environment for which they are training.
A working group is called a team that is formed with the objective of carrying out a common task.
Sharing Group Results
Having to show the other groups what they did can increase their motivation to produce higher level work.
Designating Roles in Groups
Each member of the group plays a specific role that supports the team’s collaborative effort. These roles include:
• Leader.
• Encourager.
• Prober.
• Recorder.
Group organization
• Duration
Longterm groups work more substantively and less superficially.
• Selection
You should either assign students randomly to groups or select students so that each group.