Challenges for Group Work

Group work is challenging if the group members are not good enough to be committed and active. To be successful, the group should have a leader who should be capable of coordinating and be familiar with the project. It is so important for each group member to follow the rules and reach the agreement. The disciplining should be applied to promote the commitment and punish the laziness. Otherwise, the group work is likely to fall into chaos.

Communication and positive attitudes are key to the effectiveness of group work. The level of ability to carry out some work differs within members. In order to reach some agreement to have the work done, some members have to listen others' advice and digest. It is essential that some people have to compromise in terms of their own perspective and plan. The disaster happens when some members who are not active, lazy, disable, and inexperienced show disrespect to some member who really commit time and effort on the project. The are not willing to listen, to think and accept others' diligent and reasonable work just because they do not want to feel inferior to other members. In this case, the work could either fail without any outcome or produce the bad quality work by the good compromise the bad.