Perceptions and decision making

I have never really liked to do group work on school projects. It almost always ends up being a last minute effort to whip something together. usually nobody steps up to lead the group. when i heard that in Organizations we have a major group project i perceived a bunch of people in my group not wanting to be there. once our groups were formed I realized that this project was one that was defiantly not going to be whipped together. It seems that everyone in my group has at least one point in their life where they have had to pull a group together and lead. my perceptions greatly changed on that first day when we delegated tasks throughout the group. I think our group is special in that we all know what needs to be done and that we can count on one another to all meet at the end goal. decision making in our group has been very easy because my fellow group members are all very willing to dedicate their time and pitch in.

I'm hopeful that the children we are helping at the HALO organization will learn from our group the importance of teamwork and perceiving one another as equals.