Importance of Group Assignments in Developing Team Spirit and Leadership Skills

NAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE COLLEGE
REFLECTIVE WRITING
GROUP ASSIGNMENTS

Group assignments are not just assessments given to the student for understanding the
content of the course but also a way to learn the importance of team spirit and leadership skills. It
enhances a person’s ability to understand the motive of having one goal and several ways to it.
We, as a group were given to create a report on organisational behaviour with the team
and present it as a team assignment to the teacher. This assignment has not just made us learn
about the various skills needed in a person to complete groups tasks but also helped us in
understanding our peers in a much better way.
I was worried of the fact, that, if my teammates would end up having conflicts on the
ideas while completing the group task, but the situation turned out to be different. Small conflicts
are a part of each group assessment because of the clash in ideas of the people involved in it.
Still, the conflicts never end up ruining the task if the intensity of achieving the goal is same
among all the team members. Hence, along with the various behavioural qualities, we also learnt
about the ethical mediums of completing a group task.
A group work is a result to the individual behaviour of the members participating in the
team. Understanding the personality of the members is a very important trait to make an effective
job performance. The main aspects of understanding the personality of the team members lies in
their attitude, ability to learn from others, perception of the various activities and the people and
values that provide the basic foundation for the creation of other aspects. While working on the
assignment, the team members are required to distribute the tasks amongst themselves and
discuss various points while doing it. The correct distribution of actions in the task relies much
on the individual behaviour of each member. Not just this, to create a symphony in the ideas,
individual personality plays an important role.
While completing the group task, it was very important for us to divide the tasks amongst
each other and then decide the outcomes based on the discussions with our team to excel the
efficiency of the group and understand the need of patience and trust for conducting a the project
to make it a single lined success.
The group formation was based on 2 important theories-
Homan’s theory describes that the more activities people share, the more interactions
they do, the stronger will be their group dynamics. It worked true in the case of our group work,
as we spend a lot of time discussing about the ideas and progress on the work conducted by each
member. Not only on the work level, but we also spent time in informal meetings with the group
members to understand the personality of each individual. This activity helped us in choosing the
tasks for particular person according to their capabilities and ideas.
Balance theory describes the importance of attraction to other members of the group on
the basis of similar attitudes towards the common goal and objective creates a comprehensive
approach towards the task. It worked well with our group as the members with similar set of