(1,000 words group reflection)

Victoria Mendez

Each presentation given showed great teamwork and did an amazing job showing and explaining their chapter. They all followed up their citations with their opinions and videos to back their information up. Not only did they give information from the book, but they also related it to the real world.

To begin with Group one, they had chapter three. Chapter three was about Intercultural Communication. Group one did a great job in showing the roles of culture in communication. For examples and more information, they used more than one culture. The group also used videos and picture to help the audience better understand the concepts. When you think of cultural communication, you think of only putting information on your state. Not only did they share information on the United states, but of the world as well. Each group member did a fantastic job in explaining their designated area. The group elaborated on very important topics such as gender, sex, and religion. This a very important topic and it is necessary to shine light on to the people who are going to be our future because we are the ones who have the ability to change the world for the better. Usually, it is not spoken often because it causes arguments and can be taboo, but the group made sure to express why they believe it is necessary to speak on. To this day people are still suffering for the color of their skin, who they want to love, and who or what they decide to believe in. Everyone to deserves to be treated equal. The color of your skin and who you love should not be the cause of so much hate. Group one did a great job on their presentation. It gave very important information with videos to support their information. They also did so in a way that was organized.

To continue, Group two presented chapter nine. Chapter nine was about communicating in groups. Group two did a great job explain the different groups like what healthy groups look like and need, the development of groups, and how to manage group conflict. Getting to know your team is a big part in having a healthy and stable group. Making sure that all the group members are up to date and no one is falling behind is a great example of leadership. They explained groups that people can be apart of, for example, social, support, service, work, virtual, music, and family and friend groups. It shined light on groups that you can join, like social groups, and groups that you are already part of, like family. The group did a great job in splitting the presentation, so it is not too much workload on just one person. Each group member expressed their different types of groups with pictures and videos to help support their information. Not only did they describe the different types of groups, but they also described the development in forming the groups such as, performing, planning, and transforming their ideas into real information. The stages play an important role in how groups work together to fulfill their goals effectively. Their group shines light on the ups and down of being in a group. There are always going to be disagreements, but they showed that active communication helps resolve these disagreements. They chose to end with conflicts in groups. There are many reasons there can be conflicts and disagreements in groups, it is up to the group members the communicate and overcome these conflicts together. This presentation opened my eyes to groups and did a very good job on passing their information to me.

Lastly, Group three which was the group that I am apart of, presented chapter 10 which was about leadership and problem solving. Our group presentation was very creative in the sense that we all worked together to include a theme for the background which we chose to be the shoe “The Office”. I believe we worked collectively as a group to show and express all the information while keeping it fun and entertaining. Our videos were not too long and were straight to the point. They related to the topic but showed a different point of view and served as another example. The pictures served as more of an elaboration to the information. The slides were detailed with pictures and videos. We divided the workload and kept in communication to do our very best during the presentation. For this being our first presentation together, I believe we executed it gracefully and as perfect as we could make it. I am very grateful to be in group three and to have the group members that I have. There were some members who stood behind or never spoke up as much as we encouraged them to. Working on this chapter with my group, I learned to make sure everyone gets a turn in the spotlight and their needs and wants are being heard. Overall, I believe we did a great job executing the information along with our opinions and ideas. Our videos, pictures, graphs, and theme were all kept short and straight to the point, and in a lighthearted way.

To conclude, to be in the circumstances that we are, and meeting for the very first time, I strongly believe that all the groups did an excellent job together expressing their topics. The presentations were done smoothly for it being our first try. They were straight to the point and organized. Each group member had a job and most of them did all their work and went beyond. With this being out first presentation, we learned from our mistakes and in the future, we will execute our presentation better in the future.