M2 - Comparing teams

M2

The team I will be using as an example for this task is the school business group and my current media group. In my media group, there are four people including myself, George, Matt and Nat. We started our group work over a week ago and our progress has been successful so far. Our aim is to film a short scene following the description of shots on the brief.

The leader in this group would narrow down to Matt, since his idea for the short scene was the most effective one. We all assigned ourselves to different roles in the group so we could perform quickly and effectively. This meant having to do extra work in spare time to get things done. There were many ideas facing the short scene, and there was a brief conflict between two of the members over which idea gets chosen forward. The outcome of this was Matt being the leader, and it wasn’t forced upon him, he naturally just fell into the role.

Comparing this to the business group, the media group was a lot smaller, therefore making objectives a lot clearer on what we had to do. We also had a lot more time to get to a successful outcome, whereas the business group was rushed quite a lot. Additionally, our media group knows the strengths and weaknesses of all the characters in the group, therefore making it easier to assign tasks/roles, however we didn’t have that in the business group since we didn’t really know each other. 

To get to a successful outcome overall, I believe that the group has to have a good relationship with each other, otherwise there will be conflicts all the time and no objectives will be met. The problem we faced during the media group was the choosing of the scene ideas, since one person was really passionate about one idea, and another passionate about a different idea. That made everything a bit harder to choose in the group what our objectives were, also made everything more awkward. However, we decided to act upon these conflicts since time was running out.

In our business group, we had to quickly notice each member’s strengths and flaws, and share any idea, which was worthy of standards with the group. This made everything less complicated and away from conflicts/confrontations. Humour was a very important part during our media group, and was something the other group lacked. This improved our objectives and made it a lot easier to get things done, and our group was having a good time doing it. Although our business group didn’t appeal to the idea of humour, this was because we were under a lot of pressure and our only goal at the time was to actually achieve a successful idea.

Overall, each team had the strengths and flaws. However, personally I think my media team worked better together since we all knew each other and felt comfortable sharing any sort of ideas with the rest of the group. Although, the business group did get objectives done a lot faster without any hesitance.