Evaluation

Group Evaluation

I am three quarters into my experience at Seattle Pacific University and I have met some incredible and inspiring people. Summer quarter was my first group experience and although I genuinely enjoyed the company of my group it was very difficult for the four of us to come to an agreement. The course was only 8 weeks long but the added stress of individual assignments on top of the group assignments and simulations, made it seem like 80 weeks. After that course I dreaded group work.

On day one of Managerial Marketing my stomach dropped when I heard we would be working in groups on a simulation. Not again, I thought. During our first restroom break I started conversing with my fellow classmates to get to know them more. After the break Cory came up to me and asked if I would be his partner. I had seen Cory before in previous classes but didn’t know much about his work ethic. We decided we would keep our group to just Cory and I due to the comments by the professor regarding the decisions with the simulations might be tough with more than two people. Later in class Kerry and Josh came to us and asked to be in our group. We had been sitting next to them and Cory and I really liked them. Our group was now four people and it made me weary it might turn out like my last group experience.

Much to my surprise each member of my group was not only hard working but we listened to each others inputs and agreed on every decision made in our group assignments and simulation inputs. Every week we would meet outside of class and sit down with each other to discuss the week’s assignment and how we all thought we should approach it. After the assignment was done we would take what we learned from the assignment and the week’s readings and incorporate it into our inputs for the simulation.

Cory is in the banking industry and enjoyed keeping track of numbers, he created an excel document and we tracked our inputs and the effects of those decisions in...