why do i hate group work? someone try to help me understand myself.?

Question

this is in relation to school work where sometimes we are divided into groups for discussion. when i work alone i get the feeling that am able to do the work faster.

Answer 1

It sounds as if you are a bit like me, an independent thinker.
However, you need this experience now to help you prepare for the real life work environment. Most jobs will require that you be able to work well in or with a team.
It might help IF, you begin to think of your teammates as helpers instead of as hold backs. They will have ideas that you don't have. Everyone has a different approach to a problem. And IF, you are like me, you tend to believe in yourself and feel that others sometimes have dumb ideas. Try this mentality. Sometimes other persons ideas sound dumb but, those ideas sometimes cause another person to come up with an idea that is brilliant. So, actually you need to stop thinking their ideas are dumb because they will lead to some good ideas.

You need to develop a team workers mindset.
Okay, are you ready?
Repeat after me, there are no dumb ideas, there are no dumb ideas, there are no dumb ideas, there are no dumb ideas.

That should help you get moving in the right direction working with a team.

I know that sometimes others can be frustrating but this will give you some valuable work experience that can help you be the best in the team you may end up working with at your first job. AND BELIEVE ME, the people who work best in a team are the first to get promoted.

Is that enough incentive to learn how to work with a team?

Best of luck.....

Answer 2

The group work idea is leftist psychological manipulation. The more able students are being conditioned to accept scholastic parasitism by the less able, which will be repeated, later, in the workplace. Perhaps you've noticed that most of the answers or best ideas come from the same few group members, over and over again, while the other group members benefit from ideas that might not have ever occurred to them otherwise.

The political agenda, just now, is to "equalize" the races by whatever means is necessary. In schools, that agenda takes the form of the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) programme. Teachers are required to show that the slower races are "catching up" with the smarter ones, and the method that they use most of the time, because it makes their own involvement in the cheating less obvious, is group work.

You probably can work better and faster alone. A group, like a fleet, moves no faster than its slowest member. But unlike a fleet, you derive no particular benefit by waiting on the losers who are holding you back, or by letting the parasites in your group copy your answers so that they can get a good score, too.

After you graduate from a school where you worked assignments in groups, you'll be "prepped" to be OK with Affirmative Action, in which you will once again be doing all the work and letting freeloaders in for some of the credit for the job you did.

Answer 3

This is what happened practically every time when I was divided into groups for discussion: no one hardly had anything to say about the subject and I would try to get some sort of input from group members. I found the group discussion thing very frustrating and a waste of time. You ARE able to do the work faster by yourself.

In the other thing where I was put into a group of several of us to do a project (which was different than small group discussion) I didn't like someone else's poor work bringing me down or not even holding up their part of the bargain (people can be flaky and not responsible for their portion of a project but they want to get a good grade from someone else's work).

You are not alone, I can't stand it -- such a waste of time.

Answer 4

Simply put: The less people involved, the faster results are formed. Ironically, we did something like this in our fraternity a few weeks ago, so I'm going to draw back on that and use that experience to explain.

We were put in groups of 6, and we were all told a story, and we had to rank the characters on a scale from least despicable to most despicable. First we had to rank them by ourselves, then we had to find a partner and talk to the partner and rank them, then we ranked them as a table, then finally we ranked them as an entire group.

As expected, the more people involved, the longer it took to come to a consensus, and even though it wasn't mutual. This being because everyone has different points of views and ideas, and the more people that are brought in the mix, the more ideas there are to hear.

Think about it this way to. When (if) you go to a movie by yourself, you look at the movies, choose what you want, and you're done. No debating, no nothing. When you go with friends, you all have to decide what to watch. Friend A might not like the movie that Friend B wants to watch, etc. etc. So you spend time deciding what movie to watch.

That's the basic concept on why you work faster by yourself than you do in a group.

Answer 5

There is nothing wrong with you, its actually completely normal. Just some people like to work alone while others like to work in a group setting. Also might I suggest thinking of this when choosing a future career. Good Luck!!

Answer 6

That's probably because you are able to work faster alone. Working in teams requires teamwork, which can be a long process. By yourself, you can make all critical decisions in seconds, in a group they must be discussed and consensus must be found.

Answer 7

i agree. working alone is faster. i hate group work and probably always will. with all the other stuff i have to do, i don't have time to meet and work with other people. its great for the slackers but its not so great for people who can get stuff done on their own.

Answer 8

I feel the same way. It's not because I don't enjoy the company of other people. It is the fact that I would rather have more control over the outcome of the assignment, and ultimately my grade.

Answer 9

I just realized you are a hater