This last week was whole a very stressful experience. I had an unexpected group work, which I only had one week to get ready and it should be a very creative oral presentation for the whole class. The preassure of the few time to prepare everything was added to the fact that each member of the group had a different work style and different ideas that were not compatible. This lead to imbalances inside the group in which some members did everything and others did nothing, arguings and almost sleepless nights to finish everything in time. I think we could have done a much better work if there was more cooperation and open mindedness about one another's ideas and this thought left me very frustrated. Lesson learnt, we must choose our job partners (and in every other field of life) wisely and try to face the frustration that comes along with mistakes with acceptance that we can not control everything that goes wrong.
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Good morning @CarinaLopes, thank you for sharing your stressful moment with us!
Yes, cooperation is a real challenge and could become more and more i we are all staying too much individualist. Choosing our job partners is a priviledge, I wish you can succeed in this, however, even choosing carefully and working with the most awesome people can also lead to failure or crisis, I think the most important and the real challenge is to keep in mind is how everyone in the group can really make her talent valuable for the success of the common vision or project. But just this alignement is a prodigious performance. So you can I guess already consider having been cooperating even leading to such result, it is already a big success, as it will enable you to select more carefully in the future ;-) As you say, lesson learnt, and the second part about resilience and lexibility is maybe the most important factor of succees. ;-)
Hope you are better and feel better prepared now and you'll enjoy future cooperation!