<p>I’m currently a junior in college and am having some issues with group work. Anyone have any horror stories to me make feel better? LOL.</p>
<p>One of my classmates stood up in class and said that she had fired her team. :)</p>
<p>What kind of issues are you having? Maybe we can give you a few cents worth of advice on how to deal with uncooperative teams. </p>
<p>The only problem is that the presentation on ADD is Wednesday and everything we have is what I’ve done. That’s fine but it’s a GROUP project.</p>
<p>Do your part. Don’t worry about the others.</p>
<p>I know there have been threads on this topic before. Do a search on here and the Parent’s Forum. (I’d do it, but I’m on my way out of the house right now)</p>
<p>Maybe you could use your teammates as examples of ADD. Kind of a living demonstration.</p>
<p>Wonderful suggestion, EPTR! 
Something along the line that ADD is a medical condition that should not be confused with general laziness as displayed by these teammates’ behavior. ;)</p>
<p>Team projects in college suck. Big time. They’re not a reflection of what teamwork really is in the real world. This is an artificially created team with no reporting structure, no leadership, and no venues for dispute resolution. I recommend keeping doing what you have been doing; this way you will gain the knowledge that your lazy teammates will not. </p>
<p>I mean, the presentation is like 75-90% done, but I have super high standards so I’m probably going overboard. Still, we get graded on our presentation and I like practicing mine.</p>
<p>Group projects still sometimes haunt you in professional life too. Group projects still need a facilitator or a leader - ok to give everyone a push and to be the positive advocate for your group. If they still aren’t motivated, then know that you have done your work, put your name on it and own that part of the project. </p>
<p>DS had a group project last year and ended up doing the whole thing himself…There are always going to be slackers even in the real world. Just make sure and do your part. If they don’t help they aren’t going to do very well on the presentation but you will.</p>
<p>Well it’s due Wednesday and just today they decided what their contributions would be. My consolation prize for doing all of the work is reading one less slide than them -_-</p>
<p>I don’t know if I would allow that. If you read less slides it could look like they did more work than you. You should read the slides you do and they should read the ones they do. </p>
<p>Do not compromise your work. Or put your name on each of your slides, like signing a painting in the bottom corner! Are the others in the group even trying? Is there anyone who has done work on their own?</p>
<p>For control-freaks like me, the only thing worse than group members who failed to do their share on academic group projects were the group members who insisted on doing their own fair share (and invariably would not live up to my high control-freak standards). I finally figured out that I preferred to have control over group projects even if that meant I had to do 85% of the work. So maybe you are lucky that the other members let you drive the project. (Real-life group projects are completely different.)</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe I’m just too much of a control freak but group projects are just the worst unless I work with people who have super high standards like I do.</p>