You are working at the M-Global office in Fullerton and have recently been appointed to a group project on technical research. Your objective is to report and evaluate problems that your group has experienced in your group meetings.

WRITING TASK: Write an informal report to Mrs. Chen describing problems encountered regarding the meetings in detail. Be specific about how the problems affected the group-performance, progress, team members, and so on. The following are some examples of problems that could be evaluated (you must choose from at least three of the bullet points given below).

• Meeting: cannot agree on location and/or time

• Difficult to get the meeting started

• Tasks not being completed by deadlines

• Collaboration: working together, individualism, commitment, member(s) not contributing

• Responsibility: misunderstandings about responsibilities, member(s) coming unprepared, and one /two member do all the work

• Ineffective communication

• Decision making: ideas are not thoroughly discussed as a team

• Harmonization: clashes of personality, conflict between team members, dominant personalities

• Effectiveness: workload allocations, skills utilization

• Accomplishment: usefulness of meetings, group progress

Once the problems have been understood and evaluated, provide recommendations on how such problems could be handled in future group meetings.

Note: The body of the memo should have at least three components:

• Identification of problems with the meetings

• How these problems affected the meetings

• Recommendations on how to resolve these problems so their effects are minimized in future group meetings

Be honest; whatever you say in this memo will help the group to progress and perform better in future meetings. More importantly, it will not affect the grades of your group members.