Are you good at working in groups?

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I'm not (actually I hate working in groups), but we do them a lot in my special ed classes, anyway.

Yes at times.

Depends who's in my group, of course.

Short-term sudden project groups: absolutely not.

Not very well, but it depends on the people.

As long as I know what's expected I'm okay. When the group leader is ambiguous I have problems.

I have no idea. I try to be nice, but it can be hard to contribute when everyone is trying to have the loudest voice in the group, both literally and figuratively.

No. I'm willing to follow along as long as we're all going the same way, but have very little patience with some people's methods.

If I know everyone in the group, yes. If it's with complete strangers, it's very, very tricky.

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I always tend to end up in the 'chosen last' group with the clueless and the person, who can neither hear nor speak well (this is a problem if we can not communicate in writing). It is EXTREMELY difficult to work with these people...

These days I'm okay. Mainly because I tend to get put in semi-leadership positions and have a good deal of control over what's going on.

It's much easier to work in groups when I'm the one with the road map.

No, I do my best work as an indivdual. It makes more sense to me if I think of ideas myself than get other peoples ideas which I may not understand what they mean.

Am I good at working in groups? With as*holes, nah. With people who are in the class because they want to be, yeah.

99% of the time, NO.
I can't stand groups. I have yet to find one where we actually succeeded and got more than sh*t done.
usually if there's groups in class I will pretend my partner is in the washroom and then do it by myself.

Haha... well the simple answer is no.

The long answer is that I have a hard time getting along with people in that situation, and have little patience for others when time is short. If the group leader's doing something I don't think is the most efficient way, I usually end up impeding group progress. If I'm the leader, things either go very smoothly or not well at all - depending usually on the patience other group members have, and how much they interrupt and question my methods... Maybe that's a bit of a double-standard, but that's the way I am I guess. My methods work well as long as I can properly communicate what I'm thinking and what my method is. Also, when I'm appointed group leader, I suck terribly at it and can't communicate my method properly. When I volunteer to be group leader (only when I know exactly what I'm doing beforehand), I usually do very well at communicating and commanding the required authority - but again it depends on the members' patience for me to explain my complex methods, and their willingness to go my way.

I can perform quite well in groups actually; although I don't tolerate it when another person in the group does absolutely nothing and just expects me to do the work. I don't think that'll be a problem in employment though.