I have to be honest and say that right now, even though I have spent all week thinking about it, I cannot think of a group that was hard for me to leave. I learned something from each group I was a part of, based either on how much harder I had to work to make up for those that didn't or who I didn't think would work but yet they did. I gained different insights from a group project than those given by the teacher of the class as we often had to go beyond what we knew. Group experiences that I can recall were not positive experiences for me, except when I could be a part of a group of my choice in which case I was a part of a group I was friends with, so there was no good-bye stage.
For this Master's degree program, as each course closes, I have thanked each group of colleagues I have worked with and wished them all well. I believe that I will continue to do this as each course ends bringing each of us closer to completion. I think the adjourning stage of team development provides closure but unfortunately for me a lot of the groups I was a part of never fully made it through the five stages and members were just grateful to not have to work with each other any longer.
That is very good that you learn something from the groups that you were in. It is dad that you had to work harder to make up from the group members did not do. Did you enjoy what you did? How did you feel about make up for the ones that did not do their project?
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