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In our group, I was the only new member, so there was a significant change in relationships. The other group members did not know who I was and where I came from, but they had already gotten to know each other. However, our group leader Luptia welcomed me warmly, and the rest of the group members were friendly and offered support whenever I needed it. Everyone was friendly towards me, so I did not take a lot of time adjusting to the new group and making friends with them. This helped me to feel at ease and contribute evenly to the group projects. In our group, there were different facilitators at different points in executing the tasks.

It can be assumed that our group was a leaderless one where there was no designated facilitator to be looked up to, but this was not entirely the case (Gladding, 2019). Luptia took most of the leadership roles and, most of the time, provided the direction on what to do as the group members. All group members interacted freely with Luptia because they had already formed a rapport after I was settled in the group; also, I was able to talk to the facilitator freely. This had a significant impact on the way that we tabled and executed our strategies. Being open with each other enabled us to propose our ideas without the fear of being judged by our leader, and this promoted equal participation from all the group members.

Most of the group members had already been involved in other group activities, and so interaction was more comfortable for them, and they communicated well together. On the contrary, I was the only one who was new to the group and so interacting with the other members was a challenge. I was out of the loop and didn’t know what was going on in the group before joining. Also, forming relations with them away from the groups was a challenge for me. However, they were welcoming and friendly, and after a short while, I felt that I belonged in the group. They were able to fill me in with what had been said and the group's rules, and what was expected of me as a fellow member in the group.

There were no particular power issues that I noted in the group. There was a mutual understanding between all the members, and each of them knew what was expected of them. Everything was well coordinated, and the group members did not give the leader a lot of work to coordinate them. Everything went as planned, and we all cooperated to make sure that we were abler to achieve our set objectives. We experience some technical difficulties while working on our project, and therefore we finished our work later than the assigned time. Our leader Luptia played the role of active listener to all the group members and knew all the issues and challenges the group members were facing.

She knew worked tirelessly to make sure that we had a conducive environment to complete our tasks. She also acted as a facilitator to help group members to communicate (Baker, et al, 2016). When I joined the group, she was welcoming and encourage as members to communicate and share experiences with each other. Although I had a hard time engaging in this communication, Luptia encouraged me, and I finally opened up to the rest of the group members, and I really felt like some weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I was able to communicate and interact freely with the rest of the group members. According to Gladding, group communication is vital and the group leader should facilitate the communication between group members (Gladding, 2019).

The conflict was addressed in the early stages of the group, and all the group members were requested to table any issues that they had earlier before the project started so that they could be solved. We all went through the group guidelines together and worked over any differences and views that we had. This set an environment of teamwork and helped us to avoid conflicts in the course of our group work. The leaders did not implement any specified roles for any group member. Being a reading and answering activity, we all took turns in reading the question and then all of us tried to solve these questions, getting different views from all the group members and then reaching a conclusion.

Luptia regularly took the role of a leader in our group accor5di ng to my observation, and also Rogue took more of leadership roles than those of members. For the rest of the group members, Cindy, Dawn and Nebeur all took the group member position. Each part was vital for the group's success, and collaboration between the two different roles in the group worked for us. There was free interaction between our facilitators and group members, and this encouraged teamwork.

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