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Time Management Group Discussion
Student’s Name
Institution Affiliation
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Professor’s Name
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Introduction and Background
Groups are an essential part of society as they allow people to work together and
effectively accomplish their goals. They also allow people to share experiences and knowledge
about life and their activities. I have previously led a group of classmates in studying, but I have
never led a group of people in the process of sharing their personal stories. Therefore, I chose a
group of fellow teammates whom we have spent a great deal of time playing in the field but do
not know each other closely on a personal level. In addition, I chose to talk about time
management and get to know various skills that can improve time management as it will be
beneficial to both academic and social lives.
The Group Context
I have been active in sporting activities for a while, and it is in these activities, I met
friends that I have been working with closely. They are the people I play with in the field every
other day, but our relationship has been mainly on the field and not off the field. So I decided to
make a group of five people where we could talk in detail about time management. The key goal
is to understand how each of us deals with time management and which skills are used (Straus,
2017). We can also check on what works and what does not work to effectively decide on what
we can practice more actively in the future.
The group I chose consists of a total of five teammates. In addition, I chose four people
that I play with within the team and decided to form a group for this assignment. I would want
the group to continue existing after the initial meeting as planned, but I will wait to see those
matters later. The group is open for membership by other people depending on whether they
wish to join. Participation in the group is voluntary, and individuals can join or leave as they
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wish. The environment is meant to be a friendly one, and the exchanges are expected to be both
personal and informative.
The Setting
The meeting will be held on the benches in the school compound and will involve people
sitting around discussing the various issues affecting them concerning time management. The
date of the meeting is 15th June 2021, and it will be held at 3 pm. The meeting will last three
hours and will end at 6 pm. There will be some sodas and snacks to make the meeting more
comfortable and less stressful for the various participants. The drinks will also help keep us
hydrated, enabling us to talk for longer and express our thoughts and experiences.
I expect five participants, including myself, to lead the group as we talk about time
management skills and the best tactics to help improve the work. All of my friends are male, and
they are aged between 20 and 23 years. Two of them are white, one is Latino, and one is black. I
will consider all these differences to have effective communication (Fandrejewska et al., 2018).
They all live around the campus, and thus, the meeting is not a challenge as they can all walk to
the meeting point. They are all friends that I met through sports, and I have maintained a good
friendship with them. The communication about the meeting will be made through phones, and I
will call each one of them individually as I have their phone numbers.
Meeting Goal and Norms
The fundamental goal of the meeting is to talk about the skills and tactics that individual
people use to manage their time. Each person will have an opportunity to talk about the skills
they use daily to manage their time, and this will be followed by checking what works best and
what does not work. We will also discuss the changes people face when managing their time and
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the most effective tactics for dealing with them. In general, we will check the time management
issues that we all face and develop practical solutions to help our social and academic issues.
The warm-up activity will be talking about the most memorable games and the sporting
activities that we remember. The process will include talking about how fun the games were and
the role that timing had in the success or failure of the various games. I will need to
communicate the need to have an understanding and caring approach to the listening of the
various views individuals will have. I will also explain my role as a moderator and the privacy
that will follow where none of the identities will be revealed concerning their stories. I will also
tell them how we will discuss rotation and how each person will be expected to speak before
going to the next member.
Meeting Content and Process
The first round of talks will cover the various life experiences where individuals may
have best managed their time and its impact on the various activities in the meeting. The second
round will involve talking about the difficulties that each one of us has faced in the process of
trying to manage our time (Wolters et al., 2017). The third section will involve people giving
their thoughts and ideas about the other members’ experiences and receiving ideas for their
thoughts as they may have contributed. This session may involve more of a conversation
between people and be free for all to talk.
The last section will be more of reflection by all the members where each member will be
free to say what they have learned and what knowledge they feel will add to their ability to
manage time. The group will also highlight what we feel works for all people and the most
prominent issues that all the people may be facing when trying to manage their time more
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effectively. Among the material that I will distribute is a full-scale and a pen that will allow each
participant to write down the most valuable things and then use them for future reference. With
this process, I suppose we will cover most, if not all, the issues.
Timeline for the Session
The first part will be talking about the games and warming up for the meeting. It should
take the first 20 minutes as the individuals will also be catching up about their day. The sodas
and Doritos will be shared out at this stage so that all the people can get comfortable on their
spot. The first section will take 40 minutes, with each person getting about eight minutes to talk
and express themselves. It will be followed by the second section, which will also be expected to
take the same time. Not each participant will take precisely eight minutes to talk, and so the
spare minutes that are found from this process will be used for taking breaks.
The third section will follow, and this will also take forty minutes as people share their
thoughts about what we just discussed and the ideas they feel should be represented more in the
activities they undertake. The last session will then follow and will also take 40 minutes. In total,
each person will get adequate time to talk about themselves and their time management
processes while also getting to hear other people’s ideas that may be beneficial in one way or the
other. Finally, the last session will end with light moments and jokes, and we will part ways after
three hours.
Conclusion
I chose to talk about time management and get to know various skills that can improve
time management as it will be beneficial to both academic and social lives. I am very excited
about the meeting because it will serve as an opportunity to learn more about the personal lives
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of some of my friends. The meeting also has a chance of having a lifelong benefit in better time
management skills and increasing productivity when working on a day-to-day basis (Moneva et
al., 2020). I am open to making changes to the timing of the meeting depending on the
availability of my friends. The communication we will have will guide the setting of the meeting
time and any other factors.
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References
Fandrejewska, A., & Wasilik, K. (2018). Cultural differences and barriers in communication and
functioning of an international organisation. Handel Wewnętrzny, (1 (372)), 203-215.
Moneva, J. C., & Pedrano, J. P. M. (2020). Democratic Leadership and Attitude towards Time
Management of the Student Leaders. International Journal of Learning and
Development, 10(1), 159-175.
Straus, D. A. (2017). Managing meetings to build consensus. In Multi-Party Dispute Resolution,
Democracy and Decision-Making (pp. 389-425). Routledge.
Wolters, C. A., Won, S., & Hussain, M. (2017). Examining the relations of time management
and procrastination within a model of self-regulated learning. Metacognition and
learning, 12(3), 381-399.
