Reflection on Group Informative Speech

Purpose:
Maintaining a high level of self-reflexivity is crucial in order to improve on any new endeavor. This includes working in small groups - a task we will engage with multiple times throughout our entire lives. The purpose of this reflection paper is to write your thoughts on the group process by applying key terms from readings, specifically as it pertains to the Group Informative Speech assignment.
Directions:
First, read Chapter 7: Communication in Small Groups and Organizations. Then, using that knowledge as your foundation, write an essay (maximum 3 pages) discussing your experience in the group process responding to the following prompts:
Satisfaction: Ultimately, how satisfied were you in achieving the goals of the project? Remember, the goals of this project were both immediate and pragmatic (complete this project successfully) and long-term and holistic (learn and practice about using research, giving evidence based speeches, and working in groups - even if this particular project was challenging).
Evolution: Using Chapter 7 as your basis, discuss the group's productivity, cohesion, and synergy. Where did the group excel, where did it fail, and where could you have done something to change the course of the outcomes in these?
Leadership: Using Chapter 7 as your basis, who emerged in a leadership role and what kind of leadership style did they utilize? Was the leadership style effective? What could you have done to create better leadership in the group?
Roles: Using Chapter 7 as your basis, what roles were fulfilled and who fulfilled them? What roles were missing? How did the distribution of roles affect the overall productivity of the group? What could you have done to achieve a better distribution of roles in the group?
The roles are:
Darya: as the leader
Jenny: recorder
Maria: information seeker
Me: helper if they need anything. For example, when Maria is having trouble with her zoom.
All of us: we encourage each other.
Reflection: There is actually a term for it: grouphate. (Links to an external site.) What can you (specifically "you" as in "the student writing this reflection," not a general "you" as in "people") do to avoid grouphate in the future?
Hints for Exceptional Work:
First, make sure you are grounding your reflection in the terms and concepts of Chapter 7 of your textbook. There are very particular ways we should be thinking about working in groups - use this way of thinking.
Second, we cannot control what other people do, we can only control what we do in an effort to influence the outcomes of responses of others. So, if at any point you say that the group would have been more successful or would have been better in any way if someone else had done something different, then you've failed. Focus on what you can do.
This is a reflection paper about our group after doing our own speeches in the group.
Note: this is our first speech, so it didn't go smoothly, or it's not perfect.