Group Observation Project

For my Group Observation Project I observed our school's baseball team because I know of the leader(the coach) and have helped out at a few of the events over the past few years I have been at state and I have attended their games throughout the past few years. Since I am also a big baseball fan, I love the game, when we were assigned this project, I immediately thought of the baseball team because I have always wondered what it is like in a college athletic team when the coach is in a meeting with the players and what goes on and how it is conducted. I found it to be a very useful exercise because as we have been discussing throughout the semester in our class how small group communication is affected in different ways and how different forms of communication are utilized in a group interaction. What I learned from this project is that how a leader carries themself is very vital because it affects the overall vibe of the room. When I observed the coach he had a nice tone, and he did a well job on communicating to the team what had gone well and didn't in past games and how players did a well job and what can be improved. What I thought was good about this project was that we got to observe at least two team meetings because sometimes seeing something for just one time may not be able to give us a clear vision of how something is and the second time may give us a more better sense of it. For me, I thought both meetings complimented each other and both were very helpful to observe. I am not sure what can be improved. I though overall this was a great project.