Shout out to my PR teammates!

I am in the process of finishing up a HUGE semester long public relations campaign. It is for my capstone PR course - the class that inspired (ok required!) this blog. I was reading my teacher's blog and discovered that a member of another group in my class is not nearly as happy as I am with the progress of her project.

I have to say, I have the best group in the world. We have 11 members - that's right, you read that correctly - 11! Now while some people think "the more the merrier," I have unfortunately learned from experience that this is usually not the case. In a previous PR class, I had 7 girls in my group and we did 3 projects throughout the semester. And yes, there was the bad apple - usually every group has one. She constantly had to bicker about EVERYTHING and made working with my group a living you know what. Also, the bigger the group usually means the smaller the amount of people who actually DO the work. There are always one or two moochers who let everyone else volunteer while they just hide in the background and pray for a good final product (and that the peer evaluation doesn't count for too much. But let me tell you, after years of working in groups I am no longer afraid to give a bad score to someone who didn't pull their weight).

I am please to say that there is not a single person I would vote off of my team. Everyone is pulling their weight, we all laugh and chat about life and still get some good quality work done. I am proud of what we have accomplished so far and know that in the next few days, otherwise known as crunch time, we will produce a wonderful presentation and campaign book.

I can only hope that when I get my first PR job, or my second or even my third, that everyone is as wonderful and easy to work with as the other 10 people in my group. (Dr. Russell, I hope you are beaming by now :) - you've got some great students on your hands!)