Prestige Worldwide: Small Group Importance

This semester I am taking a guitar making class as an elective. In this class each there are two lab sections and each lab section is divided into two separate groups. Each group is responsible for its specific design. Everyone in the group does get their own guitar, however each guitar is the same design, the purpose of this is to help demonstrate mass production and try to get the feel for manufacturing processes and the importance of keeping them consistent. Our group chose to go with a basic acoustic dreadnought design, rather than an electric guitar, it better fit the taste of our group.

Now that I've explained a little bit of what this class is about I can get to the point of writing this blog. As we move further into the semester the faster the deadline for completion of our guitars approaches. At the beginning of the semester the idea of finishing these guitars by the end of the semester seemed like an easy task and we should have no problem with this. However, none of us had ever made a guitar before and were unaware of what all went into this process. As week after week passes by we realize how important it is that our group works together to get everything accomplished and accomplished in a timely manner. Group communication has become key to keeping on track and staying on task. I feel like being in COM 320 this semester, while also taking the guitar class, has kinda pushed me into a leadership position in this group. I feel like I have a feel for how groups should be run and know what important concepts to stress to the group.

As the semester moves on the two of these classes in unison have accelerated my abilities of participating in groups and has been very beneficial. I will definitely continue to stress concepts I learn in COM 320 in all group interactions and will help me in the future when I am working in a company group setting.

I have included a few pictures of my guitar that I am currently working on, just to show how its going