The group members I worked with in Capstone were Amanda Hanna, Sharon Lieberman, Michelle Sion and Catherine Vo. Catherine was the only group member I haven’t worked with before. I have known Amanda, Sharon and Michelle since second year, and I found working with people I knew such an advantage because I had spent time getting to know them. This meant I already their attitudes towards work and commitment, and being with them always made marketing very social and fun. However, it was sometimes difficult to include Catherine, especially as she only attended uni two days a week because of part-time work. It was therefore very difficult to include her in all of our simulation meetings, and by the end of the simulation we had not really changed our group meeting approach to find a solution. However, after seeing how other groups approached their group work, I think if we specialised by product and perhaps used phone communication more, we would have accommodated Catherine’s lifestyle situation more. For more details about group work and our approach to Capstone, please refer to the Appendix, “What I Learnt from the Simulation.”
