For one of my final modules I am doing a group project. We can choose our teams and find our own projects but I am still wary of working with others. That’s not to say I don’t trust who I am working with, I do, but I know I am going to find it difficult after working on my own for so long.

In a previous life I worked for a leadership management and team development company. Part of the interview process was completing a Belbin questionnaire to discover my ‘type’. Apparently I am (or was at least) a teamworker/co-ordinator. I have worked with teams before at British Gas and I know I can get on well with a variety of people. Also, being a bit older (but not necessarily wiser) I am more outspoken than I was when I was in my teens and twenties so I shouldn’t really have any problems communicating ideas, questions or the like.

So why am I worried?

Because I have got used to being my own boss; working at my own pace - usually last minute unfortunately as I am great procrastinator - and being responsible for myself and noone else. I am worried that I will either be too forward and ‘take over’ or that I will coast along and let everyone else have their own way.