After completing the group task of preparing a presentation on, transferring individual facilitation skills into a group work setting I will critically reflect upon my own participation. I will evaluate my self-awareness while working in the group, as well as those around me. The way that I personally dealt with any issues that arose within the group and how that affected the group dynamics. I will also briefly discuss the roles in which each member of the group took and how role allocation affected, the group dynamics and the working relationships. Finally I will evaluate my work having discussed it with my fellow group members. In order to evaluate my role within the group it is important to identify what makes a group. A group must firstly consist of more than three members, “Two members have personal relationships; with three or more there is a change in quality” of the personal relationship. (Bion 1961, p26) The group must have a common purpose or a goal in order to succeed. Having now completed my group work task, I can look back and reflect upon the process that my group went thought it get to the presentation end point. Firstly my group had to form (Kottler, Englar-Carlson 2010 p.93). There are many theories on how groups come together and the stages they go though. Tuckman is a commonly used theories due to the simple nature of his five stage theory. Tuckman believes that in order for a group to form they must go through his five stages: forming, storming, norming and performing (Tuckman 1965 p.17). In 1977 along side Jensen Tuckman added mourning to his process. Tuckman’s theory of development claims, “In the first stage of team development or organization, individuals come together to establish the ground ru... ... middle of paper ... ...in Groups and other papers. London: Tavistock Publications. BENSON, J.E. 1987. Working More Creatively with Groups. 2nd edn. London: Routledge COREY, G. COREY, M.S. CALLANAN, P. RUSSELL, J.M. 2004. Group Techniques. 3rd edn. London: Thomson Learning COREY, M.S. COREY, G. COREY, C. 2010. Groups: Process and Practice. 8TH edn. Canada: Brooks/ Cole JAMES, N. 2010. Individual and Group Work Facilitation Skills. Newport: Newport University Press. KOTTLER, J.A. ENGLAR-CARLSON, M. 2010. Learning Group Leadership, An Experiential Approach. 2nd edn. London: Sage TUCKMAN, B. 1965. Developmental Sequences in Small Groups. Psychological Bulletin 63, p 384 – 99. cited in DOEL, M. and SAWDON, C. (2001). The Essential Group Worker: Teaching and Learning Creative Group Work. London: J Kingsley. SCHNEIDER, M. 2003. Building a Team. New York: Delmar Learning
The application of these methods are seen as being a positive approach to the strong cohesion within a group, but much emphasise is put on the correct timing in which these methods are chose to be applied, to that we look back to Tuckman (1965) and the application in the correct stage of the group development
The purpose of this report is to reflect on my team working experience and to critically review the events of this experience. Throughout the process I kept a diary of events which I will be analysing in conjunction with Tuckman and Jensen’s (1977) model on stages of group development, these are: forming, storming, norming, preforming and adjourning.
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A successful team goes through five stages during its life time, with each stage team members exert different sort of pressure to work cohesively in the group. A good leader is to master the skills of team management in each stage. The five stages of team were published by Dr. Tuckman. In 1965, Dr. Tuckman published four stages and in 1970 he published the fifth stage (adjourning) in his previous publication. The five stages of team development
In making compelling groups an aide for individuals and pioneers, Wheelan endeavors to give the reader a manual that helps with building successful groups. Wheelan, a world-known creator, speaker, and expert, utilizes her insight and experience to offer exhortation on the viable arrangement of groups. The creator underlines the adequacy a gathering can achieve when cooperating as a group. She talks about the change of a work gathering to a group. Wheelan states that this book of methodologies will help the reader "discover his/her work bunches changed into elite groups". The creator inventively puts fascinating, suitable tales all through the sections to represent vital focuses to be made. She likewise utilizes agendas after every
Introduction Groups are composed of many different things. Some are highly task oriented while others are more process oriented. Groups develop to complete a task, to solve a problem, or a combination of tasks and problem solving. Development of groups begins with individuals coming together to form the group. “A group is a living entity that transcends and cannot be explained by individual experience.”
For me, the most challenging stage was “Storming.” The uncertainty of each individual and the newness of our roles created an atmosphere of anxiety. It takes time, experiences, and trials to develop trust and respect between members of the group. Fortunately, for our group it worked out well, for the most part, and we were able to progress to stage 3, “Norming” in order to reach group cohesiveness (Kinicki,
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The first chapter of “Working in Groups” focuses on group communication, the first aspect being the key elements of group communication (Engleberg and
Group processing is the fifth essential element of cooperative learning. Group processing is defined as reflecting on a group session to help students: (1) describe what member actions were helpful and unhelpful; and (2) make decisions about what actions to continue or change (Johnson et al., 1994, p.33). To achieve the group’s goals via reflection on the learning process, group processing helps improve the effectiveness of the members in contributing to the shared efforts (Yamarik, 2007). In other words, the aim of group processing is to define clearly and improve the effectiveness of the members in contributing to the joint efforts to achieve the group’s goals. There are two levels of processing: small-group and whole class. At the level
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Part I; Basic Elements of Group Process: An Overview is comprised of chapters 1-5. This section is obviously an overview of the various types of groups and discusses some general principles that can be applied in working with culturally diverse groups. Part I also covers some basic group leadership issues, ethical issues in group work, and the stages in the evolution of a group, from formation to termination and follow up.
Zurcher’s study did not try to “test any model of group development,” however; Zurcher’s results consisted of seven stages that could be altered to fit Tuckman’s four steps (Tuckman, Jensen 2010). Similar to Zurcher Smith’s observations reinforced Tuckman’s model and hypothesis. Other data that unintentionally supported Tuckman’s work held some problems, due to the addition of new members and the stage’s behavior were unclear. The group that consisted of six partners had four similar stages to “forming,” “storming,” “norming,” and “performing,” which include the “initial experience, formation of the group, optimism and partial separation, and final stage” (Tuckman, Jensen 2010). Although, Tuckman lacked data to support his model and the model came from other people’s information he had a functional model that was supported with further
The first stage in developing a team as it relates to group dynamics is forming, this is the stage where team members come together and they question what they are therefore, who else is a part of the team, who they are comfortable with, and this enables them to get involved as well as allowing the team the opportunity to introduce themselves to each other. The second stage is storming, and in this stage the team members begin to voice their opinions and differences as well as align themselves with others who share their same beliefs. This is an important stage for the team because team members will begin to become more involved with one another, and when they voice their concerns, they can feel like they are being represented and understood. The third stage is norming in the stage team members begin to establish a shared common commitment to the purpose of why the team is there, where they can establish their overall goals and how the goals are going to be achieved. In the fourth stage, known as performing, the team works effectively and efficiently to gather towards achieving the goal.
our thought process, and how we contribute to the process of group work. This involves a