There are 4 stages in group development. The first stage is orientation. During this stage of group of development, we got to know who each person was and what they were studying. My group members were Chris Davis, Maria Agosalim, Myra Portillo, Russel Clay, and Abrahana James. Our group leader was Abrahana James, an 18 year old business major. She assigned everyone to a certain task and made sure that everything was in order. Russel Clay, a 21 year old AG Economics major, was responsible for finding the background information on our problem. Maria Agosalim, a criminal justice major, was given to the task to host interviews with the cafeteria staff and taking pictures of the food stations in the cafeteria. Chris Davis, a 19 year old psychology major, and Myra Portillo, a 19 year old business management major, were responsible for providing the group with surveys to our problem. I am an 18 year old biology major and I was responsible for typing up all of the information that was provided by each group member, printing out the Agendas, and creating the power point presentation. When it was time for our group to come up with a topic for our problem, we faced a few difficulties. Which brings us to stage 2 of group development: Conflict and tension. Our first idea for a problem was “The Cafeteria Hours.” After being assigned each part we made a decision to have our first group meeting. In the meeting we discussed the possible ideas for a problem but we faced a problem of our own. The information that each group member found did not correspond with the topic. We noticed that our topic was too broad and this caused our group members to become stressed. We had to start over from the beginning and come up with a new topic. We made a list o... ... middle of paper ... ...r audience did not have a full opportunity to express their opinions because we ran out of time. However, we still pulled it together and had a successful presentation. Working with my group was exciting, frustrating, and challenging. We did struggle with communication in the beginning. For example, some of the group members were not happy with the ideas that were picked for our problem and they didn’t voice their opinions about it. Nothing gets solved until you express how you truly feel. So we were left with group members that were unhappy and the other group members didn’t have a clue why they were upset. It took for us to have multiple meetings for us to truly understand the best way to voice our opinions without causing any unwanted issues. In the end, our group accomplished a lot of obstacles but I can honestly say I had a great experience working with them.
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The group discussion has just passed, and it was really a hard work and challenging. There were many precious lessons I got, and, hopefully, so did with my friends. Our group was consisting of four students. As a quantity, reasonably, we had had enough power to do a better work and gained a satisfying result. As I flashed back to the group discussion, it was enriching my memories. Some were in high spirit, remarkable and enjoyable. Opposite to it, few were disappointing.
1.1 Identify Key Issues and Theories Relating to Group Working and How These Were Applied in their Group
pp. 309-329, 371-393, 241-259. Engleberg, I., Wynn, D., & Schuttler, R., (2003). Working in Groups: Communication Principles and Strategies (3rd ed.) Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
For the fist couple weeks, our task group remained in the forming stage. During our first meeting, I could see that Lindsey, the assigned group leader, was not comfortable with leading. She asked for each member of the group to spend some time talking about what interest them but was not comfortable taking charge of the group. While everyone shared, Connie took over the first meeting with a topic she wanted to use because it was personally affecting her daughter. We decided to go with physical and verbal abuse with adolescents as our topic. While everyone agreed on this topic, I think it was chosen because Connie voiced her opinion
I thought the communication for the group I was in was pretty good. We worked together on the entire project and no one shot each others ideas or suggestions down, but we instead listened to what each other had to say and discussed our opinions as a group. Even when we would disagree on something I believe that we all treated each other respectfully and tried to either come up with a compromise or a majority rule of how most of the group felt on a particular issue.
However, my friend and I were playing roles to break the ice between the team. After our first meeting outside of the classroom, I found out that my group was friendlier as we started getting more comfortable with our team members. The first issue we encountered was how we should communicate to do the work. I was the person who created a group on WhatsApp and Skype in order to make the group communication more effective. The second issue we faced as a group was that we seemed to be stuck in the brainstorming stage. I could say that we spent more than two weeks in that stage just because there were lot of disagreements between team members on how we should be conducting our project. Each one had different idea and point of view. But after numerous meetings, we were finally able to come up with a detailed plan on how we were going to conduct our project, and we specifically defined each other specific
In week 7 our seminar leader allocated us into smaller groups of six to work together, get together and to start preparing for the mock debate in week 9 and the debate in week 10. When we started to get alone with each other, it was seen that it is not going to be easy to achieve our goals, not just because in our group had a strong activist, reflector, theorist and pragmatist, but we also needed to face some solvable difficulties as our first meeting of the week was cancelled by problem like the lack of communication, miscommunication and the ability to listen to another.
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 through to get to the presentation end point.
The first stage in the group work stage theory is forming a group. This stage is about the formation of a group plan. Corey and Corey (1997), describe this stage as being extremely important in terms of expressing the expectations and outcomes you will have of the group. This means that the better the planning, the better the outcome for the group and if the planning is lacking, it will show later in the group. In our particular lab group, our planning involved making a course outline for a parent help group who were having trouble with their children’s behaviour, or a group of young adults who were using drugs and alcohol. As the facilitators of the group, we had the task of coming up with a ten week plan together. Corey, Corey and Corey (2010), explain that careful thought and planning are necessary in order to lay a solid foundation for any type of group, which is something that should be considered when facilitating any of these two groups; or any other group, no matter the seriousness of the issue. The type of group that we were facilitating is known as a ‘formed group’. Garvin (1986) describes formed groups a...
“A process evaluation is an assessment, generally by group members, as to aspects of the group that were useful or detrimental. Feedback about techniques and incidents that blocked or enhanced progress is of immense value to the group leader. With this information, the leader can hone certain skills, eliminate some materials, and give direction for approaches and materials to add. Feedback can add confidence or be critical and if the feedback is highly critical, it can be humbling or devastating. It is far better to make changes suggested by the evaluation than to reject and deny the feedback and repeat the same mistakes in future groups and leaders should welcome criticism and respond constructively” (Zastrow, 2015, p.507-509).
“Careful though and planning are necessary” for the formation of any group, hence it is necessary to develop a group proposal prior to starting a group (Corey, Corey, & Corey, 2010, p. 107). A group begins with an idea that a facilitator executes. According to Peled, & Perel, (2012) “As early as when formulating the basic assumptions behind the goals, content and structure of the group intervention programs, we became aware of the challenge of striking the right balance between content delivery and facilitation of a group process.” In other words, group proposals help to orient you, hence having an outline of the group helps you have a successful group process. A group leader needs to know the proper steps to focus the group and have procedures to employ to be able to help group members reach their goals. There are five elements that can help form a group proposal: rationale for the group, objectives for the group, practical considerations, procedures, and evaluations (Corey, Corey, & Corey, 2010,p. 111-112). Having a proposal will help you run the
Overall, I feel that each member demonstrates reliability, shares the work, actively listens and responds to discussions, and treats each other in a respectful and supportive manner. Overall, I am able to safely exercise and rely on my unique knowledge and experiences when working with group members, in order to distinguish my strengths and use their skills to achieve the end goal. This is commonly put into practice when collaborating with group members or even out in the field when collaborating with school faculty members, such as counselors or teachers, for guidance when implementing and facilitating student programs. There are many times when I feel hesitant about situations, feeding my indecisiveness and procrastination.
In my experience and in this small group project I would be one of the more vocal people. By avoiding intimidating or shutting anyone out, it is important to have each person brain write to avoid any hesitation from others. In my current small group, we partake in electronic brainstorming. Each of us sat down at a computer and found articles that we thought was best fit to the solutions to the problem. After finding our articles we then posted them to google docs where we are now in the process of evaluating them. This makes it easier for everyone to find articles that connects to them. When we tired of thinking of new ideas we take a brake and talk about each other’s lives. I like to as all my groups what we plan on doing over the weekend and we also do it in our class when (Dr. Davis) asks us how our weekend was or even what is happening this weekend, giving us a break from thinking about school related items so we can start fresh. Brainstorming is important to do and is the best way to come up with the best
In the beginning of the research process planning was a necessary component. Some of the aspects that were planned was finding our main topic, which outlet we were to focus on, and collecting research material. The first step of planning that was carried out was on what was the main topic we would speak about. Rian got manipulation on social media, Mary Kate received advertisement of the past, Jaqueline received the counterargument and refutations, and finally I received manipulation on television. As we slowly started to look for research materials Mary Kate assumed the position of group leader; she was very positive and when asked gave helpful feedback. As our plans were being put into action one of the most important skills that every person need was put to the test.