Group Dynamics
What people are doing when they are together in face-to-face groups
What is communicating?
Stage one of group development
What is planning?
Authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire
What are types of leadership?
This type of leader
(1) display high levels of competency and trustworthiness
(2) inspire and motivate members with their vision
(3) stimulate independent and creative thinking among members
(4) individualize members by understanding their personal needs and goals
Transformational leader
This helps gauge the leader's skill level
Experience and training
Words or gestures that can act as signals for group members to talk more or less
What are cues?
Stage two of group development
What is beginning?
A major role of the leader to keep participants willingly engaged
What is empowerment?
These factors focus on
(1) the purposes of the group
(2) the type of problem the group is working on
(3) the environment in which the group works
(4) the group as a whole
(5) the members of the group
(6) the leader of the group
interacting factors
This is one of the most important action skills that helps decrease conflicting nature in groups
Resolving conflicts
Develop from the emotional bonds and interest alliances among subsets of group members
What are subgroups?
Stage three of group development
What is middle?
Perception among group members or others outside of the group on the individuals ability to lead
What is attributed power?
This focuses on the setting, the sponsor, and the community and social setting
The environment
This is an action skill for overcoming resistance and motivating members.
1. member to member attraction
2. a sense of unity
3. a sense of team work
What is group cohesion?
Stage four of group development
What is ending?
The workers resources for changing conditions inside and outside of the group
What is actual power?
The size of the group
This is having group members act out different roles and is a skill and is considered an action skill
Role Playing
Maypole, round robin, hot seat, and free floating
The two types of group memberships
What is open and closed?
A type of leader who displays high levels of competency, inspire and motivate members, stimulate independent and creative thinking, and individualizes members by understanding their personal needs and goals
What is a transformational leader?
When the leader is considering communication, interaction patterns, cohesion, social control, and group culture he/she is thinking of this
Group dynamics
These skills are nonverbal behaviors, such as eye contact and body position, and verbal behaviors that convey empathy, respect, warmth, trust, genuineness, and honesty. Attending skills are useful in establishing rapport as well as a climate of acceptance and cohesiveness among group members.
Attending skills