Participation
-Encouraging contributions from low participators
-Make issues and problems for discussion relevant to the interest of low participators
-Give low participators responsibility for certain tasks
-Establish a cooperative group project
What are ways to increase participation
A search tool that combines internet technology and standard library techniques
Virtual Library
Repeats cycles of focusing on the problem, then the solution and back again to the problem.
Complex cyclic.
Unclear purpose
Unpreparedness
Start and end times
What are common ineffective meetings examples?
Creativity and problem solving have the following:
Creativity is more perspiration than inspiration
Creativity is spurred by challenges
Creativity flourishes in cooperative, not competitive environments
What is the creative process?
Individualism stresses individual goals and the rights of the individual person. Collectivism focuses on group goals, what is best for the collective group, and personal relationships. An individualist is motivated by personal rewards and benefits
What is individualistic vs. collectivist participation
Most important step of decision making
Gathering information
Although is popular, the quality of the group’s decision is a particularly troublesome problem.
What is majority rule, tyrannical.
Is appropriate for large, formal groups (the U.S. Senate) and even a few smaller groups with formal responsibilities (boards of directors), but for most small groups the rules are too rigid and artificial
Parliamentary Procedure
Do not engage in task-irrelevant discussion
Stay focused on the topic
What is one of the creative techniques while brainstorming in a group ?
Giving low participators certain tasks helps with...
Increasing Participation
Fake news is ___ more likely to be retweeted than real news.
70%
It tends to be more productive and result in better discussion that relatively unstructed discussions.
what is being Systematic.
Don’t call a meeting unless there is no good alternative
Contact every participant
Prepare a clear agenda and distribute it to all participants a few days in advance of the meeting.
Use procedural communication to accomplish group goals
Reserve a few minutes at the end to determine whether the objectives of the meeting were accomplished.
Distribute the minutes of the meeting as soon as possible.
Ways to conduct an effective meeting:
Individuals work by themselves generating lists of ideas on a problem, then come together as group and write them out on a whiteboard, discussion is to clarify ideas, then individuals rank their five best ideas, this helps ideas better develop rather than brainstorming
What is a second problem-solving method; Nominal group technique
The most important part of participation
What is quality
Five criteria for evaluating Information
Credibility, currency, relevance, representativeness, sufficiency.
Groups have different ays on tackling group discussions
What is task, relational, and topic.
Members should address the troublesome behavior
What if a member complains inappropriately, drifts off task, criticizes other members, or dominates discusion?
Groups members sit at a computer/ file sharing procedure. This offers creativity
What is electronic brainstorming?
Type of participation culture that is valued in the U.S.
Individualist
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers __________ a hate group for propagating falsehoods against the LGBTQ+ community
American College of Pediatricians
Problem Identification i the first step of what.
what is standsards agenda, structuring group discussions.
Similar equivalent in our small group meetings to the agenda and minutes
What is Progress Reports
The creative process of breaking a mindset by describing the problem from a different frame of referance. ___- how language shapes our perception of choices.
What is reframing and framing in the process?